Actually, that's a lie.
I don't really love hospitals.
But I AM grateful for them!
I have now been to hospitals in 3 different countries on 3 continents, and although I hope I get to travel more....I would certainly be fine stopping the list of hospitals there :)
This time it wasn't anything serious; I just needed a blood test. Another girl in our group has had a weird/sharp/constant pain in her side for a few days and wanted to get it checked out, so yesterday she and I went with Lisa and Geovana to the hospital.
And by "hospital" I mean "hospitals" because we ended up going to 4.
The first one had a waiting time of several hours.
At the second one, they told us there were only four people in front of us in line. After about 20 minutes of waiting, Geovana came and told us we were leaving, because not ONE of the four had gone. (Turns out, they were on some sort of shift-change or something, and the doctors weren't actually going to start seeing patients for another half hour, or something like that...) So we tried again.
The third one was ridiculously expensive.
The fourth one was a success!
All I needed was a blood test, but you need a doctor's recommendation. So after a short talk with the doctor, during which he informed me that he didn't think my problems were serious enough to need a blood test, but he'd go ahead and give me one just to be safe. Oh, and he said that the pain and stuff I've been having will just come and go for the rest of my life.
Awesome, right?
Well, I still haven't gotten the results from the blood test, but I'm pretty sure they'll come back normal. At least, I hope they do! Either way though, I'm in a surprisingly good mood. I wish there were something they could do to stop the pain (or that I could just not be a baby about it ;), but life is good.
I have two legs. I can run. I can throw a ball. I can breathe and eat and think for myself. They seem like little things, but they really are huge blessings.
And I think that makes me pretty lucky :)
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