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Arrived at docs office at 7:15, found a line in the waiting room. The lab it turns out is a new facility sharing a waiting room with a medical group. The lab is one person. So there is a wait time. I had to talk to the Phlebotomist, I didn't even know what a Phlebotomist was. Last week the Doctor told me, "I'm going order you up a bit of bloodwork." Well I have had blood work before, At L&M, you walk in, hand them the report your doctor gave you, you sit down and wait, they call your name, they take your blood, poof, you're done and down the road. That..is what I was expecting today. So I walked in, wrote my name on the list, sat down and waited, at 8:03 the Phlebo called my name. The phylblostorigistorichyzer proceeded to run two strip of stickers with bar codes. Then she informs me that I will be here a while...the glucose test is two hours.
She then took 26 vials of blood out of me. Had me pee in a tube. I had figured on eating breaky and going in to work 15, perhaps 30 minutes late.She set a timer for me..."In two hours", she said, "we'll take some more more blood". After the blood reduction I got to drink some Limeondex, sort of a very sweet very flat Sprite. Then she sent me to sit in the corner for two hours....No Smoking.
She came out two hours later and woke me up, "How can you sleep sitting up in these hard chairs?" she asked.
"You said I couldn't smoke". (If you are a smoker, you will understand).
Anyway, two more vials of blood removed and sent on my way. When I told Natalie what they were doing she texted me that she had that done when she was pregnant, then asked if I was. I told her it would explain the stomach.
Anyway, the tests check glucose, testosterone, Vitamins, etc. They have no idea what in particular I have causing the problem so they are looking at everything.
The vial caps are color coded because each has it's own contents already, from clotting material to glucose..
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