I had dinner with Randell, Agnes, Ryan and Nonoy last Friday then had coffee afterwards where Mikey followed. Had a hearty laugh, as always. We even saw the top half of the fireworks at the pyrolympics from Gateway's top floor. Wish I could head there though. As always, I don't have the time and the means. Darn!
We had to leave a little after midnight though. Most of us hadn't had any sleep or have been through an entire exhausting day. I on the other hand, have both to consider plus the fact that I planned on going to Makati the following day to have my pre-employment medical.
4 hours later I was up and bustling again getting ready for Makati. I decided to take the LRT and just use the cab on my way home. The LRT ride reminded me why I wanted to stay in the night shift. The one that I was able to board doesn't have it's airconditioning up and all the windows were locked shut. Everytime the door would open, I could feel everyone breathing a sigh. And then it'll close again and we're all back the muggy sorry state of having to inhale what the person beside you just exhaled. I tell you, it wasn't that easy.
Then there's the overcrowding. After 3 stations I couldn't even imagine how I'd possibly be able to head out considering I'm just a seat away from the door. There seems to be dozens of women (i was on the women's cart) in front of the doors and there's no way I could squeeze myself out. It was great though that by the time we hit the Central Station, almost half of the people standing have already gone out and I knew it won't be too hard to head out once it's my turn.
Once I was off the train I head down and was deciding whether I'm gonna take a bus, fx or a cab. Well, I let the bus go, then I passed by the fx terminal and went straight to the cab after several minutes of staring at it. Relieved that I was able to get to the clinic without any mishaps, considering I'm quite good at collecting those when in commute, I had my physical.
My BP got checked, my temperature, standard height and weight measurement, x-ray, blood sample, urine test, drug test etc. I tell you I was quite calm with everything, especially since Paul told me they'd poke my butthole when doing the physicals. Well, my doctor just took a peek at my butthole and there were no poking involved. I thought I was safe.
Then I had this great idea of having myself checked thoroughly since Humana is an accredited Medicard clinic which is my current HMO, I asked if I could also get my regular dental cleaning and a visit to the OB-Gyne as approved by the doctor who first saw me. Unfortunately, the dentist is already overbooked for the day but I could see the gynecologist they said.
You see, I use to have regular periods but since August of last year it became really irregular. My cycles are now anywhere from 35 to 43 days according to my online calendar at mycycle.com. Ain't that 50% longer than most cycles? So I decided to have myself checked. Guess what, the doctor advised me that I have to have several tests so she'd be able to tell if it's just hormonal where she'd give me a drug to just jumpstart my system so it could get it's regular rhythm back or it's something much more serious like a thyroud problem or something wrong with my uterus or ovaries.
I was shocked of course that I actually have a 33% chance of getting a thyroid case or an ovarian and uterine problem. It's like Dana Reeves having lung cancer when she's not a smoker. Geez. So she signed off a form so the lab there could take another set of blood samples, ouch, and an intravaginal ultrasound, since as she explained its better than regular ultrasound cos they get to see my insides clearly.
The nurses went to work, phoning Medicard to get a clearance to do the procedures. They already took a vial of blood on my left arm and taking another set on the same vein might cause it to collapse and I know that so when they asked me to sit, I decided to give them my other arm. I went off the clinic with two sets of aching arms. I really, really hate needles.
Then I went straight to the ultrasound room where the lady there asked me to take another pee though I've already filled out 2 vials of it needed for my urine test and my drug test. I did and came back. She asked me to changed into a gown. Then she showed me the thing that she'd insert inside me. It wasn't so scary really. Plus the lubricant worked really, really well. Plus I got to see my insides. She said my uterus is "inverted" (I hope I heard her right) that's when I panicked. But she said, it's really normal that it's a bit further back. After taking shots of the different sides of my uterus we went to the ovaries.
Now that's when it started to hurt a bit. Imagine your ovaries, they're on both sides of you uterus and that means she has to move the instrument slightly facing my sides. The angle felt like my insides was being moved. The pain wasn't much, it's like just stretching some sore muscle, but it felt really really weird. Half an hour later, I stepped off the bed and went out. Until now though, I could still feel my insides as if it's been rearranged somehow. Sheesh.
I took a cab to SM Cyberzone after that so I could finally buy us a new optical mouse. Our old one got busted and only the right click works. Everyone was staring at the wads of cotton on both my arms to I decided to pull them off. That was a wrong move since I did it in the corridor. The moment I pulled one off the people stopped staring and looked away. Guess what, I didn't know there'd be that much blood on the cotton. Ugh. Well, I already took one off so I took the other one and went ahead to make my purchase.
Anyways...a lot of other things happened but I don't think anyone's interested anymore. Haha~ This isn't even worth reading. I'd be heading back next week to get the results of my tests and I hope it's really nothing serious. Please.
