18/4/16 Cast off , Cast on

  Groundhog day , raining again !! We get up & get organised , then take Lyn down to the hospital for the all important checkup ........
 I dropped Lyn at the front of the hospital and headed back to finish packing & hitching the van .
All hitched and packed and emptied , I headed back down the road and parked , then wandered into the hospital emergency department .
 Xray done , we waited for the nurse practitioner to call us in , which they did after a while . They then proceeded to cut the cast off . Lyn had some relief when the cast finally came off , it was short live however , as her wrist started to hurt , and was sore to touch in places !!
 Time for another Xray , and back into the emergency dept again . We waited as the Xray was developed and delivered the 15m to emergency . We got to give the arm a wash , which was some more relief for Lyn , the pain was subsiding a bit as well .
 The nurse practitioner was chatting to the resident doctor , they were discussing the Xray . They said it was 6 weeks to repair the break for a child/ teenager , but half that again for mature people , then even longer for older people . The break had healed nicely in the middle of the break , but not so well on the outside edges of the break , so that meant another cast for another couple of weeks !!
 Not the news we were looking for , but it could have been much worse !!
Jerome - our nurse practitioner - was great , he then applied a fibreglass cast , that is much lighter and far less bulky , and Lyn's hand is now in a more natural position - much more comfortable !!
 With that done , we headed north through Caballing , Yornaning , Popanyinning , Pingelly , Brookton , Kokeby , Beverley , East Beverley , Greenhills and finally Malebelling . I think we got all the ings covered there !!! We pulled in at White Gums for a few days - we were here earlier - late January .
 We did stop in Brookton for some shopping and lunch , it's a small town , more of a regional shopping point for the farmers etc .
 We surprised Angela & Franz , it was nice to see them again , Garth came over for a chat as well . After chatting for a while , it started to cool off , so we put jumpers back on and set up camp . The park has been improved since we were here last - there are a few more sites , the amenities are all finished and functioning , the garden is growing - tomatoes were out ( most are green ) , there is a large concrete pipe on end that is used as a worm farm / compost heap , and a few more tracks have been made . Fences have been put between sites and caravan clubs are utilising the park regularly .
 That's it for today , sorry no photo's , but here's map link :-https://drive.google.com/open?id=11ju9EaJvFv-zy9Kg7gx005WSF2U&usp=sharing