Reply to Doctor's appointment nightmare

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Doctor's appointment nightmare"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OK, so my DD just turned 4, and we went in for her routine yearly checkup today.  She has a moderate expressive speech delay, so situations like this where she can't always express herself to the extent she needs to stress her out.

But I mean today it was like the perfect storm of everything going wrong and we didn't even get shots today!  She was already resisting going inside when she saw where we were headed, but then we went in, saw the nurse, and got some of her measurements, but she was totally PO'ed the she had to take her shoes off to get weighed.  Then they couldn't get her damn blood pressure because she wouldn't hold her arm stone-still.  She was crying.  So we went in to the see the doctor, and I could see her getting just really, really anxious and worried and upset.  She was blinking back tears, but trying to sit calmly and be good, but I could tell she was worried.  Then the doctor came in and started peppering her with questions, not really getting that yes, she's still in speech therapy and not really able to answer some of these types of questions yet.  I could just see my DD getting that "deer-in-headlights" look.  She began ignoring the doctor, was afraid to make eye contact, basically she just got really quiet and withdrawn, but I could tell she was listening to everything we were saying.  But she really lost it when I had to get her undressed and she had to lay down and get examined.  Her chin was trembling and she was screaming and crying – I could tell she was really scared.

Normally I like our pediatrician (I have two older children as well), but today she ended up making some comment about how she would be worried about autism unless she knew we had already had her evaluated for that (negative, BTW), and that she tends to be anxious (all three of my kids do)!  I don't know if that was her attempt at a joke or what, but it really pissed me off, given that my daughter has come a long way with speech.

I know that some kids with speech delays can look autistic to people who don't know them well (she is very healthy, so only sees the doctor once a year), but DD acts nothing like what she acted like at the doctor's today at home or at preschool.  The best part was when the doctor expressed concern given that, "Most kids love coming to the doctor at 4 years old."  Um, seriously?  Because I've never met one.

What do you guys think?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics