Vaccinations

Dear Diary, Yesterday our darling girl endured the needle not once, not twice but SEVEN times...

She's had immunizations in Northern Ireland, Canada and now America and it seems each country has a slightly different vaccination schedule. For instance, MMR is given at 15 months in the UK but 12 months here in America so she got that one yesterday. It took them a while to figure out what she needed but she is now up-to-date to the American schedule and rather than carry three vaccination cards, we have just one.

She also had her first flu shot and the chicken pox vaccination. She has to go back in a month for a second Hep A shot and the second flu shot (only the first innoculation requires two jabs) if they are still handing them out at that time. I hope so because flu season lasts into May in this part of the country.

She's been REALLY good. No fevers or fussing during the day, just a bit of difficulty getting into a deep sleep at night. She cried frequently during the night but was able to soothe herself back to sleep. With only a bit of children's Tylenol, she's been quite a trooper!

After next month she won't need anymore until 18 months and frankly I don't want to know what they are after she had so many yesterday. I'm just thankful she's up-to-date now and well under way not to get any of those horrible diseases.