Medical Check up

Sorry for not posting anything for such a long time. The main reason is because I have been very busy. As I said in previous blogs, the 3rd year is one of the most important year in a medical student's life as it is here, where we learn all the basics for our clinical life later on.
Life have never been more hectic than the last few days. Classes in random hospitals out of town, lectures in the university, heavy subjects everyday, long duration of classes, all of these added up, they really make life in my 3rd year a living hell.
Actually it is not too bad. I am starting to like the stuff i am studying as we are begining to learn more about the pathological conditions and medical procedures.
Since we were going to be in contact with patients more often, the university decided to ask us to go for a check up in order to examine our health condition.
Let me tell you now about the shocking and traumatic experience.
First, we were told to collect our stool samples for examination. At the begining, I was laughing at my friends who had collected their samples before me as they were disgusted about it. I wanted to take a picture of the samples of me and my housemates but little did I know that after I collected mine, I was so disgusted by the thought of it that I almost vomit when I was holding my sample(which was in a container).
Next, for the examination itself, we had to give our blood sample, get checked in our ear, nose and mouth. Then we headed to a general therapist who asked some general questions about our health and measured our blood pressure. I was so shocked when she told me my Bp was 140/70 !!! Later, when I asked my friend to measure mine, she told me that my Bp is indeed high. I was so shocked by this news as I do not eat very salty food(except if you count taking a lot of sauce from dishes) and I am quite normal in weight and I do exercises weekly. Hence, now I am trying to eat more healthy food and try to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I hope I would get my Bp back to normal.
Now about the climax of the examination, we had to do both rectal swabs and penile swabs ! All of us were so traumatized at this news. After the examination, all the guys were complaining about the pain that each of us were feeling. I was even walking with my legs wide open in order to decrease the pain(my friends were laughing at me for that). Talk about pain in the ass? Try pain in the urethra.