Vampires and Cookie Monster~

THEY TOOK MY BLOOD!!!

Poor Vienna, she’s had a rough week.  I feel it! I’m sure she feels it more though.  We’ve struggled for a week now with a fever.  She’s been all over the map with it, getting as high as 104 degrees.  We went to the doctor two days ago and he didn’t find anything, we figured her fever would go away with one more day since it had gone down before back up that day.  But the next night proved scary.  She got chilled and her temp went sooo low she was cold and clammy!!! and she had the shakes!  That was freaky.  Within an hour she went from 96.4 temp to 103.2 temp… yeah, NOT fun. That was my third night without sleep, so I wasn’t thinking so well or we would probably have taken her to the urgent care.  Sam was calm and we checked her a while later and she was back down. But the next day she was still having a fever.  So, since her doctor was on vacation, we saw a new doctor. Very young (like MY age or younger even, which I’m not used to in doctors) but very nice. He ordered some tests.  So, what started off as a day I thought I could get some groceries and get some rest… we wound up at the doctors and ultimately at the hospital to have some lab work done.

So, we go to the hospital because they don’t like to do baby blood draws in doctors offices. We meet the nicest nurses who are going to vampireise, i mean, draw Vienna’s blood.  They try to distract her by giving her a Cookie Monster toy, nice try, but yeah, no go! (still it was very sweet).  So.. down to business…

Have you ever had to have your one year old’s blood drawn??  Yeah, it’s NOT a fun experience!!  They sit YOU in a chair and have you put your baby on your lap. These two HUGE nurses, I swear one lady was six foot, walk up and stands infront of you and your baby.  That’s scary enough, even though the nurses were the SWEETEST ladies, still so tall and hovering over her I think scared her.  Thankfully Vienna has good veins.  So, one nurse holds her arm straight, the other actually draws the blood (for Sam’s sake I’ll spare that description, he’s not so keen on medical stuff).  All the while YOU are expected to keep your baby from squirming and moving her body or worse yet trying to grab the needle with her free hand… NOT FUN! Though, I’d much rather do that then send her off on her own to have total strangers do all this to her alone.  SCREAMSSSSSS emit from my daughters mouth… I’m sure they can hear her clear up at the reception area that we walked in from… mind you, this is a good 100 yards away!  Grandma reports that the other man just outside the lab room said “oh that poor baby.” He sure gave her a nice smile when we left the room.

I must say my daughter is still quite a trooper.  She screamed loud and hard… but not for long.  She was back to normal fairly quickly.  We went down to the cafeteria and got a banana to eat right after that and then got the results from the doctors office.  All looked well as far as infection went with her blood work… but we did find out that she is low on iron so, we’ll be pushing iron foods and taking iron drops… but the saga didn’t end there…  More to come this afternoon on the trauma that is diagnosis!

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