Adara had her 15 month check up yesterday. She passed with flying colours. When the doctor asked if she said at least two words, Adara responded herself by saying "More crackers mamma?" which in reality is more like "Mo crackeys mamma". The doctor laughed and laughed when Len asked her to say Doctor and she did perfectly clearly. She's in the 96 percentile for weight. For those of you non parents, of all the babies her ages, boys and girls, of 100 babies, only 4 are chubbier then my sweet cheeks. Nice! Very few girls are above the 85 percentile, so this is a feat of eating!
So, that was all of the good news. Then the nurse came in and talked to us about her shots for this time, the final MNR and chicken pox. She went out to prep them and was gone a very long time. We've now been there an hour and a half, Adara is getting fussed up and we still have shots to go. The nurse comes back in and says ok here's the shots, it's "such and such and such and such a shot, right (can't remember what she said the shots were)" I say "Yes. Wait, no, that's not it at all. She's supposed to be getting chicken pox and something else." The nurse looks at the chart and goes, "oh she's only fifteen months, I prepped the wrong shots." and goes back out. "I'M SORRY, WHAT?". Those needles were sitting innocently all open and ready to go right beside my daughter, and only me catching you mumbling what she was getting separated us from the wrong shots? That's mind blowing.
Needless to say, we spoke to the doctor about it. So, it didn't happen, but it just really brings things home. We are her only voice, all of the time. These near events can happen at any moment and if you're not on your game...
Stunning.
2 comments:
Good catch! Whew! Yes - these occurrences do remind us what a serious job we have as our children's protectors - and that ultimately, we're pretty much the only ones invested at that level!
gah- second time I've heard a story like this in the last 2 days, involving babies. makes me nervous.
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