7 Year Check

Jordan had his seventh yearly well-check today.  He's grown so much! Gained 16 pounds since last year and he's grown several inches.  Up until a few months ago, he was always so skinny and tiny.  Now he's still pretty short but let me tell you, he's built like a house! "Strong as an ox", as my mother says.  

The checkup was going great until the very end, when Jordan discovered that he had to get a shot.  One little shot.  He heard the word and started to make a break for the door.  I grabbed him and tried to reason with him while Dawn, our sweet nurse, was out of the room getting the vaccine ready.  He wanted nothing to do with it and wriggled out of my arms and shot under the counter.  Dawn came back in the room to find me staring down at him in shock.  I told her that we were having a little issue and she replied that she had a remedy for us. She left again and came back with Mr Jay, a lab tech.  He has been drawing Jordan's blood for a good six years now and has never  had any trouble.  He looked pretty surprised to find Jordan down there under the counter, too.  

We all asked Jordan to come on out, and then Mr Jay told him that if he wouldn't come out, we'd have to pull him out like a baby.  Which is exactly what Mr Jay had to do.  Of course, Jordan kicked and screamed as both Dawn and Jay hoisted him up on the table.  Can you say mortified?  

As if that wasn't enough, the three of us couldn't even hold him down.  Dawn had to call another nurse in.  I told you he was strong!

At the end of the day we finally managed to get Jordan caught up on his immunizations.  We had to to the "walk of shame" down the hallway to the checkout desk.  Me all flustered and sweaty and Jordan red-faced, snotty, and teary.  I just know everybody in that office heard him screaming.  

I was so embarrassed and kept apologizing to everyone.  They were pretty good sports.  Dawn couldn't stop laughing, she was so shocked that Jordan had acted that way.  She said that she wouldn't have to work out tonight because she'd already gotten her work out in. 

This will be one of those embarrassing stories that will be retold at all of Jordan's major milestones... graduation, wedding, 30th birthday party.  Not necessarily in that order.  :)