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It was a little overdue (ok, 11 months overdue) but I got my work physical done today.

I had it done in Tassie so it was a little bit of a challenge to make the physical match what I used to get done in Hershey. Everything went fine and I am happy to say that I am still awesome at the spirometry test performing at 115%

Naturally come the pee test I always have trouble providing a sample when called upon. I totally forgot about the need to perform until I was walking down to the medical place. I stopped off at a store and bought a 750ml bottle of water and drank that. Upon arrival I drank another 2 cups in the waiting room. After another 4 cups in the secondary waiting room and doctors office, I was ready to attempt. After a few minutes I had enough for the test – woohoo!

Now naturally, after drinking over a litre of water and only providing 50ml for a test, I had a bit of a backlog. A few minutes into the walk home, my bladder informed me that it was time to go again. I was just at the loo dammit.

Anyway, next stop was the blood place. The doctor ordered tests to match the results from the ones I used to get in PA. For some reason the US tests give results for Carbon Dioxide. This threw everyone as no one had seen it. Books were searched and databases queried but no one was sure about how to do it. The nice office ladies ended up ringing the lab and it looks like they will have to figure it out when my half a dozen blood samples arrive.