STINKER

(This picture was NOT taken at her last appointment)

 Last week Lucy had an eye appointment. 

Lucy usually loves going to the doctors, any kind.  The appointment started out well.  Lucy loves the waiting room with all the toys.. it then went downhill very quickly.  Our doctor is a man, who might be the nicest guy you will ever meet....I mean the guy works with little kids all day.  On this day he came out to the waiting room and called us into a room instead of a nurse.  Lucy wasn't happy to see a man.  Things then went into a steep decline.  To meet us on the other side of the waiting room door was Jaco, the resident dog.   Lucy FREAKED completely out. She jumped into my arms and was screaming.  She HATES dogs.  The people at the Dr. office looked at us like we were the only people in the entire world who were not happy to see Jaco and were genuinely surprised at her reaction.  It was then and there she decided that she was not going to cooperate. at. all. for this appointment.

She refused to sit in the exam chair and as the doctor tried to start the exam he would point to an object on the page and ask what it was.  She refused to answer with a shake of her head, he then tried to have her point to the "duck" or the "hand" on the chart.  She made a fist and refused to answer or point.  She would not do any of it.  It was getting a little embarrassing, here I am in a room with the doctor and she will NOT cooperate on any level.  She freaked completely out when he tried to put a patch on her eyeglasses to test each eye.  After begging her and bribing her for what seemed like forever with all sorts of things she finally started to come around.  We finally got the exam over with and things ended up going okay, other than the fact I was sweating profusely by the time we left.  That night when Mitch asked Lucy how her appointment went and if she was a good girl at the doctor's office she told him "I was a good girl, but mom said I was a stinker."  Amen to that sister!!