Sympathy Pains
August 11 2010 Abby had her 2 year well-child doctor visit this past Monday, which is also the day we registered my oldest for school, which is a huge fail in parenting in itself but hopefully all works out in the end. Really, I don’t even want to go there.
Before we registered him, though, my daughter had her appointment of torture where she was poked and prodded and not having any of it. She screamed like only she can do, filling the entire office area. The boys came along and they initially sat contently and watched in fascination, fortunate in the knowledge that it wasn’t for them. In fact, when the doctor walked in, Jedi quickly piped up and declared, “Only Abby’s getting a shot today”.
To which she did. A single vaccination.
Upon witness of the nurse carrying that one syringe into the room, though, both of the boys cowered. Buzz hid completely under their desk while Jedi scrunched himself into a defensive ball, like a roly poly. It’s amazing the trauma and fear a needle can project.
When Abby cried, Jedi flinched but Buzz cried real tears with her. She hollered for good reason, but so did Buzz. She was fine almost immediately after, while it took plenty of coaxing to pry him out of hiding. Leave it to her brother to steal her thunder. From the look of it as we finally left the room, it would appear he was the one who had the rough morning.
Her brothers felt her pain, dramatic movie of the week style, and it hurt. Though nothing a cherry-flavored sucker and handful of stickers couldn’t fix.
9 Responses
on August 11 2010
I can only conclude based on this and my own experiences as a mom, that needles really hurt kids a helluva lot more than they hurt adults. Pretty cute story.
on August 11th, 2010
@jesser, I have to say I’m not very fond of them either.
on August 11 2010
I love that the boys sympathized with her. Such a moment. Hope they are all now playing and having some fun.
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on August 11th, 2010
@Rudri Patel, They were, but my daughter seems to have come down with a cold. Most likely from the vaccination.
on August 11 2010
My nephew was born when I was five and for some reason me and my mom took him to get some of his shots. I remember vividly when the nurse gave him his shot and he started crying and I just cried and cried, so upset that they’d hurt the baby.
on August 11th, 2010
@Crystal, Aw, that’s sweet. But it ruins my dream that they acted like that just because they really care about their sister.
on August 11 2010
It’s possible that this will work to our advantage when they are teenagers. But I suppose equally possible not.
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on August 11 2010
My worst mommy move yet was when I took my then 4 year old to her sister’s two month check up one week before we went back for the 4 year check up. That first day went fine, the little one soothes easily. But, the second appointment. Oh, it sounded like we were murdering our kids. And that was just getting her weight. One would scream, the other would join in. After two or three hours of screaming, we finally got to leave.
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on August 12 2010
Aw, sweet (melodramatic) Buzz! By the time she’s old enough to hear/understand this story, she’ll be so thoroughly the 3rd child that she won’t even see the point.
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