5 in1 Doctor Appointment

John and I took Brendon to a doctor's appointment this morning with his pediatrician.  It was our usual 5 in 1 appointment.  I wait as long as I can to take him in, so when we go, I always have a list on my phone to go over with her.  This time I had even bookmarked pages on autism blogs and Google searches for medications.  She's always patient with me and my lists.  She seemed happy to look over my research and used it to help us make our decisions about med changes.  She gets an A+ in my book.  :)

We haven't been able to get height, weight, temp, blood pressure, or anything on Brendon at doctor appointments in years!  We've been guessing for a long time.  We usually push him in his special needs stroller, no.1 so that he's not trying to escape, and no.2 because he views his stroller as a safe haven when he's scared or has a lot of anxiety.  Well, today we decided to change it up and let him walk.  It was sort of amusing to watch people's reaction as he twirled, flapped and chattered in the line to check in for his appointment.  His loud noises were proof of his nervous excitement, to those of us who know him well.  Expressions ranged from pained annoyance to exasperation to downright amusement. 

As soon as we were called back and Brendon saw the scales his noises changed to unhappy wailing sounds.  However, to my utter and complete shock he allowed the nurse to weigh him, measure him, CHECK HIS TEMP (WOW!), and even do the blood pressure cuff thing on his arm!  After we talked to the doctor we had to take him down to the lab to have blood drawn.  I was a nervous wreck!  I've seen five nurses on top of him  trying to hold him down to just get an IV in him in the ER.  And they didn't succeed.  So I was scared.  But to my surprise it wasn't bad.  We had two quick and good nurses and although he cried, he didn't fight much at all.  I was one happy mommy when it was all over!   :)