Warning! TMI

For those of you who don't know TMI is Too Much Information. And in this case it is too much information about myself and my body... so if you want to stop reading now please do. But if your brave/female feel free to take a gander.

So I'm a procrastinator. I'm pretty sure I was born with it. You'd think that since my mom is type A and my dad is a list maker I'd combine that to make a lethal force of getting things done. Nope. It backfired and I procrastinate. So I got married a year ago... you know what that means.. my female doctors appointment (by this I mean an exam with a gynecologist. I'm going to stick with calling it a female doctor's appointment.) was over a year ago... you know what that means?? for the last month I've been putting of finding a new female doctor here in utah and going. And do you know what the final straw was? What finally forced me just do it?? Well last Friday my birth control pack ended so last Wednesday I went to refill it... my presription had expired three days previous. UH-OH. So they tried calling the doctor I had gone to last year but Friday came and I still couldn't get my prescription. I had made my doctor's appointment but it wasn't in time. Gasp. What is Margaret going to do... have a kid.... gah NO!

So I take Yaz which is the new and improved version of Yasmine. Well it just so happens that I had some old expired packs of Yasmine on hand. So I decided to just take them. Now I've heard stories about girls getting pregnant because they had switched pills and failed to take other precautions. So I was sure to take other precautions. Now as those of you who are of the female variety know a great joy comes at the end of every pill pack.. Aunt flow, the painters, your flower.. call it was your will... your period. So as I am every 28 days or so I was exstatic when the monthly miracle of womanhood visited me. And then quickly became anxious when that miracle was a little different that it normaly is. (I'll spare the details just this once so thank me.) I just wrote it off as being due to the pill change but a very small part of me was still worried I was preggo. (A small part of me worries everyday I'm not on my period!) Since I had a doctors appointment today the perfect opportunity to ease my worries was presented.

So I went to my doctor's appointment today already really nervous. I knew I was going to meet Ms. Pap Smear and I was terrified. And of course my female doctor was a man (I chose my doctor by proximity to my home so I could walk... beggars can't be choosers of gender). I filled out their paper work and tried my best to be brutally honest. Let me tell you I do not enjoy sharing the details of that aspect of my life with a man. Yeah sure sometimes I tell brett about it to torture him but a perfect stranger... But I put on my brave socks and told him. I was oh so taken for surprise when he said 'Oh yeah that can be a sign of pregnancy' GASP! GAH! Heart acceleration.. Small part of me thinking well can I drop out of school now??? So he had me pee in a cup to make sure. Although I really needed to pee I was so nervous I almost had to turn the sink on. As I went back to the room to change into the oh so fashionable gown my heart was racing and my palms got a little sweaty. Once I had changed I sat there looking at the poster on the wall of the stages of pregnancy. Thinking.... could that be growing in me! Once the doctor and the nurse walked in I was told my test was negative. Phew! No baby in me. For about 3 minutes though I could have been preggo! But no, my anxiety was relieved... that is until I saw the tool for the pap smear.... my legs are a bit sore from clamping them together. But it was actually quite painless. Although when he asked if I'd like to do it again I told him I'd wait a year.

So the doctor gave me some samples of prenatal vitamins. I don't know, maybe he thought I was planning on pregnancy soon (no) but he said they were still good as just a multi vitamin. And I'm all up for that. But when I called the pharmacy to make sure my new birth control prescription was in they had also filled a prescription for the vitamins. I wouldn't have gotten then but they were only $4! and I happened to have a coupon for $20 in grocercies for every new prescription. So I made $16 off those pills. And since I switched to the generic brand of birth control which was $5 instead of $25 I made another $15 off of that. Gosh I love making money! ( And that isn't even counting the $15 I made off of transfering Brett's prescription last week.)

SOOOOOOO!!! Just so you all know... No I'm not pregnant and I've now taken my first preg test ever... I'm so glad I'm not a cow cuz I'd be pretty sore right now... I'm also 31 bucks richer thanks to smiths.