Sometimes I hate being a woman
I got up early, so I could leave work early, and head off to the hospital. I guess the appointment could have been worse - it could have been for yesterday - but not much worse.
I got there right on time, then sat in the waiting room for an hour.
“I’m so sorry,” said the doctor, “But your notes went missing, then we could have seen you half an hour ago but someone else managed to sneak in front of you.”
This doesn’t instill me with a lot of confidence.
Oh, how humiliating.
“Do you have a partner at the moment?”
“No.”
“Oh, so when was the last time you had sexual relations?”
I so wanted to scream “None of your bloody business,” but of course, it was her business.
“A week,” I squeeked. I then found myself going on to justify it. Why, in this day and age should I feel I have to justify myself - I’m not a slag really, honest doctor…….
But, it’s all done now. Lot of pain - actually had me shouting out at one point, which I’ve never done before, lot of mess, but hopefully that’s now all sorted for 5 years.
Amendment: Whoops, just reread the post, and realised I didn’t make it clear quite why I was there….. was having the Merena coil fitted after the last disastrous attempt at my local surgery. So, unpleasant, yes, but not *nasty* nasty!