March, I mean Medical Madness!

Ok my fellow bloggers…here are the details you want to know about the 8 medical at the Amercian Medical institute… We left the hotel at 2:35 for our three o’clock appointment. When we got there, we filled out an information sheet with our manes and address (no medical history…go figure) and a payment release form. Then we waited about 30 minutes and a “nurse,’ I think, came out and said,”one of you can come with me.” The other couple with us went first…They were gone about 5 minutes and then we were called back a short time later. And so began our theoretical medical.

1. Neurologist: we were with the neurologist for about 5 minutes. He asked Adam if he had ever had blunt force trauma to the head…I think because he looks Russin:0) He also asked him he suffers from epilepsy???? He did not ask me any questions. He tested our reflexes did what equated to a minor DUI exam…IE close you eyes and touch your fingers to your nose with each hand. He also asked us to squeeze his hands while keeping our eyes closed. That completes this portion of the exam.

2. Psychologist: Asked about 10 questions using a translator…including the psychological back ground of our families, employment, why we are adopting, about our kids and how they will react to the adopted child and how the adopted child will fit into our family in terms of her age. She smiled, wished us well and sent us on our way.

3. Not sure of this one’s title:0) Asked us about habitual medications and allergies to medications any surgeries and took our blood pressure. All of the couples that were there with us had higher than normal blood pressures but this did not seem to concern the doctor; I can only presume she assumed it was nerves.

4. Oncologist: Do you smoke? Any history of cancer? Any malignancies?

5. Narcologist: (seriously, that’s what he was called) This was interesting because during the questioning, he spoke to us using a translator but during the physical exam, he spoke to us in almost perfect English??? Do you have alcohol? How often? How do you feel afterward? Are you ever sick from alcohol? Same questions for drugs…specifically any sleep medications, narcotics or anti-depressants. Did the touch fingers to nose thing again…had us roll up our sleeves so he could see our arms...I assume he was looking for track marks.

6. TB Specialist: Showed our radiology report and Tb test results. She asked about how often we get colds and if we had ever had pneumonia. Also if we had ever been exposed to TB.

7. Infectionist: Examined the blood results for a little while…most comprehensive as far as looking at our “medicals.” Asked us about our latest inoculation which was tetanus for both of us.
We did not see an 8th doctor but we left with 8 stamps on our cards????

At no time did they collect our “medicals” and they never asked to see our doctors license…I am not sure they even looked at the notary stamp. It was very simple…took us three hours between being taken in and out of 3 different rooms…seems to be very much a formality that they take very seriously.

When we all got back to the hotel tonight, we went to diner with the Arditos. Swingles, and the Harris’. We walked about 15 minutes to the left right outside of the Marriot and there was a pretty nice Italian restaurant…good food and decent prices…and now to bed! We will blog again most like after court.

Short version: Had medicals, no big deal, ate good Italian dinner leave for Kras tomorrow night will blog again after court on Tuesday.