I woke up just prior to the alarm ringing this morning and headed off to the hospital blood lab for the rest of my blood work. These are the tests that should be able to clue my doctor in if I am having any sort of liver problems or leukemia related issues..."the biggies".
Last night is the first time in my life that I have wrestled with the temptation to go internet surfing to start comparing my symptoms to dire possibilities for diagnosis. Fortunately I won the battle, shut my computer off before I could get searching and went to bed. I am blogging about this in order to divert myself from wanting to be tempted again today!
I could tell I was a bit hyper in the waiting room before my tests. haha I helped people find seats in the crowded waiting room, let an elderly lady go ahead of me for tests, located her missing glove before she left, directed a woman to a city lab since our local hospital no longer does her particular blood test....on and on, Little Suzie Helpful....or, more accurately, Little Suzie Motor Mouth. Our taciturn townsfolk in that waiting room were actually laughing and making jokes with and about me, it was that bad. One lady suggested I should wear a sign to let everyone know I was the person with the answers to all their questions and needs that morning......sigh.....she said it with great good humour but I was kind of embarrassed.
We used to have a poster on our office wall many moons ago. It was a photo of a wild looking orangutan, arms thrown over his head and a panicked look on his face. The caption said, "I gotta learn to relax!" Next time I go for tests at the hospital I have to adopt that very idea! Aiiiii yiiiii.....
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