This morning, I had the urge to kill and here is why. We went to the doctor’s for the regular baby check up.

So we got in and we were to get a CTG scan where they check for contractions and the baby’s heart beat. I can’t tell you how much I was looking forward to this. The Lassie was directed into a room at the back of the practice which holds the lab and operating theater. Normally it’s women only, so the Lassie checked if it was ok for me to go in. The nurse said no! I was not going to get to hear my baby’s heart beat. I was angry and crushed!

From the waiting room though I heard them looking for the heart beat, where the speakers give off a rustling sound, but when it came to the heart beat, all the nurses seemed to start banging and walking around loudly. If I were to treat a printer at my work like they did their equipment, I would have been fired! So again, I was angry and crushed.

We got into the doc’s office and he asked “How is the baby?”. Well, we don’t know, how about you examine the Lassie and find out! Then the Lassie asked about the iron issue.

Now, the last post I had made about the doctor was when I said that we asked about the chest pains. Well, afterwards we found out what it was. The Lassie’s iron count was too low (11.0), meaning she was getting anemic (at 11.2 it’s beginning anemia). This is what caused the chest pains and the doc should have seen that. I was at another doc’s for other reasons and asked him about the 11.0 - he was surprised that the Lassie’s doc did nothing (a friend of hers got iron supplements at a count of 11.8, btw).

I digress, the Lassie asked the doc if it is ok to take the iron or not…he mumbled something that sounded like “yeah, this is not a problem” or “this is not bad” (translation)…He then left it like that. No “yeah, you can take it” or “oh no, you can’t, because of X,Y,Z”! He then said that the Lassie had some bacteria and at that point the nurse came in and scrunched up her face, like she thought we were nice people and that is a bad thing happening to us? So the Lassie gets examined with the ultrasound. He gave us the stats this time without us asking much and he was done.

“Everything is fine, Mrs X”

“What about the bacteria?” the Lassie asks.

He mumbles “It’s normal, nothing to worry about..Bye..” and he was gone.

The Lassie still had more tests waiting (blood taking, etc), so we return to the waiting room out by the lab. I am waiting and then see the nurse pass by that is taking the Lassie’s blood to get another nurse. It’s always difficult to get blood from both of us. So the two nurses start walking back to the lab and the original nurse in front of everyone whispers to her colleague and puts her hand sort of over and around her arm, basically saying the arm is too big…with the silly look on her face, too, I knew she was being offensive and to do that in front of everyone in the waiting room was a complete joke!

So, as they are poking more holes in my wife, I hear a man’s voice come from the lab area…Yeah, the place I was not allowed to go!

I want to burn that place to the ground!

Am I overreacting?