Thursday, August 27, 2015

Stay off WebMD

So my boyfriend and I are officially trying to start a family so I started this week long journey of blood tests, the obligatory annual, and a mammogram tomorrow.  Here at St. Pete's where I work we have what's called the Patient Portal where you can get test results.  Many of you may know how impatient I am so when I kept checking my results and nothing was there I decided to call medical records and ask if they had anything on me yet, and of course some results had come in and were being sent to my doctor; so you are able to get a copy of those if you sign a medical release; which of course I did.  BAD IDEA.  AWFUL.  I just assumed after working for doctors my whole career I could read the jibberish that is test results.  Wrong.  So I go back to my desk and start trying to decipher the hieroglyphs on WebMD and successfully convince myself I am dying of some horrible disease and that I will never be able to be a mom and have my little family I've dreamt of forever.  Alright, so I call my doctor and they tell me she is in clinic for another couple of hours but that she will call me back. 

The wait was horrendous, and the more I thought about it the more upset I became.  So my doctor calls exactly when they said she would and she's talking to me like she hadn't gotten the message about me already seeing some of the results.  "So Sam I got your results back on some of the tests, and all is well and I see no problem with you conceiving naturally and there was no issue on your lab or ultrasound".  I replied "What, but I read the report and it says..", she responds with "How did you see the results", and I explained I couldn't wait, she said, "Stay the hell off WebMD Sam"!  lol  So yeah, freak out much?  WHEW but hey at least I know I am good to go, and 100% healthy as I assumed until my curiosity got the best of me.

Moral of the story:  Curiosity gave the cat an anxiety attack, but didn't kill it!

So we will know by 9/15 if we are pregnant this cycle, and if we are; it'll be due 5/22/16 and named either Abbey-Marin or Finnian-Elijah.  I already have our Pinterest and Amazon wish lists started!  I told Shawn about my desire to do a pregnancy Vlog from live pregnancy test to the full birth but I will keep up my posts here throughout what I hope will be a healthy pregnancy.

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