Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Dreaded Medical Exam

So, I had my first day of training yesterday, which went very well. Nothing too exciting to report, except that all of us trainees get along really well. However, afterwards, we had to get our medical exam. It was in this extremely extremely fancy building. Everything was spotless and beautiful in the clinic and they were extremely efficient. They basically just shuffled us around with various clipboards to the different tests. First, we had to do blood pressure, but the machine was way out of wack and everyone had super high blood pressure (including me...it said 146/90 but then they redid it and it was fine). Most of us had our blood pressure taken at least twice, if not three or four times. We then had other tests like vision, hearing, height, weight, blood, urine, dental (where they basically told everyone to brush their teeth better. If you are female, I will explain the horrifying horribleness of the EKG in private email. Seriously, the EKG was horrifying.

After it, a big group of us went to eat lunch and just ate and talked for about 3 hours. Everyone's really nice and we had a good time. The meal was interesting. they cooked the meat on the table and then we ate it with lettuce and whatever else you wanted to put on it. I took pictures so you can understand, which I'll post in the next blog.

Also, today I saw the first squatting toilet, which I immediately avoided. Luckily, we have normal ones in the hotel, except that the seats are heated.

5 comments:

  1. Glad you made it safe and sound! It all looks so lovely. Why was the EKG horrifying!? : ) Just teasing I think I know why! : ) How has the weather been? I hope everything continues to go as smoothly as it has thus far. I will keep praying that it does!

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  2. Love those heated seats...some even play music...and do all other sorts of things...you will soon see...hahah.. Glad it is working out for you. Heard about the Ekg...I will have to tell Tralynda tomorrow...not the normal thing you would expect. Miss you and take care.

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  3. hahaha now everyone knows about the EKG....

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  4. how are you? Have not heard from you in a bit and was wondering how the exams are going for you. Know your busy. Allison is coming home today and she plans on driving the girls to ice skating if we can ever get the van back. It is raining and raining here! Foggy and Gray. We miss you.

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  5. ELICE! I passed training and am all moved in now! I'll get my internet on Tuesday, but I have a very spotty connection right now that I will use until then so we can email! everything is going really well! I am enjoying myself (minus the losing the voice hehe).

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