much longer<\/em>\u201d was mainly just waiting … waiting … waiting.<\/p>\n3. The exam didn\u2019t bother me, or hurt, nearly as much as when I had a prostate exam. Prostate exams, at least for me, were much more offensive. And painful. In theory, they probably should still check to see if they can find my prostate \u2026 it should be itty-bitty-puny-tiny by now, but they didn\u2019t and I wasn\u2019t about to mention it.<\/p>\n
4. I ended up having a female doctor \u2026 a totally kewl chica. She\u2019s definitely a good fill-in for my aforementioned favorite knocked up doc.<\/p>\n
5. Honest to gawd, I must have been asked three times \u2026 \u201cDo you need a pap smear?<\/em>\u201d\u00a0Heck, I don\u2019t know !!! I don\u2019t even know what\u00a0a pap smear is \u2026 I think it requires parts which I don\u2019t have, i.e. a cervix, but I\u2019m just not sure. Regardless, having learned from experience, when\u00a0asked if I want something\u00a0which I have no idea what it is \u2026 I now just say no. Which I did, at least three times.\u00a0<\/p>\n6.My doctor said I had nice breasts. Thanks doc, thanks Dr. Z, thanks guys. She also liked my toenails … which are currently blue. Actually, most of the time they are some shade\u00a0of blue, except on occasion, I do paint them orange.<\/p>\n
7. She also said that my southern surgeon did good work and that if I didn\u2019t tell anyone, no one would know. I don\u2019t know about that. I think she was probably just blowing smoke. I tend to think all doctors say that about their patient\u2019s results, though I really don\u2019t care. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m looking at it. Nonetheless, she did comment \u2026 \u201cYou are a bit red<\/em>\u201d, to which I replied, \u201cYeah, I know, sometimes my dilator is a little rough with me.<\/em>\u201d She laughed. ![](\"http:\/\/amynews.com\/smile1.gif\")
<\/p>\n8. I had to get a tetanus shot \u2026 apparently at my doctor\u2019s offfice, if you haven\u2019t had one in 10 years, they want you to get a new one. The shot didn\u2019t hurt, but gawd is my arm ever sore where I got the shot now. I hope I don\u2019t bruise, \u2018cause I was planning on going sleeveless this weekend. Heh. I tried to bribe the nurse, I offered her $2, cold, hard cash<\/em>, to say she gave me the shot but to just toss it away in the disposable needle thingy. She wouldn\u2019t take it. She was still a worthy nurse. I liked her.<\/p>\n9. When I went to the lab to get blood drawn, the phlebotomist did an excellent job of drawing my blood. I honestly didn\u2019t feel it at all. \u201cGirl, you\u2019re the best blood sucker ever,<\/em>\u201d I said. She smiled, but didn\u2019t laugh.\u00a0I think she heard that one before.<\/p>\n10. I\u2019ve gained\u00a05 lbs since last year. Damn. Time to start puking again. Oh yeah, the check-in nurse did ask me \u201cAmelia <\/em>(they call me Amelia there), do you smoke?<\/em>\u201d Which I answered by recycling a line from Stripes which really doesn\u2019t even work in this setting, \u201cNo, but I\u2019m willing to learn.<\/em>\u201d She laughed. And it wasn\u2019t even a courtesy laugh, it was a sincere, hearty laugh. I think it was the first time she had heard that one. So sad. Seriously people, if any of you haven\u2019t seen Stripes, rent it. View it. It\u2019s a classic.<\/p>\nAnyways, I\u2019m not sure if this will work or not, and I know the volume is uber low as I was whispering during the recording of these, but if you can lip read, there\u2019s a boatload of sarcastic comments in these bits: Ahem \u2026 they aren\u2019t here yet, I can\u2019t get them to work. I\u2019ll keep trying though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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