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Oh well --- you can't win 'em all, I suppose. For certain very specialist meanings of the word 'win'? When I was about six or seven I fell over in the playgrou

Oh well --- you can't win 'em all, I suppose. For certain very specialist meanings of the word 'win'? When I was about six or seven I fell over in the playground, sliding on ice, and managed to hit the side of my right wrist against the edge of a concrete slab, and gave myself a greenstick fracture. Despite complaining that it hurt, the teachers at the school didn't think there was anything wrong with me, and it was only after school that my father felt my wrist and decided there was a notch there, and I went to the hospital. That wasn't the most annoying bit. The most annoying bit was that, while spending the day at school writing with a broken arm, all the teachers commented on how much my handwriting had improved.

shakna 10y ago
Ow. That'd irritate the crap out of me. My teachers weren't sure how to treat me on return: I was still re-learning walking, after being bed-ridden for 5 weeks. So some kind of let me get away with anything, and the others expected me to try harder to catch up. But again: The school didn't think there was anything wrong with me at first, probably just winded. Then I started puking blood everywhere. Great way to get people to actually listen to a kid. Also, what is it with not trusting kids with pain? I developed pains in my leg in Year 9. More than a decade later, and my specialists think that was the first symptom of either MS or one of the fibro family. I know lots of kids complain about minor aches and pains... But give it a bit of attention would you?