Duped

May 25th, 2007

This is PJ right before she was to get her 5 year shots.


In my mind I was going to take the picture as she was getting her shot, just like I did with her brother a few years back. However her strength, screaming, determination and stubbornness won out. My hands needed to be holding her arms down and not holding my camera up.

The terror started to creep in as the nurse walked in. PJ was prepared for A shot, not THREE. Once she saw the three needles she came unglued. The nurse tried really hard to talk her off the ledge, to give her a choice of helping or being held down by outside help. After several tries at rationalizing with her I looked at the nurse and above the shrieking mouthed, “she is beyond reason.”

I physically got in to help try and pry her hands away from her long sleeves and she wouldn’t budge. She just kept screaming and crying. As I was trying to restrain her I noticed that she was wearing a skirt, a short skirt, a skirt that showed us her whole thigh. I looked at the nurse and motioned down to her thigh with my eyes. She looked at me, nodded and went straight in on both legs. She never knew what hit her, until it hit her.

The downfall to our little tale…even though she got her shots yesterday she is now one experience smarter and will never let those nurses snow her like that again.


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