I know I have written about this before, but Jelly bean loves going to the doctor. Yes, most kids kick and scream as you drag them, trying to bribe them with a lollipop, striking up your anxiety 3 days prior to actually going, OH the dread!
Not my Jelly bean. She asks to go to the doctor. She will fake a cough and turn to me and say, "Momma, I have a cough, I need to go to the doctor."
Yesterday, as I turned into the parking lot Jelly says, "Is that the doctor?" I replied, "Yes." She yells in pure excitement, "YEAH!!!!!" I say, "Could you at least act a little more sick than that?"
The waiting room isn't really that exciting...she walks in and sits down while I go to the nurse's station to sign us in. And next thing I know, Jelly is singing at the top of her lungs. The nurses begin to laugh. I say, "Yes, you would never know anything was ever wrong with her...she loves to visit the doctor."
Our visit was actually legit, a cough that has lasted 4 weeks...a stomach bug in the middle...wanted to make sure there wasn't anything underlying.
As we visited with the doctor, he asked her, "Does anything hurt?" She replied, "Yes." He said, "Can you tell me what hurts?" She replied, "My belly." The Doctor asked, "Does anything else hurt?" She only offered a blank stare. He asked, "Does your head hurt?" She shook her head yes. I knew where this was going...I asked, "Does your foot hurt?" and she shook her head yes. At that point it was determined that she was going to say everything hurt. So the line of questioning was over.
The Doctor checked her out and gave her the all clear. 12-18 colds a year is normal for kids, unfortunately for my girl...she has had several this past month with a stomach virus in the mix.
And then it was sticker time...Jelly picked her "Sleeping Beauty" sticker and walked out of there proud and satisfied.
I asked Jelly, "What makes going to the doctor so much fun?" She replied, "I get a sticker!"
Even though she has millions of stickers at home -- there is apparently nothing like a sticker from the Doctor!
Saturday, February 7, 2009
My Toddler Loves Going to the Doctor
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Funny! I sometimes take kids to the nurse and *I* know which kids are faking their answers because I spend five mornings a week with them. But the nurse is taking them SERIOUSLY because she doesn't know them. So I start the ole' "Does your foot hurt?" thing too. One time this little boy was just saying YES to every question the nurse asked and I interjected with questions like, "Is the sky purple?"
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