Pap Smear for All You Women Out There

I have heard of the pap smear procedure before, but had never undergone such. So when i went to the clinic for infertility consultation, the OB conducted the procedure along with the consultation.


I was told to lie down on the bed, of course, without anything from the waist down, with knees bent and apart. The doctor then inserted a speculum which looks like a metal beak of a duck and she starts to collect some cell samples from inside the cervix.

a speculum

The speculum may look weird, but the process is painless. The speculum just felt a little cold during the insertion. So I was just lying there while the doctor prompt me to watch on a monitor on the bedside while she was telling me that it was the cervix.


It looked foreign to me anyway.


Everything was over in less than five minutes or so. I felt no cramping, no bleeding, no pain.


I was thinking how so many women are afraid to do the pap smear test when this fast and painless procedure can help a lot in the early detection of cancer cells and can help you combat cervical cancer even before it starts to ruin your life.


I would say, if you have been sexually active, go ahead. Take that pap smear now.




- xoxo-

First Visit to the OB-Gyne

After four years of putting off the OB appointment, and after two OB appointments that I have foregone, I finally set a date this time to see the OB-Gyne.


It was quite a long wait but i did not mind. somehow, if you are determined to know why for all these years pregnancy eludes you, you will always wait. there's no place for impatience at this time.


I was finally serviced at around 2 pm, even if arrived at the clinic at 8:00am. The OB did a breast exam as well as pap smear test on me. She charted my fertile period, ask a few questions about the regularity of my menstruation and jot down a few vitamins for me and Hubby to maintain.


She made me a request to do a blood test as well as ultrasound.
She also made a request for hubby to undergo sperm count. We were thinking of doing the sperm count today but i remembered the doc said that the analysis should be done three days after the last sexual contact. You know what i mean.

After a few minutes, i am done. 10 minutes of consultation and i shed 1,700 pesos for the laboratory and the 500-peso consultation fee. that was huge for a first-timer.

I'd probably be back on Monday for the lab test and hopefully get positive results on my chances to get pregnant.

Praying there's good news after all these tests.
- XOXO-

My Thoughts Of Having Kids

I am a woman. I married the man I love, and who loves me back a hundred folds. So they say that when two people fall in love with each other at the right time and place, nature tells us they will build a family soon.


Falling in love.
Weddings.
Kids.
Family.
Happy ever after.


At least, that is how people say the sequence should be.


We are a happy couple, at least I could say it now. Four years and counting after that celebration of wedding cakes and beautiful balloons, we are yet to explore the world of having kids.


Time and again, I would hear the question of when the little one would come - and time and time again, officemates, classmates and friends even those younger than I am are becoming mothers. Some have joys in their hearts. Some aren't as glad as you would normally expect them to be.


But that does not made me less happier. I am happy.


I find myself blessed with such a life. I find myself blessed with such a man in my life. Some may think I am incomplete, but I don't. Some say it can be unhappy, but I don't see and feel it the way they do.


How many women my age are still looking for the right man in their lives?
How many women my age are having kids without a father?
How many women my age are breaking their backs to find something to feed their children?
How many women my age are not yet settled with their lives because they are still sending siblings to school?


How many wives are restless when they are left to tend to their children alone when their husbands are out for a drinking spree with their friends?
How many wives are forced to stay at home, take care of their children and forget about their promising careers?
How many wives are helpless to find their husbands having an affair with others?
And how many wives are abused?


I don't find it happier to be in their place. Nobody has a perfect life. We do have our share of problems and "don't-haves". One man's happiness is not another's happiness as well.
I say, happiness comes from within you, and not from what you have or how little or how much you have on this earth.


Everything is temporary. You can never have something and someone and own it forever.
Even the people around you will not be there for you forever. Time and time again, you will lose them, or they will lose you - whichever comes earlier.


Our laundry woman once told me a child can take care of you when you get old. I say, you can't even tell if your child will die earlier than you do.


Indeed, it is in appreciating what you have and being contented and happy with what you have, how little it may be, that brings true happiness in life.


Even if you want everything, there is always a reason and a purpose why you can't have something... and that is to make you the person that you are meant to be.

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-XOXO-