The Blood Floweth

Well, we had an interesting doctors visit this morning. We went to do blood work on both T and myself to make sure we don't have any diseases we could potentially pass to offspring. I gave blood first and it all went well. My blood flowed like the sound of Capistrano. I couldn't have been more proud! Then she went...

If the plan was for them to start taking blood, for T to pass out, and to scare her husband to the point where he needed to check his underwear afterward, it all went perfectly according to plan. Here's the thing. Remember my last post about how this would be worse for T than it was for me? Well if you missed it, it was way worse for her. They only took two vials of my blood. For T, they didn't have enough vials in the room so they had to go get more from the next room over. The nurse came back and laid 10 vials down on the table. She told the nurse about her history of passing out so she brought in reinforcements along with a box of smelling salts. She laid back and they prepped the arm. Needle went in, vial one success. Vial one came out, vial two success. Vial two came out, vial three success. Vial three came out... T very calmly announced, "HERE IT COMES"! It's a good thing there wasn't a fan in there cause the poo would have smashed it to pieces.

If you've never witnessed someone losing consciousness, it's not pleasant. If you've never witnessed your spouse going through it, it's scary and I don't recommend it. There is some remotely good news though. They took enough blood in the first three vials to be able to run all but two tests. Bad news is that she has to go give more blood to be able to complete the last two tests. Next time she does it they only need one more vial so hopefully the effects won't be long enough to get to her.

This coming Friday is the Hysterosalpingography (HSG). It's far too long to explain so READ HERE to see what it's all about. Basically, it's the test to make sure everything is as it should be downstairs. This is the first real procedure we've had to go through so please keep her in your prayers again for another week. Until next time...

~Scotty