We went in today for Lucy's six month eye visit. As usual, it takes a lot of work to get there and keep both kids happy while we're there, for what seems to be not a lot of information, but I'm used to it by now.
They had, and always have had, a hard time getting Lucy to look at things they want her to look at so they can test her eyes. First, the assisting doctor tried to put a piece of tape over Lucy's eye (instead of one of those black eye cover things they use at the grown up eye doctor...) and Lucy was NOT having it. Imagine this scenario: you put a bunch of sticky tape over a two-year-old's eye, then ask her to look at a small TV monitor all the way across the room with a small picture on it and then seem disappointed when she neither knows what the picture is or even cares where the TV is -- all she wants to do it get that tape off her eye! haha. So we moved on to the black eye cover thing, but that didn't work any better. All this time, Ian is sitting on a blanket on the floor of the room, crawling away every minute and trying to grab the paper off the printer, etc. LOL. They ended up trying to turn on a movie for her to look at (she could care less) and then they brought in another nurse to try to do silly dances for Lucy to look at. I guess they got what they wanted (finally!) and Dr. Lambert took a look at her and said everything looked great. Then they had to dilate her eyes, and we had to go out and wait in the waiting room until the drops worked. Then they had to try to get her to look into this machine so they could measure her eyes (that tactic barely worked!) Dr. Lambert looked at her once again, then we were on our way home, only 2 hours after we arrived. Poor Ian. He was so tired because it was during his nap time. He got passed from doctors and nurses to try to make him happy while I helped them try to make Lucy do what they wanted her to do. I just realized today that getting a two year old to do anything they don't want to do at the doctor's office is nearly impossible, especially when it involves looking at something. I can hold her down or hold her head all I want, but I cannot physically make her look at something.
It's over, and we don't have to do it again for a year, so hopefully she will be much more compliant and Ian will definitely stay home next year, even though he will be in a very different state next year, I'm sure.
I will say that it was very nice of all the doctors and nurses to sense my inability to deal with both Lucy and Ian at the same time and offer to hold him instead of just leaving me in a lurch!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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