I did not enjoy it, not one little bit. Having to get up early in the morning without having a cup of tea to wake me up properly wasn't very nice (even de-caff tea helps) and then it was a bitterly cold morning, when I got to the hospital a very nice nurse took my blood, (and she did it so well it barely hurt! I was impressed!) but then I had to drink a bottle of very nasty tasting drink, which I just dealt with by drinking it very quickly, I then had a two hour wait until the next blood test...all of this was fine (not enjoyable, but fine) the problem came when about 10 minutes after drinking the nasty drink I started to feel sick and head-achy...over the next hour the nausea just built and built, I talked to one of the nurses and she was very nice about it, but told me that if I was sick we'd have to repeat the test on a different day...so I tried desperately to hold on for the next hour with intense waves of nausea building and building. I literally made it to the minute of two hours after I'd drunk the horrible drink before I had to run into the toilet, it was either that or throw up on Coyote's shoes. I told the nurse before she took the second lot of bloods and she said it should be OK, if the blood work was odd they'd have to repeat the test anyway. I've spent the rest of the day feeling really quite crappy, AND both my arms hurt from having the blood tests done (she was very good at taking blood, but I have tiny deep veins so it hurts afterwards whatever they do) so now I'm just really really hoping that I won't have to to it again! because that would really really suck. I should find out in the next week if anything is wrong. They are also testing me for all sorts of other stuff, like anemia and HIV and stuff. So fingers crossed for all of that as well.
yesterday I completely failed to get my whooping cough vaccination done, I went to the doctors to get it done, but I was a day early, you're meant to have it done from 28-38 weeks of pregnancy, and I was 27 weeks and 6 days. I didn't think it would make a difference, but apparently it does. not medically, but their insurance doesn't cover them if they are even a day early, so I've got to go back tomorrow and have it done then. All in all, I am feeling like this week is containing too many needles *sulks*
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