A Re-PEAT trip to the Gynocologist....

Yay for me... I finally had my annual ladies' exam about three weeks ago, and just about a week afterward, got a call from one of the nurses at the Northwest Women's Health Center - a mill-like medical machine pushing preggos and women of all ages in one door and out the other with precision and applomb. What I initially thought was a call about the routine results of my exam soon revealed itself as a first for me. It seems that when they did the "scrape" - they didn't manage to get enough material. Now for those of the male persuastion who have never experienced the joys of a pap smear, lemme tell ya...try to imagine someone using a cat brush on the inside of your stomach and you'll just about have it there. Oh! And add to that the fact that the route to your stomach is through somewhere in the area of your ass. Anyway, I guess they didn't gouge me good enough, so I had to make an appointment to go back and get re-scraped. I did that this morning. My regular doctor, Tracy Johannsen, couldn't be bothered to do it herself, so I was left in the hands of a nurse practitioner.
The nurse practioner wasn't quite Nurse Ratched here, but more of a cross between her and Kathy Bates in Misery. I felt like this gal would have been more at home in a field hospital in WWII than in a gynecologist's office in downtown Seattle. But hey...I just needed to get my cervix scraped, so what did I care? I tried to explain it to the girl on the phone that I completely understood that Dr. Johanssen did about a hundred of these things a week, but that I only had one every 12 to 18 months, and hey... I was a little on the sensitive side.
They replied that they perfectly understood, but that if I wanted to see Dr. Johanssen, I would have to wait until mid-November to take care of it. Well SHIT! I wanted to have this thing over and done with. I had put it off as long as I possibly could in the first place. So, you can only imagine how happy I was when I went in there this morning to see Nurse Helga and saw Dr. Johanssen standing out in the hall laughing and talkign with her staff about the football game over the weekend while I got my cervix scraped by this concentration camp reject. But it's done. Hopefully the results will be in soon and will be all clear. But GRRRRRR.

Night night!