Dr. Doom
Today I am taking Lily and Ella to a new pediatrician. We've had some trouble with insurance so they haven't been to the doctor in quite a long while! I know, I'm a terrible mom.
But I finally got them back on and it's a pretty good one, so I won't be sitting in some ghetto place with a hundred other people waiting to see some doctor they won't ever have again for about 5 minutes. Been there, done that. I want something better for my kids! I want them to have a Ped who actually knows them and will recognize something wrong because of that relationship.
This new dr is only 3 minutes away, which is really nice.
They agreed to take both my girls at the same time, which is also very nice.
Most other places we've been they don't :(
Lily was set on inoculations until she turned four, which she did yesterday, so now she's due for some more, I think 4! And Ella is probably behind on her shots, poor thing :(
The problem is that Lily is TERRIFIED of going to the doctor.
When she was pretty young she went to the ER twice, once to get a gash in her forehead glued (if she was older it would have been stitches) and once to see if her finger that got mangled in the treadmill was broken (it wasn't, just the skin shredded... ouch!)
Anyway, both of these things were pretty traumatic for her, the doctors and I had to pretty much hold her down to get anything done, and ever since then she is soooo scared to have anything to do with doctors.
When I told her we were going last week, the first thing she said was "Are they gonna shot me?"
Awww :( She equates Dr's with pain and nothing else. This first visit back I wanted to be super nice and easy, just a check up to see how's she's grown and that kind of thing.
If I take her to the dr for the first time in a long time and it hurts and is 'scary',
I just know that future visits are going to be like WWIII.
I'm thinking that maybe I will ask them to reschedule her shots for a different time so that this once it's not scary for her. I'm pretty sure Ella needs shots too though...
I just don't know what the right thing to do here is!
I begggged Johnny to come with me because it's going to be pretty difficult to handle both at once by myself, especially if Lily is so anxious and scared. He just took off two days this past weekend and had to leave early Monday while I was at work because Gail didn't 'feel good'... His work is pretty mad about that. But he promised me he would take an early lunch and meet me there.
I'm trying not to let any anxiety of my own show because the kids pick up on that pretty quickly. And I've promised stickers and playground for a successful dr visit today.
Not sure what else to do!
Wish me luck, I guess...
But I finally got them back on and it's a pretty good one, so I won't be sitting in some ghetto place with a hundred other people waiting to see some doctor they won't ever have again for about 5 minutes. Been there, done that. I want something better for my kids! I want them to have a Ped who actually knows them and will recognize something wrong because of that relationship.
This new dr is only 3 minutes away, which is really nice.
They agreed to take both my girls at the same time, which is also very nice.
Most other places we've been they don't :(
Lily was set on inoculations until she turned four, which she did yesterday, so now she's due for some more, I think 4! And Ella is probably behind on her shots, poor thing :(
The problem is that Lily is TERRIFIED of going to the doctor.
When she was pretty young she went to the ER twice, once to get a gash in her forehead glued (if she was older it would have been stitches) and once to see if her finger that got mangled in the treadmill was broken (it wasn't, just the skin shredded... ouch!)
Anyway, both of these things were pretty traumatic for her, the doctors and I had to pretty much hold her down to get anything done, and ever since then she is soooo scared to have anything to do with doctors.
When I told her we were going last week, the first thing she said was "Are they gonna shot me?"
Awww :( She equates Dr's with pain and nothing else. This first visit back I wanted to be super nice and easy, just a check up to see how's she's grown and that kind of thing.
If I take her to the dr for the first time in a long time and it hurts and is 'scary',
I just know that future visits are going to be like WWIII.
I'm thinking that maybe I will ask them to reschedule her shots for a different time so that this once it's not scary for her. I'm pretty sure Ella needs shots too though...
I just don't know what the right thing to do here is!
I begggged Johnny to come with me because it's going to be pretty difficult to handle both at once by myself, especially if Lily is so anxious and scared. He just took off two days this past weekend and had to leave early Monday while I was at work because Gail didn't 'feel good'... His work is pretty mad about that. But he promised me he would take an early lunch and meet me there.
I'm trying not to let any anxiety of my own show because the kids pick up on that pretty quickly. And I've promised stickers and playground for a successful dr visit today.
Not sure what else to do!
Wish me luck, I guess...