"So lucky to have such dedicated professional staff"

On Friday my son attended day surgery to have an external fixater removed and a plaster fitted to his broken leg.

Sam broke his leg whilst performing a move on his stunt scooter back in October.  He was taken by ambulance to Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride where they diagnosed a broken leg, both tibia and fibula, with a particularly nasty spiral fracture.

Sam was put in plaster at Hairmyres and we were advised he would need surgery the next day.  We were given the choice to transfer to the Children's Hospital which we did.

Sam was seen by Mr Rowlands at the Children's Hospital who performed his surgery in October and the subsequent surgery to remove the external fixater in January.  I can only describe Mr Rowlands as exceptional.  He has been extremely professional throughout and has built up an excellent rapport with our family and importantly Sam who has found this experience fairly traumatic at times.  Mr Rowlands explained everything to both Sam and ourselves in language that we could understand and always asked if we had any questions that we needed to ask.

The support from the physio (Shona) and other staff on the ward has also been excellent, keeping Sam in good spirits and attending to his needs at all time.  We are so lucky to have such dedicated professional staff at all levels in our NHS, thank you.