Bloody NHS

Today I have spent 5 hours of my life at the hospital and to be quite honest it was boring. I arrived at the hospital just over half an hour before my first appointment and after faffing around with change for parking (£6!! Outrageous) I got to the department for the MRI scans 27 minutes early. According to the letter I only had to be there 15 minutes early so I thought all was good. I filled in the safety form etc and the nurse or whoever she was came across with a gown for me and went through the questions and procedure with me. Having done this twice before it didn't take long and I was changed and ready to go by ten to eleven for an eleven o'clock appointment.

I waited in the little cubical with the curtain open just as I was told for a little while, and just presumed they were a bit behind when it got to 11:15 and no one had come to me. Time ticked on and at 11:40 someone came out to say 'Hi, we've got a small delay, which I guess you've noticed, we'll be with you shortly' OH REALLY? Well I hadn't gathered that already... Also if that's a short delay god knows what a long one is! 2 days maybe?

I was eventually seen at 12 and after nearly falling asleep in the scanner and being told off by the man for fidgeting (I was losing the circulation to my arm, but never mind) I got out at 12:45. Bugger, I was meant to stop eating 15 mins ago according to the letter for my 2nd appointment of the day and I was running on the one Malted Milk I'd had as some kind of breakfast. Deciding to throw caution to the wind I scoffed a pasty just before 1 and went to my next appointment's department. The rest of the day was a lot smoother an I spent my time waiting wisely like a good Uni student and did over an hour's revision in the waiting room.

The second appointment was an exercise test, which I was dreading. I'm not one for doing a lot if sport apart from riding and even that I haven't done for weeks. Last time I did this test I was 8 and had to do the test on the treadmill. I HATE running... Today was my lucky day, I did the test on the bike instead which is something I fair a lot better with and managed to complete the full test time (just).

I spent the evening at the Boyf's house (the dog liked me this time) and the allocated meal and pudding of pizza and garlic bread and cheesecake undid all my hard work this afternoon. We did play Wii Sports and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics though, does that count?!

Tomorrow looks to be a lot more relaxed, but I may well go on the Wii Fit and rowing machine though.

Ta-tah for now!