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Originally Posted by Jay
My twin girls are 4 1/2, shots were hard for me then too. Looking back now, that was the easy part - but understand, when they hurt, you hurt.....
At 10 weeks old one my girls got a really high fever, they insisted on spinal tap to check for meningitis. My wife walks out because she's loosing it, takes my other daughter with her. Right before the shot, DR brings in all these waivers, on how they are not responsible if there is a problem with the spinal tap - talk about freaking out... 
At 3 years olds, same daughter, had an infection in her leg (we suspect from spider bite) that has to be surgically removed before it becomes septic. She has to be put under - another day I will never forget.
Wait until she has her first good fall, or bump on the head.
** I take it back, it never gets any easier** LOL |
I remember getting a call when my daughter was about two. Due to our work schedules she had to go to child care for about three hours a day.
I got a call at work that the sitter had been holding her hand while she was trying to walk. My daughter fell, and since one hand was being held she could not put her hands in front of her and she smashed her chin into the floor causing her two lower teeth to go in front of the two upper teeth, which resulted in the two lower teeth now being perpendicular to her face. In other words, they stuck out horizontally.
I raced over to the sitter, picked up the kid and met my wife at the doctors. The two teeth would have to come out. The question was, do we give her a local or just yank them. I decided I did not want unnecessary drugs injected in her, so I wrapped her up tight in a blanket and held her while the doc pulled them. The wife stayed in the outer office.
Fletch, this reminds me of a hot tip. Go buy a red washcloth. They come in very handy for incidents like this because blood does not show up on them and blood scares the crap out of them.
You can thank me later.