Warning: Flu Shots May Cause Your Toddler To Exhibit Bi-Polar Symptoms

A bit extreme, but you'll see what I mean after watching Josie's video blog, taken three hours post flu shot. I have to give props to our extraordinary ENT team who came to our small town that has one, I repeat ONE clinic that contains doctors from all walks of life; the same can be said about 70 percent of the patients. That being said, it is the ONLY office that houses pediatricians in a town of 16,000. And while I LOVE those pedis, I LOATHE their surroundings. It's like walking into a holding tank of germs and disease. By principle, I'm not a type "A" person. Who has time to be anal retentive when you're a single mom to two messy children? But I definitely fall into the "germa-phobe" category. I look like a drill Sargent gone awry when I take the girls to the clinic, literally following them around with anti-bacterial wipes, barking orders like "DON'T touch that!" and "Don't put that in your mouth!" And without fail, after each visit one of us will catch something the other showed no signs or symptoms before "visiting" the clinic. I'll stop before my soap box shoves me off the edge. I was over the moon that our ENT met us at a different locale, clean, breezy - the walls adorned with Renaissance-era paintings. The down side was the hour and a half wait. My girls don't do well in small, contained places. Sure, they have a ball, at the expense of other guests who will leave there wondering if they'll ever be able to hear again. Not to mention the magazines that got dumped over twice, the door Josie tried to escape out of three times in a row and the hysterical screams of two little girls as they finally got their flu shot. Put a big, fat fork in me.