Paige and I went to the clinic yesterday to get our shots. She needed the 2nd H1N1 half dose, and I decided to get the seasonal flu shot while we were there. After her non-nap ended with her jumping out of bed and scaring herself (this was a first, I'm hoping she learned her lesson), I looked at the wait times online and after seeing there was no wait, I told her "we are going to get another flu shot and get a chicken little bandaid". She was happy to comply since last time she was very happy with her Chicken Little bandaid.
We walked right in and got signed up. She didn't make a peep during the shot and watched the needle going in her arm. I didn't feel I should place adult fears on her by telling her not to look at it. I figured she a)doesn't realize that it is really going IN her arm, and b)she shouldn't be scared if I'm not scared. After getting it she let out a quiet moan and was very quiet for the next little while. I think it hurt a little bit this time. We had to wait in the observation room after our shots, where they were playing the movie "Kung Fu Panda". We watched this for 15 minutes and then left.
The goal was to go rent a movie after this, so we headed off to Rogers. On the way Paige fell asleep but I was able to successfully transfer her into her stroller still sleeping. This is only the 2nd time that this has happened. I took the opportunity to stroll around the video store for quite a long time.
This morning we went to the mall for some Christmas shopping. Paige must have had a bit of a reaction to the shot this time as she said "I'm sick" a lot of times while we were shopping. She was very docile and lethargic the entire time, which made it very easy for me to shop! She wasn't demanding to get out of her stroller, or asking for continual snacks which was nice for a change. When we went home she asked to go to sleep and as I was changing her clothes I noticed she had both a slight fever and a red patch around her injection site. For the record, she did not sleep and I tried very hard to make it happen. Ah well. She seems fine now.
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I treasure those moments when shopping and browsing come easy! Leyla is so close to three, I opted not to get the second dose. No idea if that's good reasoning or not.
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