Pregnancy test

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Random thoughts that appear at random times can be really scary. Today was eventful, I'm writing this article while making my hair.

I woke up this morning feeling energetic mostly because I slept early yesterday, I was very tired. I slept around 10:30 pm which is early for me cos I sleep later than that normally.

I went to church when for a special program this morning and while we were praying, I saw a pregnant woman enter the church and I remembered the time I took a pregnancy test.

So a few weeks ago, I talked with a nutrition expert, I did some tests and discovered I had some nutritional deficiencies. It wasn't anything serious, it just required taking supplements and eating healthy but she asked me to do some tests at a hospital, and to do those tests at a cheaper rate I needed to be referred by my university's medical center so I had to see the doctor.

This was very frustrating for me but I felt it could have gone worse since there weren't a lot of people as opposed to times I went there during the school session. It was usually so stressful then, even the amount of people on the queue would tire you out.

The first thing that frustrated me was that they couldn't find my medical file. I frequented the centre a lot and that was the 2nd time that was happening. They put me through stress, delayed me, and finally resorted to opening another file for me(this could have been done earlier). My medical records vanished with the misplaced file. I just kept thinking 'why me?'. The people that got there later than I left me there.

I finally got to see the doctor. I explained what was wrong and the need for a possible referral and she felt the need to lecture me on the unimportance of the referral. I wondered what the essence of the lecture was as she could have just said no. I was tired at that point and wanted to leave but she started filling the referral form for me. Guess she saw the need for one after all which made me think 'if you were going to do it, why prolong the process and waste both our times?'

She told me that I needed to do a test immediately at the centre and that she needed the result before I left there even though she already referred me.

I got to the lab and gave the lab attendant, after looking at the test slip, the first thing he asked me was "are you a student?", I affirmed and he looked at me weirdly. The only thing I saw on the slip that I knew was a 'urine test'. He told me to urinate in a tube. He said to come back for the result in an hour.

When I did go back to get my result, the doctor was gone. I had to join the queue for another doctor to attend to me.

When I sat down, the first thing he said was "It's negative, you aren't pregnant"

I was like "what?". I'm not sure if you can understand what was going on in my head.

And he said, "You know she sent you to do a pregnancy test right?"

I said "No" and he said "Well, it is, you can leave now"

I wasn't even surprised it was negative, I would only be surprised if it was positive. The only chance of that happening now was if I was chosen as the next mother of Jesus Christ, the next Mary.

I was talking to my friend at that moment and told her about the whole ordeal, then she asked "let's assume it was positive, what would you have done?"

So many trains of thought ran through my head.

I didn't even want to assume or imagine it, it would not have been the end of the world but then I still didn't want to imagine it. My parents would kill me. Not literally though but still equally terrifying.

Well, I didn't tell my parents because it'll lead to questions that I'll be reluctant to answer. You know how Nigerian parents use every single opportunity to ask questions, they'll start asking questions like "who's your boyfriend?" "When will he come to visit us?"

It can be frustrating looking for ways to evade those questions.

Well, that was it, I wanted to share this experience with my read.cash friends. I laughed while writing this. I hope you enjoyed it.

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December 4, 2021.