When an adult has a heart transplant they are often in the hospital for a month or more and it is weeks and weeks of painful recovery. When a toddler has a heart transplant, they normally have to keep them heavily sedated so they don't hurt themselves, and then when they are awake, they tend to be ready to go like nothing happened.
What I am saying is, kids have an incredible ability to not only heal faster than adults, BUT they also are amazing at "getting over" the pain that adults tend to feel and fear.
I know this isn't the same, but my baby finger doesn't go straight and the finger next to it has a "scar" almost two inches long on the palm side. My fingers were slammed in the car door when I was about 3. I SCREAMED bloody murder. My dad checked me, kissed it better, and I stopped crying and continued on like nothing had happened. I didn't have any serious swelling or bruising and since I was "acting fine" I wasn't brought to the Dr. Years later, when I was a teen, I asked my dr about my baby finger not going straight and explained this incident. He examined it and said that the car door had partially cut a ligament and that didn't heal correctly, and that the scar on my finger was never from an open wound, but rather the tissue inside of that finger having been pinched so badly. He also said if I had done that as an adult, a kiss wouldn't have made it better. The only thing that would have helped would have been surgery. I still have the option of surgery for my baby finger, but it doesn't affect me at all or have any type of pain.
Long story short, kids are so resilient that it's a great survival tactic for a hunting/gathering nomadic era where animal predator would sniff out an injured child or adult, but in our current era of clinics and medical procedures, all it does is allow abuse, neglect and accidents to appear to not be that bad.
How one can go about with a fractured femur or tibia is beyond me... but Sini had access to drugs as a nurse to help with pain, the court asked about Sherin wearing orthopedics of some sort in her shoes, so any limping could have been brushed off as forgetting that, and any pain she may have complained about to someone else, like a sunday school teacher, could have easily been brushed off as part of her developmental delays. Sherin wouldn't have known to say her leg was broken but mommy and daddy didn't bring her to the dr cuz they didn't want to get in trouble, again.
JMO and GRRR
