Warning: Girl Talk

Warning: GIRL STUFF. JAKE, UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR EYEBALLS TO BLEED, YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP THIS POST. Merry Christmas. Don't say I didn't warn you.

This  blog is so very much like a menstrual cycle - once a month, painful when it gets here and just keeps on bleeding even when everyone thinks it should just stop. Speaking of menses, I'm pissed that I'm still getting mine. I had my HSG yesterday. It went well. I should get the results tomorrow. It was defiantly interesting. I find it really different to be a patient. Some observations from the table:

1. Before the nurse found out that I was a PA she explained to me what my uterus was, how it was shaped and what to look for on the monitor. (I got to watch the whole thing - pretty cool.) She was really good. But after she found out that I was "in the business" she quit explaining things.

2. When the nurse asked if I had questions she was taken aback when I asked what her name was. No offense but if you are going to look at my innards I want to at least be on a first name basis. I always make an effort to introduce myself, and can see why it's important now.

3. There was also a Radiologist Assistant Student there. I wish she had done the speculum exam instead of the doc. I don't like male non gynecologists doing my speculum exam. They have no idea what they are doing and inevitably hurt and have no shred of understanding. He was a nice guy, but well, a radiologist.   They also really need stirrups on the x-ray table. I never realized how difficult it is on the patient when you have no stirrups. I generally have to put my ER patients on a towel covered bedpan and then let them brace their feet against the stretcher rails (no functional stirrups on the ER stretcher.) Just spreading them without any help was sort of difficult.

4. "You will feel a little pressure" = "This is going to hurt like hell."

5. "You might feel some mild cramping and have mild spotting for the rest of the day" = "You will hurt like hell for the rest of the day. Furthermore I hope that you have bought shares of Kotex."

The radiologist said he thought everything looked good and the tubes were open (but no official report yet). This procedure also helps flush them out and make it easier to get pregnant. So I guess poor J will just have to work harder.

Comments

[Steff]

1) Poor, poor J. Send him my condolences on all of the hard work he is about to have to do.

2) I'm sorry you had to do that. It doesn't sound pleasant. I'm glad the plumbing seems to be in order though. I'll call you soon!

[christie]

Yay for my exam tables with stirrups!!!! Sorry it sucked, glad it's probably okay. Hope you're in a family way oh so soon, but don't hurt J trying to get there...fella's gotta have a break occasionally.

Miss you!!!!

[henry littlefields]

I don’t know what to say about a pit of grills. It seems like something should be said. I don’t know though what should be said other then there were a lot of grills left from when tenants moved away and didn’t want to take their grills with them. I felt sorry for all these grills. They were orphan children. They deserved a better life. Someone should give them a parade.