Live and Learn: When Your Child’s Vaccines Go Badly
Talk about a royal tank. Worse than a tank, actually, a royal disaster. Maybe I jinxed it by blogging about it a few weeks ago. Because my poor son has resolved to never, ever, set foot in the pediatrics office again. That’s how badly his appointment for a flu shot went down. In my time as a physician assistant, I worked in two different family practice settings. In both, we provided vaccines to children. Our medical assistants were skilled at giving multiple shots to even the most fearful of kids. There wasn’t a swirl of activity and dialogue around “shot anxiety.” The…
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Sadie was absolutely fine after the shot...she just had trouble before the injection. We had our's done in the pediatric…