Medical Round Two: Fight!

I pretty much beasted the rest of my medical stuff today in one big swoop. I had a 9:30 appointment this morning to get my Polio titers to prove I'm immune. The people at Student Health were bewildered at the titers, and decided it would be easier if I would just get the booster. This shot was the most painless I've ever had, didn't even feel it. The whole appointment took 6 and 1/2 minutes, so I decided to see if I couldn't schedule another appointment with a nurse practitioner to finish off the rest of the forms.

The woman I had today was awesome. She didn't mess around with this Mango allergy nonsense. I told her I couldn't remember what antihistamine they gave me back in 2007 in my hometown, so she filled in what is normally prescribed. Just to reiterate, what a stupid allergy. I got the signatures I needed, filled out my own appendectomy form the Peace Corps sent and wrote a short paragraph "statement" describing what happened. It's rather hazy in my memory being eight years ago. It's amazing how little you remember of things like that. The only time I've ever been hospitalized, and I can barely recall anything about it (except that I was on an all liquid diet afterwards which suuucked).

And then that was that. Everything has been filled out. Tomorrow I'm going to venture to a FedEx to fax all this shizz to my friendly, neighborhood Peace Corps Medical Team, and God willing, I will be able to finally be done with everything.

I will be incredibly thankful, because, as of now, I've felt like I've been in a Steel Cage Death Match with the whole medical thing. Right after I printed off my last form in the library today, I was walking down a staircase to leave and nearly slipped, but caught my footing. Prior to a reality check with myself, my first thought was "NO! If you break your arm, don't you know how many more forms that's going to take???" My second thought was, "NO! If you break your arm, don't you know how much money that will cost... that you don't have???" But, I've won this round, Medical!!!