Badges of Honor
I took my two youngest boys in for their yearly check-ups today. During the examinations I was given the choice of putting off the older of the two's immunization for another year. But, five minutes later I was told that the younger fella needed a shot today.
Being the fair minded Dad that I am, I said go ahead and get them both. You know.....to be fair.
It wasn't fair by any stretch of the imagination. The younger of the two received one shot. The older guy received a total of three.
My mistake in all this?
I let the older one go first. Guess who had his face right in there watching the needle go in? You betcha.....the little guy had a front row seat to his brother's blood and pain. I was holding the older one down the best I could but an arm got loose and he tried to yank the needle out of the Nurse's hand. Although this plan might have looked good on paper, it just didn't work for him as planned. He ended up causing himself more pain, because he rotated the needle around inside of his thigh muscles.
By the time it was little man's turn, he was cowering behind the chair, telling me no way Jose.
One my brave yound men received a Daffy Duck bandage, and the other received a Snoopy bandage.
As much noise as we made inside the exam room during the immunizations, you never would have known anything was wrong by the time we walked out. Except for the occasional leg rub, and a proud flash of a bandage.
'I'm so proud of you guys, you took that like big boys.'
'You're proud of ME too Dad?' (youngest)
'You Betcha!'
Being the fair minded Dad that I am, I said go ahead and get them both. You know.....to be fair.
It wasn't fair by any stretch of the imagination. The younger of the two received one shot. The older guy received a total of three.
My mistake in all this?
I let the older one go first. Guess who had his face right in there watching the needle go in? You betcha.....the little guy had a front row seat to his brother's blood and pain. I was holding the older one down the best I could but an arm got loose and he tried to yank the needle out of the Nurse's hand. Although this plan might have looked good on paper, it just didn't work for him as planned. He ended up causing himself more pain, because he rotated the needle around inside of his thigh muscles.
By the time it was little man's turn, he was cowering behind the chair, telling me no way Jose.
One my brave yound men received a Daffy Duck bandage, and the other received a Snoopy bandage.
As much noise as we made inside the exam room during the immunizations, you never would have known anything was wrong by the time we walked out. Except for the occasional leg rub, and a proud flash of a bandage.
'I'm so proud of you guys, you took that like big boys.'
'You're proud of ME too Dad?' (youngest)
'You Betcha!'
posted by Tall Molly Man at 6:56 PM
3 Comments:
Shots are never fun... But it was so cute to read that they were strutting around with them. :-)
Just wanted to tell you that my kiddo does have coverage... BUT the cut on his head wasn't stitch worthy so we actually did what you wrote this past weekend. I still need to finish shaving his head though...haha Ball caps only work so well.
Thank you for being you Tall Molly Guy.
CUTE! I loved this story! You told it well. :)
Oh, man, shots are the worst! My son is totally the hold 'em down type.
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