Totally Traumatic

For all you mothers who have had to watch your children be poked and proded and to be put in pain for their own good...kudos to you! I took Mason to the doctor today because he was having a really high fever that Tylenol wouldn't fix. He was having other issues that were just weird enough that on a Friday afternoon I figured I should get him in. After an eventful attempt to get his temperature, (seriously, get a faster thermometer people), and a once over by the doctor, they thought he may have a urinary tract infection. This meant a urine sample. Oh for his sake did I wish that the earlier potty training attempt had worked, but it didn't. This meant that they had to do a catheter in order to get a sample.

IT WAS HORRIBLE! Truth is, it was probably worse for him but, my heart was breaking. I had to help hold him down. He was screaming, "don't do that"..."I don't like that"..."that hurts". It was SO much easier during his immunizations that he couldn't talk. The fact that he was able to clearly communicate how horrible he felt was terrible.

Thankfully, a cuddle session from mommy and a Buzz Lightyear sticker later he was feeling better. The initial result was negative for UTI but they are doing the full test overnight and will let me know in the morning. In one way, I hope it is positive so that he didn't go through all that for nothing...but then again, I hope it is negative.

This was a longer post than I had anticipated BUT it was therapeutic for me.