Shock the chiropractor

Recently, Lastborn's teacher has begun a campaign to have him put on ADD drugs. Now, she is fully unqualified to do this and she knows just how far she can go in this pursuit. But luckily, so do I. Believe me, if I felt that he needed the drugs, I would put him on them.

However, recognizing that her job is not easy (remember, there is a reason I dubbed him Lastborn in this blog), I am pursuing ways of making her life more wonderful that stop short of placing him on meds. To that end, I attempted to bring him to a wonderful chiropractor. Not that I feel that chiropractic cures everything, but if his wriggling is the result of a sore spine, let's just get that fixed and move on with life.

Lastborn was far from the compliant patient. The whole experience left him so nervous that I was beginning to give those meds a second look.

He would not sit still, he would not listen. Overall, he presented worse than what the teacher was describing. While I joke about Lastborn's behavior, one of the reasons why he is still alive after these last 7 years is because he never acts this way for me.

Of course, a visit like this is bound to provide blog quotes. Isn't it?

The chiropractor had this wonderful life size replica of a spine with little rubber tubes standing in for nerves. Lastborn was fascinated and began asking questions. Was it real? Was it the spine of a snake? Did he remove that spine from one of his patients? The chiropractor was patiently responding to these questions and enjoying the whole interaction until Lastborn popped out the following quote:"

I saw a real spine once and I touched its wiener!

I looked over the table to where the chiropractor was covering his face with his hand, his body jerking slightly with suppressed laughter.

"Something tells me you don't hear that from all your patients." I said.

At that point, he lost all semblance of composure and told me that his wife should really get a look at this one.

That statement left me wondering if maybe he and his wife had a fight that morning and he was just thinking of a rare and unique way of getting her back or if he wanted to just share the "joy" of this rare child.

We'll find out next week. . .