First jab

We only have two more days to wait until Jacob comes home. We still need more training from St Mary's though. Today we practiced more with the syringe and hypodermic. They gave us an orange and some needles with a vial of saline. We turned that poor orange into a pincushion we practiced some much. Christina then was asked to prove her competence by giving Jacob a shot of Lovenox. She was brave and a good study as it went well with little crying from Jacob (and myself). She said it was totally different from the orange as there was a lot more resistance with skin; something I will, no doubt, have to find out for myself. I don't relish the thought of jabbing my son every twelve hours, but it has to get done.
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