Morning At The East Surrey Hospital

This morning I had to go to the East Surrey Hospital to have a cortisol test. I have to fast for 12 hours before so I couldn't have any breakfast or anything after 9 pm the previous night.

Sophie was in a very,very bad mood in the morning for no apparent reason. When asked why, she refused to say and then later on she screamed that no-one even cared why she was in a bad mood. Little kids eh? ;)

When she asked if she should come with to the hospital I said ''I think you'll be bored but you can come.'' At this she started sobbing saying no-one wanted her to come. Then after much debating and tears she came with, still crying. Once mom managed to give her a Calpol tablet she became much more cheery. She is quite ill..which might explain her behaviour.

Anyway once we got to the hospital I was checked in immediately an went to a ward and had to lay down on one of the hospital wards. I must say making the bed go up and down was quite fun. :]

Me on the rather uncomfortable hospital bed.

My ''Dead Face'' I was bored..

Me and Soph

After a few minutes one of the nurses came in to put ''magic cream'' on the backs of my hands. This was meant to numb my skin for the injection.

The waiting was so boring! The ''magic cream'' alone took 45 minutes to numb my skin. Then the doctor came in to give me an IV on my hand! It was so sore! Then when I thought it was over she had done it wrong and had to do it again on the other hand! The pain came again but it didn't work this time either! On the hands already to large bruised bumps had formed. The doctor then decided that she would have to do it in the arm where there was no ''magic cream''-not that it did much help anyway. This was sore much not nearly as much as in the hand. The doctor apologized saying she normally didn't have to do three attempts and that she prides herself on how well she normally does it...Which is a little worrying. Her excuses were that I had ''unusually tough skin (always nice to hear) and that the magic cream isn't actually meant to go on the back of your hand unless your a baby. Whoo for the nurse. Not.

Then I was told that I had to wait an hour before they could actually do the blood. A whole hour.
The nurse then came in telling me I had to have another injection. Right after the doctor had assured me that I wouldn't have to have anymore. I also guess she missed out the fact that it would be going into the muscle and injecting stuff that stings inside your body feeling horrible. It was really, really painful.

Over periods of 3o minutes my blood was collected. Then once all that was done 12 o'clock now, they said I had to rest for half an hour and hat I could finally eat! I was starving at this point. So mom went downstairs to buy me some lunch only to find that the cash machine was out of order and that the cafe didn't take a card. So we would have to wait until out of the hospital to get some lunch. While I was still ''resting'' the nurse asked if I had had any food yet, mom told them the story and then replied ''Oh, well you can go home then.'' While in the baby in the bed next to me got a full meal. Not me though.

Afterwards was nice because we went out to lunch which was nice and mom bought me a necklace from Accessorize. I do love that store. :)

By the way, I appologise, I do sound whiny but it wasn't very pleasant.