Nurse $200

I was really hoping to save this job for cold and flu season, but it was definitely the dominant theme of the day!
The only thing worse then having a child who doesn't feel well is knowing that you have to take that child's temperature...
It is a dreaded decision. Do I go the most accurate way or the easy way?
I'm a total chicken. I take it under the armpit every time.
Especially when I know that she has a doctors appointment in the afternoon, because I know they are going to take a rectal temperature and I just can't bring myself to put her through that twice in a day.
I know, I know, I should totally get over it but I can't.
In theory I'm a grown woman who understands that it's a more accurate reading and provides the best "data" for the nurses that we see later on in the day, in practice I'm a wimp.
If my daughter cries because I told her "no", I'm over it in a nanosecond. If she cries because I took her temperature rectally it takes me 3 weeks to not feel like a bad person.
So I was a nurse today, but a very incompetent one.