Besides the ecg and eye test I had yesterday, today was a day of test after test. It started with a urine sample at 7am, followed by the wonderful swaps of your mouth (easy), nose (weird) and your buttocks (uncomfortable) to make sure there was no MRSA. Then was a blood test, a full blood chemistry is performed and they take quite a few vials but the nurse is lovely and it doesnt take long. All this time I am fasting, and was told not to shower yet. I am now sitting and waiting and Joe comes to the hospital and Dr F comes in and checks on me… I can shower, all good. Then Anastasia comes and says sorry for keeping you, lets go… so upstairs I have a chest xray for my lungs, a sinus xray, then an ultrasound of my kidneys, gallbladder, stomach, uterus and overies.

I am then allowed to come and eat some breakfast (even tho its 11.30) it was baked egg whites today Yum. Whilst back in the room I said to Joe, she put the dopler in and straight away asked if I has a cesarean, to which he responded ‘don’t you think she would have noticed your scar?’ Well Derr! I guess so hehehe. Next tests are a beathing test, for lung capacity, which I sucked at, and a leg vein ultrasound to check for dvt’s etc. I then had a canualla put in for the MRI contrast and boy did I bleed but was all cleaned up and ok. So off for the longest MRI I think I have ever had and that concluded todays testing.

It got to 5pm and Anastasia gave me permission to go back to the hotel and sleep there to return in the am. This was wonderful, I got to experience the tram and Joe and I had a lovely dinner together in the hotel restaurant with an interesting conversation with the waitress on how to get Joes lamb rack cooked rare… they didn’t understand but we worked something out eventually and went with medium instead. My stroganoff was amazing, Joes lamb was well lets say to overcooked for him hehe.

We then crashed it as we are struggling with the time zone changes. 7.30pm here is 2am Adelaide time so early nights then mean early mornings, hopefully we will adjust soon.