I was really starting to get sick of waiting around the blood lab. This was 5 or 10 years back, when I was just a couple years out of high school, getting into the busy schedule of part-time college on top of part-time work. I was busy and stressed, and the last thing I needed was a prolonged urinary tract infection so bad that it made me miss classes *and* work. But, so it goes.
Now it was finally letting up and I was feeling ready to get back into the swing of things. But with all the missed classwork to catch up on, with the summer semester’s final exam season on the horizon, and my boss on my case trying to get my ass back on the work schedule, I was really not in the mood to sit around waiting for an hour to get blood and urine samples taken, for the I-don’t-know-how-many-th time in the past few weeks.