it's been a year?

It had been a little over a year since my last physical check-up, which I wrote about here.

This year, I have no idea what Satoshi checked-off for my exams, but there was more things involved this year...

Besides the usual pee test and blood test, 2 days prior to my check-up I needed to provide samples for poop tests.

First time ever for me to do that...eep!

Another first was the chest x-ray and barium test...blah!

For the barium test, they make you drink a powder and then a shot of something and the powder turns to fizz..swallow quickly or you will gag!

Then take the barium...

The technician was excited to hear that it was the very first time for me to take the exam.

They put you on a table that is perpendicular to the floor and then the table brings you parallel to the floor and then at one point I was nearly upside down...oh, but the hardest part was flipping myself over to the doctor's commands (And I thought the machine would do all the work?!)

I'm glad I didn't throw up with all that movement.

After all the tests were done, they gave me two pills to take later to induce BM.

Then I had to go to another clinic for my pap smear.

The receptionist at the hospital says, "before you leave, you should take the pills now, so you won't forget"...um, if I take them now, I may need to use the bathroom by the time I reach the clinic...I told her instead, "don't worry, I won't forget!"

The last time, they shuttled me to the clinic for the pap smear but I guess that wasn't included this year, so I had to catch the train to the next station over.

So, it'll be another couple weeks before I get the results, in the meantime, I can't wait to eat!

UPDATE: mid-afternoon I get a call from Satoshi...the hospital called him and said that the poop tests weren't part of the check-up, can they just throw out the specimens?! or would we be willing to pay extra to have them analyze it?! WT?!

Satoshi was kinda pissed because it was their internal mistake and told them, if it wasn't part of the check-up then why did they send us the materials to take the test?! In the end, he said he demanded they analyze it at no cost...