A large number of the pediatric admissions to the University Teaching Hospital are for orthopedic trauma. We were told by the surgical teams that this time of year is mango season, and the children will climb into the mango trees to pick the mangos. Hornets also like to nest in mango trees, so if the child disturbs the hornets, they get frightened and fall out of the tree, and break something. Like a femur. Or a humerus. And, because this 900 bed hospital with 1200 patients and 4 functional operating rooms has very few orthopedic surgeons they fix this fractures with weeks and weeks and weeks of traction. The good news is the kiddos really aren’t in pain. The bad news is they are bored. So, Miss Julie, the head of our Social Committee decided to intervene because they were really cute. All we really had to give them were ‘Copa highlighters and paper, which they loved, we took some goofy pics, and visited them everyday.
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