Today I sat in the doctor’s office from 9:30 until 1:00. It was pretty dull. I had to go and get lab work done to find out if I have gestational diabetes. Last week I did the one-hour test which involves drinking this extremely high sugar drink that tastes like flat orange soda and then an hour later having your blood drawn. That wasn’t so bad. But then the clinic called and said my gluclose levels were pretty high and so they wanted me to take the long test to be sure. The long test sucks. You go to the doctor and they draw blood. Then you drink the flat orange soda. Then they give you a timer set for an hour and tell you to come back to the lab when it beeps (but you can’t actually leave the clinic). then they take blood again. You repeat this process until you have had blood drawn four times in one morning. Oh, and I had to stop eating at 9:00 last night so from 9:00 p.m til 1:30 the next day all I had was water. And all the magazines at the doctor’s office had way too many pictures of food in them.

Today was also the day at the clinic that they were giving out flu shots to senior citizens and “high-risk” patients - mostly kids. That was pretty entertaining. Most the old people were losing their hearing so they were shouting to each other and the staff had to shout at them and it was extremely loud in the waiting room. The kids on the other hand were just crying about getting a shot, adding to the general din of the room. There was one patient who was my favorite. He was about 4 years old and had been in a few months ago for allergy shots or something and so his mom decided not to tell him what he was in for this morning. Well, his turn came and they went back and you could hear him screaming from the waiting room. “I DON’T WANT A SHOT!” after about 2 minutes you hear the nurse and his mom say something like “It’s okay, it’s all done now.” And then you see the door to the lab slam open, the kid come storming out, and walk straight out the front doors. His mom was rushing after him, carrying his sister telling him to wait because his sister still needed her shot. His reply was “Oh NO! I’m not waiting here!”