Medical Exam :/

Saturday June 23rd

Another big day...  First we meet in one of the rooms in our hotel to have Graham's passport picture made, then we are off to the Medical Building for his exam and TB test.  He has to have this to be able to come to the states and everything to be negative!!!

So we arrive and walk in to the Medical Building and wow all the people!! If any of you have ever been to the Health Dept. in the States you know what I'm talking about except multiplied by alot! 
Did I tell you that our guides are incredible? They made appointments for us so we were able to skip the line!! Woot woot!

The Medical Office

One of the medical rooms
 

We had to visit 4 different stations, an ear, nose and throat, a vision and weight/height, a strip down and let the Dr. look over you station and then finally the dreaded TB test station.  When I was a kid the TB test was a little small round thing with small needles they pressed into one of your arms. (I don't remember it ever hurting) Now they do this needle under you skin thing so I was really wondering how this little fella was gonna take it?? 

Exam Rooms and waiting areas
 

We made it through the first couple of stations and we got to the (strip down station) the Dr was looking through his file and of course it states that Graham is special needs with a speech delay.  The Dr. looks at us and asked if he talks, we had to tell him that when we are at our hotel he never shut's up.  He is a little chatter box, we have no idea what he is saying but it sure is fun talking to him!

Then we got to the big TB test room! I gotta say he did alot better than I thought he would.  Kevin was holding him and had to help hold his arm out for the nurse.  When Graham saw the needle he sort of wimpered and cried for about 10 seconds and it was over.  Yeah proud mama and daddy (were really glad we made it out of there with out making a scene).



The last half of the day consists of paperwork for mama while daddy babysits back in our suite.  As tired as we are I don't know which one is worse? One you got to have brains the other you got to have energy.

When I got back to the room, Graham had only been asleep for about 10 minutes but Kevin said he was bouncing off the walls!!!  Living out of a hotel room is hard on a little fella.  We weren't able to go swimming after the TB test so it's hard to find places for a little fella to exert all his energy. 

Luckily they do have a small indoor play room and an out door playground that we can use! It helps when your in a pinch!