Stop Hurting My Kid!

i'm sorry for dustin ,i hv not faced what u hv but when people work insensitively it hurts ,my daughter is 3 she is brilliant ,not because she is my daughter and i should say things ,but still she is not talking very well and now on she has started using words just a case of speech delay probably. but people say she is low learner or she is in spectrum soemthing like this ,it hurts a lot .

Wow, i had my own share of incompetent hospital staff... who poked my arm several times just to catch that elusive vein... i wanted to cry but told myself not to... i just don't understand why hospitals employ these kind of people... when this experience happened to me i was already 30 years old... and it hurt like how... i can just imagine what your baby went through... Expect your baby to be afraid of needles in the future...

No. I haven't had that happen. Yet again the only time i would wind up in the hospital is to die.I don't like or trust doctors.Enough about me, how is your little one?Is he feeling better?

I understand your frustration and anguish - our son had them when he was little too. One er guy started to do a spinal tap on him - tried 19 times (at least that is how many picks I counted) while my baby (18 mos) was whaling. The attempts were unsuccessful and they called in the pediatrician - who read the guy the riot act because there was no way the child had meningitis as his neck was not rigid. grrr perchance, has your son recently had vaccinations?

This reminds me when one of my children was 18 months old and had a kidney infection. Because they were so young, the "doctor" wanted to do a catheter and they tied the baby down while she screamed as they were doing this procedure. finally my husband came in and saw how upset both the baby and I were and made them stop..He then got to talking to the radiologist and she couldn't figure out why they were even doing this test since the baby was fine and didn't have recurring infections. Then with another baby, he was just going in for his vaccination and the "nurse" poked him and I could see it didn't go through clean, it was like she had stuck it in wrong and pulled the skin. So, we no longer went to the one doctor and whenever we had vaccines done, I made sure it was not the same lady..

After about 60 seconds I would ask for someone else. It is your child, and as long as you have not threatened to kill the vampire ask for another one!!! You do have that right! Usually they will send in a doctor or the head nurse and things will calm down considerabley. If you are calm, then the child will be calmer and that is what they want so they will accommodate you if they have any sense at all. My second child had major intestinal surgery when she was 6 hours old and then again when she was a month old. It was a merry go round for 8 years. We finally just jumped off ourselves. She is 26 years old 5'13"(6'1") blond, green eyed, and healthy as can be. She just will not admit to being over 6' tall.lol Shalom~Adoniah

I have, my son that has CP has to go through so much. You have every right to ask for someone else. They also have something to numb the area, as they used it on me, when they could not find a vein. To tell you that he could not feel it, I would have come unglued. She was doing her job and they are not perfect at it, but they should also call someone else if they run into problems.

It is your' right to request that a senior nurse or even the attending physician draw the blood. You don't have to let the phlebotomist do it. She was wrong in saying that he couldn't feel that. I have thrown incompetant nurses out of the room and demanded that a more experienced person draw the blood or start the I.V. on my children. Remember that next time. You are well within your' rights to do what YOU deem best for your' child!

hello again, lecanis... well, yes i already have exxperienced that. my son was hospitalized because of pneumonia when he was 2weeks old. i felt like i really would want to kill may people there in the hospital. first, the practicing physicians who tried to draw the IV line so my son can have the IV infusion. they requested us to buy the needle needed and it costs much to buy one. do you know how many times they made us buy the needle again and again? 6 times! my goodness. they were already 4 practicing physicians doing that, one after the other, when the needle is still not hooked to the vein for infusion. i felt like yelling to them. i told them do you really like my son to be practiced with your drawing the IV line for infusion? there are already 4 of you yet no one can ever get directly to the veins. and i am already very very angry because my son has been punctured at different venous parts in both hands and both feet. until my son's pediatrician came in and she did it just once then, bull's eye! she hit the metacarpal vein and then started the IV infusion. she was furious too of the practicing physicians. second, i would like to kick the nurse-aide. what she did to my son was very terrible. she was the one in-charge of taking the vital signs like the pulse rate, respiration rate, temperatute and the blood pressure. also, since my son has been ordered for pulmonary-aide ventilation, usually, chest physiotherapy is done after the ventilation. considering my son is 2WEEKS OLD. she really made the physiotherapy really hard, she tapped my son as if she is tapping an adult person, my son was already eye-bulging because he is already hurt, then he really cried after which. i asked the nursing-aide, who is your supervisor, perhaps she is wrong in hiring you here. she asked why, i told her, are you blind to see that your client here is a newborn baby? i am a nursing student myself so i know how it works. perhaps you do not know how to identify an infant to an adult or to an elderly. she just stopped, and with no respect, she left forgetting the PAI machine on our bedside making the head nurse in their night shift angry because of her negligence.

A good compassionate Phlebotomist will have ago at it, and if there is any strife or struggle will step aside and let someone else do it. I have even seen them call in anesthesiologists, to put an iv in or draw blood. Lecanis it does not matter how busy the ER is you are in control. All you have to do is say stop... let someone else do that now. I am sorry you had that you went through that. But hospital staff do understand that your very life is laying on that table, after a couple of tries it is time to let someone else have a go.

Oh my God Lecanis! I'm sorry I wasn't on mylot for a long time, so I really didn't know what was happening at your end. I knew the first time that Dustin had a really severe seizure, but after that I wasn't logging in that frequently. I know we can bear practically anything that happens to us, but seeing that done on an infant, and that too to one's own child is plain Hell! There is nothing as horrible as that. As you would know, that is exactly what happened to my child when he was 2 months!! Thankfully, the doctors at the hospital asked us to step out the first time they tried to put an IV on my son(they actually said 'You wouldn't want to watch this'), so we only heard his screams and didn't actually see the whole thing! But the damn thing was not put on properly and they did the whole rotten thing about 2 times atleast in front of my eyes. I couldn't stand it. I tried to fight but they said the IV was all done wrong, and if they don't put it right, it would end up in complications!! All I could do was just walk out and spend about an hour crying my heart out! There was a nurse who said she did it best but even she couldn't figure it out!! What the heck! I have been praying that someone finds out a simpler way to finding a vein, because this is just plain nonsense!! BTW, what about your problem? You were saying that your case was new to the doctor and they were trying to figure it out. You went to some doctor 12 hours away and all. So, what did the doctor say? Are you better now?

Absolutely. When my son was just an itty-bitty, he was getting his first round of immunizations and the nurse was actually very good. She was quick and efficient and my baby didn't even have a chance to cry until she was done. Nevertheless, he cried and I cried and I knocked the sh!t out of that poor nurse. Got her right in the jaw. Blessed Be

My 9 year old son has severe hemophilia, a bleeding disorder in which his blood doesn't clot on it's own. Especially when he was younger, he was in the ER on average of once every 3 weeks. His veins were tiny, and he was a very strong little boy. He would fight the nurses for all he was worth. We quickly learned to allow each nurse three unsuccessful pokes before we asked for somebody else to do it. The nurses were really good about following our "rule", since they knew it was for Ben's good. I found out that the anesthesiologist and the peds or OB nurses were the best at getting a vein. Also, it helped to have my husband or or hold him while doing the poke. Good luck with the seizures and the hospital visits!

Easy there Lecan! Breathe! In...out...! Oh who am I kidding. Go get the noob! I support you 120% Now as for your topic I do show a little sympathy for the worker, maybe they are new or are actually having a tough time finding a vein. On the other hand, they should have gotten training and should have some idea of the anatomy in question (but then again, worse things have happened when it comes to "professionals" -_-) I hope your son is doing alright too, I didn't want to forget that.

Yes,I will ask for someone else to draw the blood, and how can the nurse say that he can't fell anything, that is some Bull----, if I ever heard it.

No kids (I think...), heck, not even married (before!) so I can't really know how you ladies feel when a medical staff is torturing your kid. But there are a few blood drawing medics who really have to thank 'upper management' for my lessons in self control, at less their full sets of teeth do :E I've been told that finding a vein is as much a skill as it is a gamble. Normally they know they are in trouble if they miss the first time. That's why they are also trained to pet talk parents while they are trying not to break into cold sweat. But then again she might just suck. In any case, remember her face and request someone else when you see her =x

I had this problem when my son was 19 years old. LOL He had gotten into an accident and they thought he had broken his neck. His ear was half hanging off his head and they kept bumping into it and he would scream in pain. It was horrible and I wanted to kill everybody!