Jazzy has been having fun at swimming and dancing lessons. They only let us take pictures of the dancing lessons for 10 minutes once a month! and of course, my camera malfunctioned as it usually does... so the photos are not that great. She wasn't paying attention to the teacher... which is I guess why they don't want parents in the room. On the other hand... at the other place in Chandler where she takes gymnastics and swimming, the parents get to watch and after a few lessons, it is just fine.
She is making good progress in her swimming lessons. Her teacher puts her underwater for a good 5 seconds.... much longer than I did in the "Mommy and Me" classes. He also makes her swim under water and put her head in the water much more than I did.
We also went to downtown Phoenix to the Phoenix Children's Hospital for a doctors visit... just to get us established there. It was fine until the techs went to take her blood and kept poking and jabbing for about one minute. She was ok for about 20 seconds, then started crying. After about 45 seconds, I told them they had 10 more seconds to get the blood or they were going to have to take the needle out because she was screaming by that time. I counted to 10 and just said "needle out now"... and that was it. No blood work. What a bunch of yahoos.....
on the way to dance class
dancing
filling out their sticker books
in front of the dance school
swimming
2 comments:
You must have immense patience! If I had to watch them screw up a blood draw, I’d have yanked the syringe out of the tech’s hands and done it myself (likely with a few choice words). Though, I’m sure it’s quite different looking into you own child’s eyes with a needle in your hand!? Couldn’t you, as a DVM/ND, send your own lab work, and bypass the stab happy yahoos??
So sorry to hear about Spirit! She was a beautiful dog. I remember when you would bring her to the gym. I found it quite amusing how she would watch me, as I would move through the stations. What was the cause of her death?
LS
I am not completely sure of her cause of death. I believe it was a heart-based tumor which bled out into the pericardial sac around the heart and caused heart failure within a matter of minutes. Who are you?
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