The Gauger Family: 4 Year Well Visit

Monday was Gracie's 4 year well visit. I've heard about this Dr. visit for years now from Mommy friends and I wasn't too thrilled about having to do it. I'd say overall it was okay and I"m super glad we don't have to do it again. We are 3 weeks late for this because I had to wait until we had a day off from work. Monday was our 'fall break', one day off so not a fun way to spend my day off! The other factor was that this was G's first time with a new Dr. Since we moved, I did not want to drag her back up to McKinney for every little sniffle and she hasn't been sick since we moved in so it was a new Dr. for us. I found a very sweet Dr. that is close to our house that is full of wonderful nurses and was easy to get into. Here she is in the waiting room. She was all smiles, I didn't tell her what we'd be doing soon!

We started off with basics; height/weight check, blood pressure check. That was the easy part :) Then we moved on to the vision check and hearing check. She did great with the vision. The hearing she was told to raise her hand if she heard the beep. I guess she didn't want to raise her hand or what because she'd just look at us and smile when she heard the beep. Then we told her to start shaking her head but she'd just put her hand on her head. She was all confused. The nurse said she could tell she did fine. Phew. I know the girl can hear!! She hears everything! Then the appt started going downhill. The nurse had to test her blood by pricking her finger. Yuck. It was great at first then the pain set in. She cried and cried. Good news is her iron count is good and her lead level is very low so that's good.

We finally got her calmed down then the Dr. came in to do this physical. She asked us lots of questions about her and our house. She asked about the pool, making sure we had gates, smoke detectors, what she eats, sleeping, school, and more. She did an overall physical of her and checked out all her parts and her spine. She said she looks great! Yay! She gave her fun rewards then her mood took a nose dive. She kept asking why she couldn't put her pants on and I had to tell her she needed shots. Oh the wailing that came out of her. She was in major panic mode. Kelly and I both tried to comfort her but there wasn't much we could do. Luckily the nurses came in fast and were super quick. They each had 2 shots and bam, bam did both legs 2 times and we were done. They did the flu mist in her nose super quick first though and we were out of there! She did cry, well SCREAMED during the shots. Once it was over not too bad.