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 "If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got."

Ed Foreman

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Well Woman

I decided to go for one of these Well Women Assessments. Not because I thought I had anything radically wrong with me, but I’ve reached that age where things don’t work as well as they used to.

I have tried to deny it’s because I’m getting older, but with my husband constantly telling me it is, I have given in and accepted it. Its because of things like back ache, tiredness and sometimes not feeling 100%, but not feeling actually poorly.

The assessment covered ‘women things’, blood tests, height, weight, blood pressure, body mass index, body fat and also a mammogram.

The people at the hospital were lovely and made me feel like I was a special customer (which is how all customer service should be, but don’t get me started on that).

It was all going really well until I had to do a sample. Straight forward you would think especially as they gave me a styrofoam cup so plenty of width to not be able to miss.

I did my sample and was holding it in one hand while sorting myself out with the other and took my eye off the ball, so to speak.

I looked up in horror to realise I had the sample at a precarious angle and yes, you’ve guessed it, it was pouring all over the floor.

I started mopping and washing the floor while trying to decide if I had anything left in me to give the nurse.

So there I was when I heard some people outside the door trying to get in. They were talking about how people can get themselves locked in - yikes were they going to crash the door down to rescue me? (That would have been a scene they wouldn’t have forgotten.)

I managed another drop, checked my clothes to make sure I was all dry, checked the floor to see I hadn’t missed anything, checked my foot where some had splashed (yuk) and with one glance around I saw that I had left everything clean.

Hurray, I took my tiny sample and went and sat back down in the reception area. I put the sample out of danger by my bag, pulled out my magazine and to my (second) horror I realised my sandal was wet from you know what down the side.

I knew the toilets were already engaged so surreptitiously I had to get a tissue out of my bag and mop up without alerting any of the people who were already sitting near me.

Oh the stress of it all. Surprisingly my blood pressure was normal!

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