The wrong sort of Christmas break!

One evening this week I had a telephone call from Eden to say they had a 'situation' and needed my advice. It turned out that Amber had been coming down the stairs and slipped on the third one from the bottom and fell awkwardly on her foot so consequently was in a lot of pain and they wanted to know what was the best thing to do.
I'm used to diagnosing over the phone for Sarah, when the children were small she would ring up to say one or the other had a rash so I would ask her to describe it and then advise her over the phone. Being a nurse in the past sometimes has it's downsides but I think that's where they got the idea for NHS Direct!
Anyway, I asked Eden if she could gently move Amber's ankle, then each toe but it was obvious from the yelling in the background that it was very painful. I said that she would need to keep her foot up and pack it with something out of the freezer but Sarah had done that so I told her I thought she would need to go to casualty at the local hospital and would have to have an X-ray. From what Eden described it sounded as though Amber may have broken a small bone in the foot but without seeing her I couldn't be sure but I did say she may need a plaster cast up to the knee.
A little while later Eden rang to let me know that they had been to the hospital and Amber had been given crutches but she would have to go back in the morning for the X-ray. The following evening they rang again to say that she hadn't broken anything but when I spoke to her she was still in a lot of pain.
Today when I spoke to Eden she said the hospital had rang because the X-ray had been sent on to the RUH at Bath and Amber had broken a small bone in the foot so she had to go back to be plastered. Amber now has a cast to the knee, just in time for Christmas!