Of Blood Tests and Food
So apparently you should always make sure that you have eaten recently before seeing a doctor, and definately make sure you have had a fair amount of fluids. As the woman at the blood lab said, “a doctor tends to take something out of you, so make sure you put something in before they take something out.”
All of this information I was given after *mostly* fainting while they were drawing blood just now. Lets see if I can count all the times this has happened… There was the time it happened in the middle of my sister’s wedding, the time it happened in the middle of Algebra II, and I’m pretty sure there’s another time it happened this severly. Of course, I’ve had the whole ‘heading towards fainting’ thing happen a fair few other times. Oh well, at least this time they gave me a free lunch and paid for my parking garage ticket ;D.
I have to say though, the more I’ve been thinking about modern medicine and all these specialists and what not, the more convinced I become of the fact that the human body generally sucks. We think we’re so evolved and such a marvel and such great species, and yet we have to go to all these doctors who are really just guessing at what the problem actually is. They don’t know! They kinda make a few guesses, and then they throw some pills at you or start cutting you up and taking out your blood and organs and what-not. You don’t see animals opening practices for each other in the jungle do you? If we were really so great as a species, our bodys would be able to fix themselves; we wouldn’t need teeth to be sealed or pulled, we wouldn’t need blood tests or immunizations, they wouldn’t have to shove stuff into every possible hole to try to figure out whats wrong… hell, they wouldn’t even have a job because we wouldn’t need anyone mucking about in our bodies!
And I still want to know what happened to that hypospray-esque device I read about five to eight years ago that was supposed to replace needles?! Can someone get on that please?
*sigh* I guess my dad was right; maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to make dinner plans after this doctor appointment. Funny how a simple consultation can turn into fainting, aint it?
-K