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| I love this photo of her echocardiogram. She was so calm. |
We saw the same Zen Master who monitored her previous echo. Niko seemed to recognize him, or his energy, right away. He explained to me that if a child has a good experience with him upon the first visit, he/she will always have good subsequent visits. And vice versa, if the child was terrified during the first visit, the child will freak out at all other visits. Even if the patient is only a few weeks old on first visit, the child will respond the same way to him for all other visits throughout the patient's life. And he's been specializing in pediatric cardiology for over 20 years.
He also asked me to notice the shifting of Niko's eyes when I laid her down on the bed. He said, "I wait until I see, in their eyes, that they are settled down. You see right now she is still scanning the room, meaning that she is not ready for me to start……. There. Now she had recognized me, and she's settled into a comfortable space. I can begin." He was so calming that I was ready myself to curl up on the chair and sleep.
But look at Niko in this photo. The room was dim. There was a soft buzz tone all around. There was a monitor with flashing lights of red and blue. And a tender gentle man was rubbing her chest. She was in heaven. I did not even mention that she got three vaccine shots in her thighs just moments before this appointment. She went from painful screaming to bliss. This man must have a PhD in zen mastery.
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