blood & needles

written on the 7th of April 2015


since we did the pregnancy test on Good Friday, it was the long weekend. we had to wait till today when everything operates are per usual. was a bit skeptical that we wouldn't get an appointment, figured it'll be fully booked but thank God it wasn't.

went for the doctors appointment and while we were registering ourselves in the clinic, i saw a pregnant doctor (who was also quite pretty i must say) coming out to call a patient in. immediately i prayed and said "God, i want her. or some other female doctor that is nice." and i really got her. haha she was really down to earth. quite easy to talk to. but it seems that she loves to talk because i couldn't get a word in haha but i knew i wanted a female doctor. i'm uncomfortable having male doctors even though i heard that they are better than female ones. so anyway...

we mentioned to her that we took the home pregnancy test and her face was like ahuh...so why are you coming in here for? haha she looked so clueless as to why we were there. she said usually home pregnancy tests are pretty accurate especially since we took 2 tests! haha but in the end she mentioned that we should do a blood test. now, here's the thing... in my whole life, i've never gotten a blood test before. nobody has ever intentionally drawn blood from me, obviously this made me nervous like hell...! i asked whether it was necessary and she said yes! *tears*

so we were directed to another room where they took blood samples. this chinese aunty was the one who did it for me and i must say she didn't seem too friendly. i was so scared and nervous and tensed up. i couldn't even look at what she was doing to me, i had to look away. apparently from what i've read, this is not my 1 and only blood test. apparently there's more to come. oh yay me!!

so anyway, even though i didn't look. i could hear the blood gushing out into the tubes. it hurt when she stuck the needle in and hurt a lil when she was switching the tubes. but it was all over before i knew it. not a fan of it seriously. not a fan

after taking my blood samples, she seem to have soften up a lil. put cotton wool on it with a tape. oh boy. the sticky tape was even more painful that getting poke by the needle. taking it off was like waxing. i had to get the husband to tear it off because it was too painful for me to handle. so because i'm going to be working the next few days and we've been told that we had to wait a few days for the results to get back, we made the next appointment for monday. i guess that's when we will know better. like the due date and set up further appointments and even choose a hospital. it's all getting so so real!