Today i went to the hospital to get a physical. they took two vials of blood after telling me not to eat. Then sent me upstairs with no further instruction. A nurse pushed me into a room where a lady shoved me at a scale then stopped me then pushed me back onto the scale and height measurer. Then I was led to an ultrasound machine where the lady put the cold gel on my stomach and jabbed her scanny thing against me and rubbed it around like a two year old playing with a crayon. Then she threw toilet paper on my stomach...they don't differentiate papers here so toilet paper is napkins, tissues are toilet paper and all that jazz...told me to roll on my side and did it all again. It was cold and uncomfortable and very ticklish. I don't know what she was looking for, my baby, my organs, to see if I am human, I don't know.
Then after that I got a heart and pulse scan thing, An ECG or whatever. Basically the nurse said "this is the second foreigner we have had yet today" and sighed and got fed up with me not knowing what she wanted and pushed my bra and my shirt over my face and stuck some weird stuff on my chest. I could understand her as she and her nurse buddy laughed at the WaiGuoRen.
Then they X-Rayed me. No protective vest things. I don't know what they were looking for there too. I definately had metal in my bra but the doctor was just like merp, don't care even though the sign told me I couldn't take an X-Ray with it. Afterward when they were calling me back into the office, instead of calling my name like they did with everybody else, they call MeiGuoRen, or American.
One on ones with the Chinese teacher. I thought I would be late to my one on one but I hadn't eat since lunch the day before so I stuffed my face and ran to the school building only to find out that the one on ones were running over and that I had to wait an hour to see my teacher. The run made me almost vomit. Not fun.
I started Calligraphy, then went to Dicos for dinner, its Chinese knock-off KFC.
The rain stopped today and the blue sky was visible as well as the moon. I discovered that the Picmen around town are actually supposed to be pomegranate seeds.
This happened to me too! I don't know why they tell you not to eat, it just increases the chances of passing out. I felt so woozy after mine that I had to sit down for like ten minutes. And yeah it seemed like they didn't care about the results at all. Even if you had a baby they probably wouldn't have found it! Gotta love being an American in China...
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