Haley’s Blog

…and my BIRTHDAY! A few days ago was my birthday and I was sick. No, wait, I am still sick! My mom had had enough of my little coughs (and what she predicted were fevers) since it’d been almost 3 weeks of it, so we scheduled a doctors appointment. The doctor typed down what I told her that I was feeling. She said that I would need a series of tests to be done to confirm what I had.

“What kind of tests?”

I heard ‘bloodwork‘.

“A needle?”

Yes. A needle. ICK. But this wasn’t like the shots I get to prevent horrible sicknesses, it’s the kind so they can see what kind of sickness you have. I was pretty scared about the needle, but trust me, it really wasn’t that bad.

So, one morning I had to take the morning off school so we could go to the hospital to get the bloodwork done. It was horrifying at first and I kept pulling my arm away, until the nurse told me the funniest joke I have EVER HEARD!! I laughed so hard that I stopped trembling and I think I squeezed my Mom’s hand really, really tight, but I don’t remember her saying “ouch!” at all, so I kept squeezing!

Well, the needle went in and the was a long, long clear tube type thing connected to the needle, and I saw red liquid rush up into it fast. I remember thinking, “Oh, that must be my blood… my BLOOD?!?!” There were a few tubes that the blood was filling up into. Finally, the needle was pulled out. I was so relieved, it wasn’t even funny.

Well it wasn’t funny to start with, was it.