Last night I had to take my 6 year old daughter into the local urgent care. It seems my stellar skillz as mother are not at stellar as one might think. A wound on her arm (inflicted by beauty bark 4 days ago) grew to the size of a roma tomato between the hours of 9 and 7 yesterday…
But that’s not what I was thinking about. I was thinking this:
WHY are there no CLOCKS in WAITING rooms?
Which naturally progressed my mind toward my next thought:
Speaking of waiting… I find it a bit curious that the people in WAITING rooms are called PATIENCE PATIENTS.
Just had my thinkin’ cap on… again. I look pretty cute in a tight fitting thinking cap… I bet I’d look pretty cute in one of those little white jackets with the arms the tie behind the back.
***Olivia is doing fine, by the way. She screamed and kicked and was the bravest a 6 year old girl could be considering she was given 2 shots, lanced, then that owie had the dickens squozed out of it… and then to add insult to injury – the doctor packed it! Schnikies! I was so proud of my girl. And while I was busy being proud of her I was also busy not vomiting, though it would have been easy to do. I was also busy not passing out, though that would also have been very easy to do. As soon as I knew Livi was on the upswing, I turned onto my butt, cried, caught my breath, nearly stripped naked for I was boiling hot! And let my stomach regain it’s composure. Whew, it’s hard seeing your babies suffer.***
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That is awful! I’m so glad that she is okay now. Good for you for staying strong for her when she needed it! My husband would definitely have passed out!
You are so right. Watching your child be in pain is the worst thing in the world. I’m glad she is OK.
Ooooh, icky. Good for you for holding it together for your girl.
I hope Miss Olivia is doing okay.
Poor Olivia! And Poor You!!!
That sucks royally to have to be at the Urgent Care for anything. It Double Royally Sucks to have to see your little girl suffer.
I am glad you made it through.
Yikes! I got the So Not the Mom of the Year award myself once a couple of years ago….my daughter kept insisting that the white board at school was blurry (but only with the red pen). Her teacher said she wasn’t squinting to see anything. I was pretty sure it was my kid’s ploy to move seats away from the boy she was sitting next to. 6 months later is when we all realized what a caring and supportive mother I was when the school vision test recommended that my kid see an eye doctor. The eye doctor informed this all-knowing-ever-concerned mom that her daughter couldn’t see clearly beyond her outstretched arm.
Go me!
Not as painful as your situation but I really felt like crap for not listening to my girl.
Go bake a cake and you and Olivia can it by the row and feel good about it!
Oh Jenny, I’m so sorry you and Liv had to go through all that! I’m relieved and happy to hear that she’s going to be ok! SUPER BIG HUG!
It really is hard seeing our kids suffer. Poor baby had to go through a lot! I’m glad she’s ok.
Should I be embarrassed to ask what beauty bark is?
A HUGE hug and kiss for Livi…and her mommy, too!!!
Ohh… I’m assuming that beauty bark is that stuff they put under the bushes and shrubs, right? I used to get splinters from playing with that stuff. We would use it as ammunition! ;)
I’m impressed with your ability not to vomit nor to pass out. I would have been on the floor for sure. I have nearly passed out during all but one of my children’s births. It was so bad once that, during the important pushing phase of childbirth, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me. They then gave me my wife’s oxygen, before they finally decided to worry more about the birth of my son Benjy. It was surreal.
I don’t recall ever seeing a clock in a hospital, anywhere. What are they, Vegas?
Urgent care effin’ sucks. I’m so glad Livie is okay. And yay you, not puking or fainting!
Oh, my chickadees’ bodily fluids make me wanna faint dead away. Especially blood. I think this calls for some brownies!
seriously. there are no clocks..it always drives me crazy. It’s just like the twiglight zone…especially when there are no windows too