Post Hospital

Just got back from Hosi after a battery of tests and procedures. First give sample through a posh funnel thingy into the sample jar, you do not get the funnel thingy in the NHS, then affix a tube in the arm and withdraw almost a whole armful of blood and squirt salt water back in. Then nursey pops back with a bottle of Lucosade and says drink that in 5 mins please.  Then back for the rest of the armfull  and salt thingy and drop trousering whilst I inject this horrible stuff that may sting a little into your kidney area. (STING! A LITTLE!) to excite your glands, phew! ooh er missus! Pain and excited glands! also not NHS treatment I suspect.
Then more funnel procedure. Followed by what sounded worrying like a gonadectomy but turned out was just a long injection that may make me go to the loo or make me throw up, niether happened until the next funnel procedure and then no throwing up, both preferable to having gonads removed though I must admit..
This was followed by the last bit of blood being taken salt water re-inserted; the nursey then cheerfully pointed out her strap thingy for putting on ones arm to get the veins up with the smiling vampires and draculas on.  a final funnel procedure and tea and biscuits, or a sandwich if I so wished. Nice tea served in a teapot on a tray with nice biscuits, again not NHS treatment I suspect.
See the Prof again on the 16th and with a bit of luck we may find out what is wrong and where we go from here.