His First Blood Test

Sorry for long entry but this was the first emotional day for me.

I hated this day, its probably going to put me in tears writing it. I'm sure a lot of you reading this are mothers yourselves and hate seeing your child in pain.
We had to drive from Pakenham to Warragul (40mins drive for people who might not know) for this test twice,the first one we turned up on a Friday and got told they couldn't do one of the blood tests on that day as the test had to be run the next day and the lab was shut on Saturdays. I wasn't overly happy about this but really what could you do, then when we went back the following week we got told it was a mistake they could of done the test on the Friday.
So back to the test, Alex wasn't even a little worried, i guess it helped that we went in there once and nothing bad happened. He was so brave the needle when it and he didnt even cry, this would of been great if this was the end of it, but they didn't get enough blood as his blood just stopped flowing.
The second was much much worse, he knew what was coming and they used a butterfly needle this time. My poor little man was screaming and trying to pull it out and i was having to hold him down, i managed to stay strong for a bit but seeing my boy in pain was bad enough let alone holding him down while they hurt him. He was looking at me with such a sad face, so much expression, to me the face said why are you letting them hurt me mummy (tears are falling as i write this). He managed to pull it out and they still didn't have enough blood, I'm so grateful for the lovely lady's in the warragul bloods place. All of us didn't want to give him another needle if we didn't have to, so they rang the lab to see if what we managed to get so far would be enough and lucky it was.
The 40 min drive home wasn't much fun for me, i got told by the other half to stop looking at Alex, as every time i did he would hold out his little arm and say ouch mummy. I just felt so bad. His bloods all come back clear so sometimes it feels like that day was for nothing. That was a long post thanks for sticking with me.

My Little Mans Bruise After Only An Hour :(