Nurse from Hell
Younger Monkey had a well visit and while I like his pediatrician, many of her nurses are completely incompetent. The one he got today was a particular winner. It took her 30 minutes to give him his TB skin test and MMR vax. She was flipping out and restraining him every which way, which was driving him completely batty and pushing me on the verge of physical violence. She stabbed him w/ the PPD point and somehow managed to squirt both me and her! Then she started all over with the crazy restraining until she realized she’d left the needle across the room on the tray. As you can imagine, Younger Monkey was totally screaming at this point.
Then with the MMR, she tried and tried and couldn’t stick him so she actually had to call another nurse into the room. Idiot nurse was so busy swabbing his entire leg with alcohol, she forgot the freaking needle again. Then after she stuck him, Younger Monkey was still screaming and still restrained by the second nurse who asked if idiot nurse wanted to put a bandage on. Idiot nurse startles and says, “Oh yeah! I totally forgot, I was just so happy to give him the shot!”
So that’s the story. But the real heart of the matter is that this woman was CLEARLY a moron and that this went on for an excrutiating long period of time. What does that say about me? Why didn’t I just jump up and grab my poor helpless Monkey and run run run the hell out of there? I have all this pent up anger and I never seem to be able to emit it to the right person, under the right circumstances, in the right amount of time. I really really have to listen to my gut and speak up. What kind of mother doesn’t lash out when her child is in clear and present danger?
