Hello. This is my first post on mumsnet. Does anyone have any experience of dealing with a special needs child who will not take a pre-med and gets totally hysterical? Our son (12) who has learning difficulties and has speech/lang problems was meant to have an op for an undescended testicle today and I warned the hospital he freaked out at having the magic cream put on his hands, let alone anything involving needles (past experience of trying to get blood samples) so they agreed to give him pre-med calming medicine. He was meant to be early on the operating list but they forgot to give him his premeds and so dropped him down the list - by the time it came to his meds we had been in the hospital for over 4 hours and waiting for the premeds for 2.5 hours. He refused the medication, became first tearful then hysterical and even with us trying to hold his hands out of the way it was not possible to get the premeds into him as he refused to open his mouth and was kicking out and fighting. It was awful for him and we just couldn't calm him down. We had to give up on the operation today and he's meant to be being relisted. I just don't know how anyone is going to get him sufficiently calm to face the operation- which he really needs to have. The nurse suggested seeing a counsellor but I don't know if this will help because of his learning and speech problems - he has a mental age of about 5. Has anyone had a similar experience and can offer some advice please?
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LizT123 · 22/06/2011 19:56
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