As Ashley and I finish up the home stretch of home study prep, I think I need to speak to one of the more light hearted moments in this process. Part of our paper work required recent physicals, but we had never found a primary care provider since moving the Kansas City in 2008. After finding a doctor with whom we felt comfortable, we scheduled our appointments for last Thursday, March 1st.
It was the typical physical fare, but the physician wanted us to take a TB (tuberculosis) skin test. I've never had one of these tests because I was pretty sure I haven't had nor currently do have tuberculosis; but we scheduled this final test for last Monday, March 5th. Now, the premise of this test is to have a special solution injected just beneath your top layer of skin. I didn't know this going into the test. I assumed something more in line with a petri dish. The injection creates a bubble in your skin. Well, it looks more like there's buried treasure in your arm. If you doubt me, use the magic of the internet and take a peek. All I could think of during the injection was blowing bubbles in milk.
Don't meditate on that visual for too long. It's a little weird.
We have our results read tomorrow.
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ReplyDelete1. thats creepy. i get your milk bubbles, but i totally was thinking of the Scary Stories books in the school library that talked about spider eggs being laid below peoples skin and popping and baby spiders coming out.
2. was that too much?
3. i like the clever title, TB or not TB. it made me smile.
4. :)
5. bye!
6. do you have it??
Fear not, neither Ashley nor I have TB.
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