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July 08, 2005
I'll bet she's sick of doctors by now
Poor Emma. She's been the subject of more poking and prodding in the last month than her daddy has in the last year. Today we took her to meet her doctor, the singular Dr. Stephen Douglas at Cabarrus Pediatrics.
Dr. Douglas specializes in international adoptions, and has taken Emma as one of his patients -- lucky for us. He worked with us through the pre-adoption process, getting us set up with the necessary medicines for travel and giving us his assessment of Emma's development report.
First, we went to the waiting room, where Emma amused herself with any number of toys -- particularly the "chasing beads on a wire" job. Then, it was on to the examination room. There, she located the best toy of all -- the mirror placed lengthwise along the exam table! This occupied the brief time until the doctor arrived.
The long and the short of the exam is that she's basically healthy, pending test results. She's a bit underweight (well, actually, pretty seriously underweight compared to American kids), and she has a mild heart murmur that we need to have checked out. Otherwise, no problem.
The only bad part of the day was the blood draw. We left the room when the nurses entered, and were serenaded with a chorus of wails the likes of which we haven't heard since the moment we got her in China. Five minutes later she was passed to us, wet-eyed and sobbing, consolable only with the application of Dora the Explorer stickers.
She's so easy like that. :)
Posted by brlittle at July 8, 2005 10:11 AM