Well, that was much easier than previous tests. Instead of jamming the swab into my brain, they just swabbed the inside of my nostrils for 10 seconds on each side. It was super fast and didn’t hurt at all. Still, the drive there and back took ~45 minutes.
I do have to complain about the test site however. They set up a large, drive-thru tent in the parking lot. The issue was that there were confusing signs everywhere. I believe there was another testing site for another insurance company (Optum) in the same parking lot. That site is not operating but they left all the traffic cones and signs in place. Each of the entrances to the parking lot had an Exit Only sign, and the only sign with clear directions was facing away from the street; you can only see it if you turn in to the parking lot while ignoring the exit signs. I got to the parking lot ten minutes early for my 9:30 am appointment and was still five minutes late to the tent.
They also gave me an instruction sheet that contains a section called Self-isolation Instructions. There is one bullet that says:
If you have other medical appointments, schedule them for before your test or for after your scheduled surgical procedure.
Since they scheduled the test so early, I still have three dialysis sessions to attend before my procedure, and there’s no way I can skip them, especially when I’m supposed to guzzle all that fluid beforehand. The other points on the list are not as bad as the directions I received post-COVID test for my cardiac ablation procedure.
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With the bad results from the fructosamine test, now I’m more worried the colonoscopy. Each new test seems to bring more bad news. 😫
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I just realized that my dashcam captured me gettin lost in the parking lot. If I can figure out how to embed videos in WordPress posts, I’ll include it later.
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And that’s a no. I have to upgrade to WordPress Premium to be able to upload my own videos. I can always upload videos to my YouTube account then embed them in my post, but then I would lose the little bit of anonymity that I still have on this blog.
Life with chronic diseases 