2 wobbly children, one of which lives life at a rate of knots and crashes into everything, are a recipe for disaster. So, I guess it was just a matter of time before we ended up in Accident and Emergency. The accident itself seemed trivial enough, just a stumble whilst playing (the physio had been trying to teach our daughter to walk backwards earlier that day!) but she must have fallen awkwardly. It took a few hours for me to realise something was really up as she just went quiet and wanted a cuddle all the time so I thought she must be sickening, by which time I had to text my husband to get him back from a Larry Carlton gig so that I could have the car for the inevitable run down to casualty. Listening to an old lady who'd had a brandy and fallen out of bed helped pass the time (!) and an hour and a half later we marched off to the X-Ray department for a scan, the results of which showed a fractured collarbone in our daughter's left shoulder. 6 weeks of trying to keep a child with probable ADHD and Dyspraxia from crashing into a wall and causing more damage sounds like a problem from the Krypton Factor to me. She must be on the up though because today she dived off the settee and crashed on the floor, fortunately with no lasting consequences!

The biggest worry I have at the moment about this is that our son might thump or push our daughter during one of their frequent spats. We were due to meet the community behavioural psychologist regarding our son's possible autism at some point, but I was fortunate enough to get a cancellation for late last week. I was hoping for some advice on behavioural management strategies but he spent the whole hour asking us questions about our son whilst our daughter performed tricks sitting on the floor, as best as you can with your arm in a sling anyway!. This must be the hundredth time we've had to go through every detail with a new health professional, I feel like just taping the whole thing, marching in, dumping the tape on the consultant's lap and marching out sometimes. The end result was that he probably has a borderline diagnosis of autism (nothing new there then) and no behavioural advice at all. Meanwhile our daughter was attempting to reprogramme John's PDA by bashing it and the consultant commented "aah, she's got it all hasn't she. It's a shame she's not cute", quickly followed by "but of course she is gorgeous"! What was that all about? I honestly think he was trying to wind us up to breaking point so he could take John and I on as clients and make more money!