The Trip to Bangkok

Monday last, after a rather busy day as some friends and I are were watching the kids play on the jungle gym and talking we all of a sudden heard about 10 nanny's shrieking at the top of their lungs.  We look over and Mattie is also shrieking and holding her arm which looks like it has been bent backwards.  We rushed to the nurse who happened to be on the other campus, then we rushed to SOS International.  A good friend of ours, Anjali, called ahead to let them know we were on our way and we booked it!.  Turns out Mattie has a green stick fracture in both bones in her arm.  The doctor informed us that he could not set them properly so we need to see an Orthopedic surgeon in Bangkok.  Luckily for us there was a representative of the hospital in Phnom Penh, so we gave her a call.  She set up the flight, the ride from the airport to the hospital and organized a room for us.  We were on a plane by 8pm and in Bangkok at 9pm.  We made it to the hospital saw the Orthopedic surgeon not long after we arrived.

This was Mattie before the surgery at the airport in Bangkok.  She looks pitiful but she wasn't in that much pain due to the codeine.

After seeing the doctor, he told me what we would be doing...breaking the bone completely and re-setting it.  I could stay with Mattie through everything...I chose to step out during the breaking and we would do this early the next morning, or rather 4 hours from the time that we were talking.


We made it to our room, got a few hours sleep and had a very successful bone setting the next morning.  By 3pm we were out of the hospital and to the airport.  by 7pm we were back in Cambodia.

They had a McDonald's at the hospital!!! 

Life is grand again.