Dr. appointment for 2 sickly children!

Well, yesterday I took the kids to the doctor together. I usually drop one of them off at my mom’s house for her to watch and take the other with me to the office. However, they’ve both been sick at the same time lately so I thought I would be brave and take them both in by myself. NEVER AGAIN! I don’t care if I have to go in twice on the same day, but I’m NEVER taking them both in together!!!

This is how it went: We got there, checked in, looked at the fish tank and made “fishy faces” at Lincoln. They were both so good, playing with each other and the other little kids waiting for their names to be called. All of a sudden we hear “Riley and Lincoln”, Riley takes off running to the nurse and gives her leg a big hug…weird. She’s never that friendly. The kids get back to the weigh station and get weighed and temps taken. Riley now weighs 25.4 oz (that was with a coat, sweatshirt, shirt, jeans and shoes on…not sure why they didn’t want some of that taken off) and Lincoln weighs 17.2 oz! (Holy cow)

Then the MD came in. He checked out Lincoln first and Ri looked on. Lincoln looked great, but he couldn’t tell if he had an ear infection because he had a lot of wax buildup (gross, I know) so he wanted his ear flushed so he could check again. Then he checked out Riley. Anyways, they came to the conclusion that they both have (and probably I have it too) enterovirus–similar to a cold, but it can cause very high fevers so we have to watch out for that.

Anyways here comes the disastrous part. The nurses came in to flush out Lincoln’s ear. He was NOT happy. I wouldn’t have been either though. The “pumped” his ear full of water to get the wax out. So he was screaming and because he was screaming, Riley was hugging my leg, screaming!! Not crying, but screaming at the top of their lungs! Then when they were done, Lincoln was still crying as was Riley. Then for some reason she bit my leg (I think because she wanted me to pick her up the whole time but I couldn’t because I had to hold Lincoln’s arms down) so I smacked her mouth (lightly, just so she’d know not to bite–she never bites, weird) so then she screamed more and Lincoln started screaming again. You get the picture…this went on for AT LEAST 10 minutes. OMG, never again :)!

The second worst part to them both screaming was that I couldn’t even hear what the doctor was telling me. I finally said, “I’m so sorry, but I can’t hear anything you’re saying”…needless to say, he came back in after they calmed down and explained it to me.

Thankfully, though, they are feeling a little better today!