Friday, December 10, 2004
3-Year Well Visit
Well, today we went to get Parker's 3 year well visit. He did ok. It wasn't AS bad as last time, but he still cried.
They wanted to take his blood pressure, and he freaked. He freaked standing on the scales, and we had to hold him up against the wall (me at his feet, Jeff at his head) to measure him. Then, we had to take his shirt off --- we might as well have been skinning him. He calmed down after about 5 minutes with just the three of us in the room, but then the doctor came, and he freaked again. He cried and fussed the whole time his heart, lungs, and stomach were being checked. He clamped his hands over his ears and closed his eyes tightly when Dr. W. was ready to check all of that. He did consent to looking for "Trainmice and robots" in his mouth, at least -- it was the only thing he cooperated with. Then it was time to check his legs, which required laying down -- this did NOT go over well at all. But, he was checked and all looked fine (from what he could see).
Finally, he got his MMR -- the build-up was much worse than anything else. Parker wanted to leave so badly, and tried to pull his short sleeves down to his wrists. After the shot, though, he didn't really cry much or anything, especially once we told him we were leaving. He was thrilled to leave the office.
He weighed 32 pounds, and was 37.25" (I think), which is 75th and 50th %ile respectively. He made a point to say that he isn't concerned about his weight, probably because of the disparity in numbers -- I wasn't concerned either. So, he's a healthy boy, and we don't have to go back for a year!!
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