Today, we had another delightful (smell sarcasam) trip to the allergist. As Gunner is allergic to eggs and they grow the flu shot in eggs, he has to have it administered there. Here was a run down of the fun:
9:10 pick up pediatric dose of flu vaccine
9:35 arrive at allergist
9:45 meet with allergist (who speaks english, but is very hard to understand) explaining to him why we are there
10:00 test for serum reaction
10:15 check for reaction. ok to do a partial injection, inject 1/5 of the shot
10:30 check for reaction
10:45 check again, administer more of the injection (poke 3)
By this time, Gunner has figured out when 2 nurses walk in, he is getting poked. And he is NOT happy.
11:00 check for reaction...at this point he has super flushed cheeks and is hot and kinda wheezy
11:15 recheck
11:30 recheck...asked how close we lived to a hospital and if we had an epi pen..reassuring much?
So at 11:45 he zonks out. Sleeps until 2:40..needless to say with the question we were asked on the way out, I was checking on him about every 30 minutes, very similar to the newborn neuroticism that is even more intensified when you have a preemie, you know...the breathing checking? fun. yeah, fun.
The one bright moment of the appointment was when the nurse was going to poke him and she notes "At least he has meaty thighs!" To the mom of a 33 week preemie, it was the one good thing I heard.
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