Blair had her 4 month checkup yesterday as I previous noted. While her growth and development were just fine, the downside was that she needed to get some shots of vaccines. I don’t like shots, kids hate shots, and babies despise shots with a cataclysmic passion. Needless to say, Blair was fussy throughout the day yesterday and we had a very long night. There is nothing more heart wrenching than when your infant is looking at you almost apologetically with the look of “please make the pain stop daddy”.
So once the fever started last night we called our doctor’s office to double check that everything was normal and ask what, if anything, we should watch out for in terms of escalating symptoms of vaccine side effects. After about 30 minutes, the on-call doctor finally calls back and refutes the type of thermometer and method of taking Blair’s temperature that our primary care physician recommended. Did I mention that they are in practice together? Anyways, after a frequently interrupted night, Colleen calls the doctors office at 8:30am this morning and at 12:00pm she still didn’t get a call back. When she called back a second time, she was told our doctor was not in the office today and would she like to speak to a nurse. Except she was transferred into the practice’s voicemail system that could rival government or airlines bureaucratic phone tree. While we are quite fond of our doctor as an individual and practitioner, the practice is way too top heavy for the type of care we are looking for as new parents with an infant. If anyone has any recommendations of a pediatrician in the Sterling Heights area, please let us know.
After the night/morning Colleen and I needed to laugh a little bit so we are continually watching the following video. It never fails to bring a smile:
