Today was fun. I walked into town with another German volunteer and we did a bit of shopping and I also needed to get a pregnancy blood and urine test done. So we asked around some shops to see if there was a Lab nearby and got given some ok directions in some very broken English. Amazingly enough we found it, although it did not really look like a lab. There were heaps of people cued up and I thought I would just see if I had the right place and sure enough I did and the line was for another scan or something so I got to go straight in. I decided I wanted to see the needle come out of a sterile pack as it was a bit of a grubby place. In no time at all the blood test was done and done very well I might add. The needle got recapped (a big no no in NZ) and then thrown into an open box.
I was then given a tiny tiny little glass pot. Now when I say tiny I mean tiny. Smaller than a film canister. Lets say about 2cm high with a 1cm opening at the top. So I venture into the loo to find there is no light so only limited visibility and think to myself. How am I going to do this? It was a squat loo and to be perfectly frank it was hard to see the stream to catch it and hard to catch it in that wee pot without getting it all over your hand. So next thing after wee is collected, I am thinking that I can't take this little pot that is all wet and give it to them, so I wash it under some water being careful not to get water inside it and then dry it on the inside of my top. I then take it back to the lab where I get to place it next to all the other little wet pots, but mine is beautiful and dry. They must think I am some amazing woman to collect that specimen so cleanly :)
I then see a lab guy holding up another little pot to see if it is clean before handing it to someone else who will also bring it back soon and add it to the little waiting cue of urine samples.
1/2 and hour later though I had my results and all was good. Quite a new experience.
I was then given a tiny tiny little glass pot. Now when I say tiny I mean tiny. Smaller than a film canister. Lets say about 2cm high with a 1cm opening at the top. So I venture into the loo to find there is no light so only limited visibility and think to myself. How am I going to do this? It was a squat loo and to be perfectly frank it was hard to see the stream to catch it and hard to catch it in that wee pot without getting it all over your hand. So next thing after wee is collected, I am thinking that I can't take this little pot that is all wet and give it to them, so I wash it under some water being careful not to get water inside it and then dry it on the inside of my top. I then take it back to the lab where I get to place it next to all the other little wet pots, but mine is beautiful and dry. They must think I am some amazing woman to collect that specimen so cleanly :)
I then see a lab guy holding up another little pot to see if it is clean before handing it to someone else who will also bring it back soon and add it to the little waiting cue of urine samples.
1/2 and hour later though I had my results and all was good. Quite a new experience.
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