Saturday, 7 January 2012

Vaginal scan (Ultrasound scan)

God didn't give up on us.
A month and a half later, I could take a scan. " Oh, Thank God! "

I got a letter from them.
With the scan, I imagined it in my head that I lay down on a hospital bed and it is shifted into a big scan machine gradually.
" Oh, it is like medical dramas that I've watched before on TV. I wanted to have a scan before I die and I can have it! "
My husband has had a scan in hospital before and he said all I do is lay down on the bed.
However, my imagination and expectancy were getting bigger. I was looking forward to the day.

On that day, I had to go to the fertility center to have a scan. I was called to a doctor's room which looked like a common doctor's room in a medical center.
I talked with the doctor and he said that he'll start to take a scan so I needed to take off all my lower body's clothes and lay down on the bed.
A nurse started to draw the bed side curtain.

" Ha??? Taking a scan here? How? " I thought.

The nurse explained to me that the scan camera goes into my private parts. It was completely different from my imagination.
" I have to take all my lower body's clothes off...... I don't have to wear a medical gown which a patient usually wears? Ha!? Wait a minute!! I didn't trim my pubic hair at all!! Because I thought I can wear that gown and I don't have to show my parts! Oh my God! What should I do?! " I thought about it in a moment, but there's nothing I can do. I can't say " Doctor, I have not trimmed my pubic hair so can I reschedule for this scan? " and I didn't want to wait any more.

I didn't have any choice to do this and I thought that I should show the doctor a human's natural state.
I took all my lower body's clothes off and laid down on the bed and put a sheet on my lower body.
I watched the doctor's expression but he did it with a poker face. He maybe thought " Oh, God." but he is a professional.

I thought that I showed my natural figure already, so I don't have to trim any more, if I do it, it is odd.
" Oh, that would be easy from next time! Yeh!" I thought.

About vaginal scan : http://www.ivf-infertility.com/infertility/investigations/female/ultrasound.php