shots = horrible

Kindergarten shots.  OMG.  Thank goodness it's over and we don't have to do it again until 6th grade.

Dr appointments in general with a sensory kid are miserable.  B had his headphones on from the minute we walked in the door.  He wouldn't let anyone weigh him (he's afraid of the scale).  He wouldn't let anyone see how tall he is.  Luckily my mom and dad have a medicine scale at their house so I weighed him when we were there for Easter.  36.5 pounds - 10th percentile, baby!  The highest he's been since he was born!!!  And you can FORGET about listening to his heart - at one point he was so strong that he was able to push Josh's arm away while Josh was helping hold him down in my lap.  But all that made him sob so hard that he didn't notice the dr. listening on B's back to his heart. :)  No way Jose to the pulse ox machine, and no way was he going to take off his headphones to look in the ears.

There's a reason our appointments always take a full hour.

And then came the shots.  OH MY GOODNESS.  I had him chest to chest on my lap and Josh was holding down the poor kid too - and the scream that came out of that child's mouth when whatever went into his left arm hit - I flinched, it was so loud.  I felt soooo bad for the doctor because his head was right there too.  The nurse did a shot in one arm and then she and the dr. team tagged the next two so they happened at the same time.  Hysterical child. HYSTERICAL.  And then they put on bandaids, which hurt my B-man, and I didn't think to tell them that until he had already ripped them off and thrown them on the floor.  That's how mad he was.

One slurpee and a lay down on a pillow on the couch later, he was much better.  So much better, in fact, that we went to the park after dinner.  He caught a ball and landed on his right arm, and that's when he asked, "Mom, did I get two shots?"  Apparently that left arm one hurt so bad it made him forget about the other two, as he was quite shocked when I told him he had three!

But for real. I'm glad that's done.