I don't want the needle :(

It's been such a long time since my last post, but I am so busy with work and have little time for posting...

Right now I'm in my last rotation as a trainee. I'm working in Pediatric department now. Kids are amazing healthy or sick. Some of my encounters with them are funny, others are sad. I will be sharing some of these stories with you.

NEEDLEs ... are you scared of them? unfortunately, some families threatens their kids with needles if they behaved badly by saying" if you are bad I'm gonna take you to the doctor and give you a shot!" .. so the child put in his/her mind that if I'm bad I'm going to get a shot, and that's totally untrue because sometimes a child needs a shot as part of his/her treatment or health.

One of the encounters that is related to this topic, is that during my night shift in the wards I met a young girl who was hospitalized. She was browsing in the ward with her younger brother, who was healthy. And once she saw me, she smiled and called at me"hey you! come here and give my brother a shot! He's being naughty" I smiled at her and went away. What was funny about that is the way she was talking to me, as she was the boss! also her brother, who was several years younger than her, wasn't misbehaving!

Another story, is that in the treatment room, where they stick needles in the arm of kids and draw blood. I met a five year old girl who was crying in agony" no needles! I don't want needles! Oh my GOD" with a sweet voice while they drew blood from her. I felt for her and her mother, who was there beside her trying to ease the pain from her.

Poor kids! what shall we do! I do hope that in the near future we will discover new types of investigations that doesn't resolve to needles :) in my experience if an adult had a choice to scream NO NEEDLES I think they will.