First Impressions - Nov 4, 2009

This post was originally written on Wednesday, November 4th after my first visit to my RE.

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At 9:00am I got into my car and started to drive to the place that will soon become like a second home to me. I had Taylor Swift playing in the CD player and I sang along so I wouldn’t be nervous. But, it’s funny, I wasn’t feeling nervous at all, just excited for my new life to begin. After the last two years of going to medical appointments to make me well, this time I was going to a medical appointment that I wanted to be going to for me!

I found the building easily and was soon seated in the neutral coloured waiting room. The staff seemed pleasant and friendly and the doctor walked by and waived at a patient waiting. She happened to be wearing the same hoodie as me, too :). I had brought a book to read, but I wasn’t able to read more than two pages. It was probably because I haven’t been enjoying the book as it is, but I was also feeling too distracted to even browse the magazines.

Even though I was one of the first to arrive to the waiting room, I was one of the last taken. I think that was because most people were there for monitoring and I was a new patient. One neat thing that happened was a couple with a baby came in to thank the staff and to bring a picture for the wall of celebrations. They were so grateful to the staff and the doctor. It was really nice to see.

When it was finally my turn, the doctor introduced himself, shook my hand (in these days of H1N1?!?), and apologized for being delayed.

He went through my medical history and told me quickly about sperm banks. I will definitely need someone to talk to me more slowly about that. He also told me that I will need to meet with a social worker as do all of the patients in the clinic. After that, I had a physical and then had about 10 vials of blood drawn.
Before I knew it, I was on my way home. I am currently on meds to bring on AF so that I can be monitored. So now my biggest worries are is this monitoring going to affect my Remembrance Day presentation and the trip to Pioneer Village? Plus, I have parent-teacher interviews coming up soon.

All in all, I have now moved out of the “Thinking” phase into the “Trying” phase. I have three new books on this topic to keep me occupied, and hopefully start lulling me into an earlier bedtime.