Hiyaaa. I got my sheet of medicals to do for my VISA. Holy Moly there are A LOT! I've booked my dentist appointment for next week but I went for my blood tests yesterday - HIV/Hep B/Syphillis. CUE MAJOR FREAK OUT. FOR NO REASON.
I've never been a freak around blood until last year, I think. So getting my blood taken was just minging.
I went the day before to get it done after work (2nd Sept) as I had to go to a Sexual Health Clinic rather than the GP's as the GP said "We don't do tests for employment purposes". Hmph. So anyhow, off to he SHC I went only to be told "You've just missed the Nurse by ten minutes! You can try the other clinic a few streets away to see if there's another Nurse there or not" so off to this other Clinic I went. I got there and told Reception that I was emigrating and I needed these blood tests and the girl goes to see the Nurse upstairs who said that "today we're just doing family planning - contraception etc but you can make an appointment with her for tomorrow at the Clinic you've just been to as she'll be there, then. If you go upstairs she'll have a word with you and book you in" so I went upstairs and started talking to her about Dubai etc and then I burst in to tears! lol! I was having SUCH a panic attack over these three diseases.
"BUT WHAT IF I HAVE THESE DISEASES - MY LIFE IS OVER! THE DREAM IS OVER! DUBAI WON'T LET ME IN!!!"
"Denise..."
"NO! I'M SO PARANOID ABOUT TOUCHING THINGS IN CASE THEY ARE DISEASED, I'M SUCH A FREAK WAAAAAAAA"
"Denise! Unless you've slept with twenty African heroin users I wouldn't even consider you to be a risk for any disease."
"But my great great Grandma had Syphillis! She died from it! SHE DIED! Could I have it?!"
"No Denise..."
So anyhow she told me to stop looking up information on the internet cos I was only scaring myself and I had to go to the Clinic I'd just been to the following day. Off I went yesterday (3rd Sept) and filled out a form and I sat and waited. The same Nurse I saw yesterday asked me in the room and I sort of walked in embarrassed and said "Sorry for being such a weirdo yesterday..." and she just laughed lol. Anyway she took my blood after spending ages trying to aggravate my veins as they were tiny, they're off to the lab in the local hospital now to be tested and I'll get a text saying positive/negative in the next seven to ten days.
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
