Another Trip to the Doctors

Today I got to spend a fortune dashing back and forth to the doctors to see the nurse. Again. Had a blood pressure test (oh, it’s still high) and an ECG.

She stuck the point pads on my ankles, wrists and then all over my chest. I hate lying back on those examination tables at the best of times but being prodded and poked in the, well, boob area really is not my idea of a cup of Earl Grey.

When she got the ECG machine out, with it’s multitude of wires hanging down my geek brain leapt like a new born salmon and my ‘let’s lighten the mood with a crap joke’ thing kicked in.

"Plugging me up to the Matrix are you?"

She stopped, looked at me like I had just lost my mind and the continued on, obviously deciding I wasn’t dangerous enough to be dragged off to a padded cell.

The test itself was short and sweet, the machine beeped in a regular and non scary fashion and she didn’t make any faces of horror.

(I, apparently when plugged in, am living a parallel life to my one in the real world (assuming this is the real world . How typical.)

I find out my results to this particular affair next week! BUT, the nurse did tell me there is nothing acute going on so we can take imminent death back off the schedule.

She started to take all the pads off again but the two on my ankles had decided they really liked where they were and became difficult about coming off. Later on I discovered some of the sticky glue stuff was still on my ankle and had been holding my trouser leg in place all day. Even better though, when I was getting undressed for bed tonight I found one of the pads still attached to me under my right breast. Lovely. My own personal souvenir of the event. Which I have now thrown away,

But because the unwritten rule is that you must come away from the doctors feeling worse than you did when you went in I missed one of the steps coming out and have done a weird twisty thing to my back, jarring it in some way so it now hurts like, well like everyone’s favourite four letter word beginning with F.

So roll on Gynaecology on Thursday!