A question for the parent's on the board.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-06 12:54am

I went to the doctors with my best friend. It was time for her 6 month old babies shots. I just adore her and she is the first infant Ive ever really known.

When they brought out the needles for the baby I became really uncomfortable because they were so big and she is small. The nurse was a pro, all six shots in less than 10 seconds. But the baby still cried and I wanted to cry too. I threw all rational thought out the window and was thinking cant we just skip this?

So am I being a whimp or is this normal behavior when you care for a little one?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-01-06 12:57am

I waited as long as possible to immunize my kids. There is a small percentage of the population whose kids are injured by the shot, and I didn't want to be in that percentage.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-01-06 12:59am

Darth Wong wrote:I waited as long as possible to immunize my kids. There is a small percentage of the population whose kids are injured by the shot, and I didn't want to be in that percentage.

I realize that. That is why I would not get the small pox vaccine unless there was a real outbreak.

The whole process just surprised me cause I understand and believe in childhood vaccinations, I just was surprised it hurt me to see her crying.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-01-06 01:01am

No one wants to see their child in pain and having had to sit in a hospital room for several days while my daughter was getting over an infection on her hand I witnessed and committed some acts that only can be described as insane parent syndrome. my daughter had to be given antibiotics every four hours and the anitbiotics were oil based, anyone that knows about this knows that this means that when given intravenously, the medicine actually feels like its burning as it enters your bloodstream. For an adult its uncomfrotable, for a child of three its hell.

I'll never forget one time that I tried to put her to sleep for two hours straight, rocking her, singing to her and finally she fell asleep. Well, the nurse came 15 minutes later and administered the antiobiotic whoch promptly woke my daughter up as she went hysterical crying from the pain and throwing up all over the floor. I went apeshit on the nurse for bothering her with the "fucking antibiotic" when my daughter needed sleep and "you just woke her up you twat!" Needless to say after it was all over I was extremely emebarrased and apologized to teh nurse who promptly told me thats he was used to it, it was the way parents got when their kids are in pain. To this day, any thought of her in a hospital makes me shudder.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-06 01:03am

Sucks to see em cry, cuz they think your hurting them on purpose. How the hell do they understand it's for their own good. However, what doesn't kill us, just makes us stronger. They gotta learn that early on.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-01-06 01:06am

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Sucks to see em cry, cuz they think your hurting them on purpose. How the hell do they understand it's for their own good.

I once had to take my boy to the hospital because he might have swallowed something toxic. I still remember him screaming and clutching for his mother when they started shoving that black charcoal shit down his throat. It was just awful.

However, what doesn't kill us, just makes us stronger. They gotta learn that early on.

That saying sounds cool but is totally untrue. There are many things which do not kill us but leave us permanently scarred and often fucked up. Polio, for example. Not to mention many childhood traumas of all kinds.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2003-01-06 01:09am

You'll grow out of it.

What's this Kingsfort charcoal shit they shoved down your kids throat.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-01-06 06:53am

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:You'll grow out of it.

What's this Kingsfort charcoal shit they shoved down your kids throat.

Activated Charcoal is a cleaning agent that works something like a sponge but for toxins. They were using it to sop it up so Mike's poor boy could poop the poison out quickly instead of letting it chew up his GI tract. Speakin of, how are the wife and kids doing, Darth Wong?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-01-06 11:28am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
DG_Cal_Wright wrote:You'll grow out of it.

What's this Kingsfort charcoal shit they shoved down your kids throat.
Activated Charcoal is a cleaning agent that works something like a sponge but for toxins. They were using it to sop it up so Mike's poor boy could poop the poison out quickly instead of letting it chew up his GI tract. Speakin of, how are the wife and kids doing, Darth Wong?

Yep, we go through that stuff pretty quickly on a regular basis at the hospital.

The other nice thing we have is acetlcystine aka mucomyst. It's a liquid typically give to people who've over dosed on tylenol (acetaminophen) but it's ocassionally used on other stuff. This stuff smells like rotten eggs. It's supposed to taste nasty even mixed with other stuff. What's worse is a lot of times people have to take it several times a day for a couple of days. It ends up making their breath smell like rotten eggs. Still, it's better than letting the person's liver be destroyed.

ArthurDent · Post by **ArthurDent** » 2003-01-06 11:30am

It sucks to see your kid in pain, but sometimes that pain is essential to remedy something else. For instance my daughter had a kidney infection when she was 6 months old. The worse part is that there isn't a thing you can say to make a 6 month old feel better. At least a 3 year old can understand langauge and you can use words to prepare them for the pain and to help them deal with it. The only thing you can do with an infant is hold her, trying to make her as comfortable as possible.