Re: blood drawn

[Guest guest]

Judy, how much understanding does your son have? Evan is going to have

blood drawn and he has not had any drawn since he was 2.6 yo. He is 7 yo

now. With him being nonverbal it is always hard to comprehend exactly how

much understanding he does have. I know that he has more than we give him

credit for. It was all I could do to hold him the first time. He is VERY

strong now and I know that I could not hold him for it if he does not want

it done. His little brother was almost too much at 4.6 yo when he recently

had a blood draw. He hates to even have his blood pressure taken.

I guess this is something I had better start working on right now. thanks

for the idea.

Betty

----- Original Message -----

> This is what I did last month when we had blood drawn from my son. The

> first time we did, a couple of years ago it was horrible and there were 3

> people holding him down. I would like to think that what Idid helped, all

I

> know is that this time was amazingly different than the last time. I took

a

> medicine syringe and about an hour before we left I sat him down and said

> that we have to go see the doctor and that they are going to put something

> around his arm that will hug it really tight and then she will take

> something that looks like this (and held up the medicine syringe) and they

> are going to pinch your arm like this.....and put the syringe on his arm

and

> just acted like I was taking blood from his arm. I waited about 15

minutes

> and did it again and then another 15 minutes and then right before we left

I

> reminded him of what we were going to do. When we got to the hospital,

and

> were waiting, I told him again. He actually climbed into the chair and

was

> ready to go for it. We didn't have to hold him down or anything. He

> flinched a little, but didn't cry or anything, just when she was done, he

> said you did a good good job . I was so proud of him. He got

major

> amounts of stickers that day and was quite proud of himself. Oh

yeah....he

> is 5.

>

> Judy