5 Year Well-Check Wonders
Nov 7 2007

I finally got around to taking our son for his 5 year well-check, and he passed with flying colors! Not that there is a pass or fail to the well-check experience, but I felt good about it (a.k.a. I felt like a good mom). 🙂

Our pediatrician (who I really like) checked him over and then the nurse came in to conduct his vision and hearing tests. When he was 4 years old, the nurse asked him to read the lines of letters on a sign that they placed down a hallway…very much like an adult eye exam. This time the nurse gave him a square laminated card with different shapes on it (i.e., square, heart, house, circle) and asked him to point to the shape on his card that she was pointing to on a sign that was on a door down the hallway. I’m a bad judge of distances so I can’t say exactly how far the sign was but maybe 15 to 20 feet away? She then had me put my hand over each of his eyes and asked him to find the shapes with just one of his eyes. I thought it was a very clever and unique test, because not only was it testing his vision but also his shape recognition and matching abilities.

He then got his chicken pox vaccine booster, which he chose to get in his arm instead of his thigh, where he has gotten all of his in the past. He complained a little bit but then seemed to forget it fairly quickly mostly because our doctor promised to show him a magic trick. Even though it’s been over a year since his last well check, he still remembers that she does magic tricks. The magic trick she did today was to have him tear up a paper towel and put it in her magic bag that has a handle on it. She shakes the bag, the pieces of paper towel disappear, and when she turns the bag over a bunch of stickers fall out!

He was thrilled with his super hero and Sesame Street stickers, and I was thrilled that the doctor said he is doing well and that he was a very bright kid. 🙂

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