What is it about being touched....

that sets my 2 year old off? I wish I knew. Charlie is pretty happy around people unless they touch him at which point he has a complete meltdown. So for the most part we avoid touching. The family knows this and knows if they pick him up, he will likely scream. He is getting used to everyone and handles it better but when it comes to strangers, come prepared with earplugs.

It makes life a little difficult when we have to go to the doctors office as we have been doing a lot with him being so sick this past month. If they could diagnosis him by looking at him, we would all be happy. Too bad it is not that easy.

So at our visit to the doctor today I am sitting in the room with Charlie and the nurse. She is commenting on how adorable he is and what a happy child. She has not had such a happy child in her space for a while. I chuckle a bit and tell her that it is about to change just as soon as she comes any closer. You can tell she does not believe a word I say when she smiles at him and reached right out to listen to his lungs.

Charlie immediately goes limp, starts crying and doing everything he can to get away from that nurse who he has all of the sudden decided is some kind of monster come to get him. She pauses for a moment at which point I tell her just to continue because it will not get any easier.

So we get through all of the important stuff, with him screaming the entire time. Just as soon as the nurse backs away, my happy child is back. This time the nurse chuckles and says to me, you are right about him having a little stranger anxiety.

That was some kind of understatement in my book!

On a good note we have ruled out all kinds of things and determined that Charlie has Asthma and is allergic to cats. Both things we can manage to handle.