03-17-21 relief and anxiety coaster
Yesterday I was grateful that someone I had been in contact let me know that they woke up with a fever and had taken a Covid test. I tried hard to not stress about it but I was very concerned for two reasons.. they have a chronic condition and I was scheduled for a long awaited ultrasound today. Fortunately for both of us, later this evening I was informed the test came back negative. I was able to honestly tell them at the hospital that I have not been in contact with a confirmed case and get my test. The radiologist (?) was lovely and made it comfortable to go through. He also answered any questions I had but I didn’t ask if there was anything scary. It was a bit unnerving when he moved up from the mass behind my bladder to check both my kidneys and then decided he needed to do an internal ultrasound. I got ready while he called in another professional so there were not just two of us in the room. I must say the full internal tour today was pretty cool and also amazing to me that they can see anything and diagnose from it. All in all it took over a half an hour and it will take a couple days for results I was told. Once again I will try to stay off the anxiety wagon and hope I hear something before the weekend. The woman called in, Candace, had a good laugh with me when I was offered to put the wand in myself but I said it would feel much more clinical if he did it. In times of physical vulnerability, I always default to random jokes. I am grateful to our medical system though.
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