A Thanksgiving Short (Kids and Shots)

I hope you are all having a good Thanksgiving and enjoy some time with your family.  We all have so much to be thankful for.  We often see the negative, but for the majority of us, simply living here in the US puts you in a position for which to be thankful.  Go tour a 3rd world country in a rural region, and you will see what I am talking about. 

Here are my two quick stories that I always use to remember how good we have it:

• I was born in Brazil and on a visit there was amazed to see thousands of people basically living in cardboard boxes.  The next day the army had bulldozed the entire neighborhood into the ground. 
• My father worked there for 10 years as a missionary, and he always talked about a man and woman who lived in the small down but were never together.  One night he invited them to come as a couple for dinner.  The man refused saying that they only had one pair of shoes and the mountain was too rough for the other one to come down barefoot.  Imagine that!

Anyways, I thought I would go with a light-hearted entry for the holiday.  Both my kids have recently gotten shots and like adults with the dentist, they were not happy about it.  My daughter slipped out of the exam room, past the receptionist, out the building, and into the parking structure screaming before anyone caught her.  My son was so worked up that after the shot he almost passed out as his blood pressure dropped.  [Something the doctor said was common in teenagers but not with young kids.]

But, to top this off, I was telling a neighbor about this when she mentioned that when she was a kid she had a fear of needles.  She said one visit that the nurse couldn’t restrain her so the doctor held her.  The nurse went to give her the shot [in her but] but she kicked so hard that the nurse’s arm went off course and stuck the needle right in the head of the physician who was bent over holding her down on his lap.  [Hard to top that one.]