Hi everyone,
So I had my medical this morning at the Bentinck mansions. I arrived 10 minutes early for my 9:30am appointment.
The lady at reception asked for my questionnaire, my passport, a passport photo, my vaccination records and a my police certificate. She then made a copy of the police certificate and handed the original back to me. I then had to full out another questionnaire, and was sent to the waiting room, it was really quiet when i went there was no one in the waiting room, i was hoping to bump into some VJ-ers to share our experiences. I didn't have to wait too long in the waiting room, only about 5-10 minutes until I was called in to see a nurse to have a chat about my vaccinations and which ones I required. She told me I needed two jabs, the flu and tetanus jab, which I decided to have done there. So I had the flu jab in my right arm and the tetanus in my left, the nurse said that my left arm would feel sore over the next few days.
After the jabs were done, I got sent straight to see the radiologist to have my chest x-ray.He told me to undress and gave me a blue gown to put on. He also asked if I had something to tie my hair back with as i had in his words "lots of it" lol which had to be out of the way. Luckily he had some spare hair clips, I attempted to clip my hair into a bun, but my hair kept falling back out, so I ended up having to borrow several clips from him just to hold the bun into place. Anyway we eventually got there and the x-ray was over with in a matter of seconds, he didn't say anything about the x-ray just made a joke about me giving his hair clips back. I then got sent to another waiting room and was shortly called in to see the doctor...which to my surprise was a man. From the reviews I read on the forum, most had a lady doctor, so I guess I just assumed I would be having a lady doctor too.
The doctor was really nice, he made me feel at ease. The doctor told me to take a seat and asked where about's in the U.S my fiance was from. I told him my fiance was from North Carolina, we ended up having a nice lil chit chat as he goes there quite often to play golf. I got a bit carried away with asking him questions about the places he visited, had to remind myself i was at a medical lol. After the chit chat, he measured my height and weighed me. Then he asked me to stand on one leg and close my eyes at the same time and to hold that position for a few seconds, then he told me i passed that I passed that tricky test loool. He then got me to sit on the bed and read a line from the eye chart and said i had passed that, then he flashed a light in my eyes. Oh and he did that knee test too, the one when they knock an instrument (not sure what it's called) on your knee cap, my leg went right up when he tapped my knee with the thing, and he said lucky he chose to stand out of the way otherwise I could've kicked me right out the window hahaha. Then for the next part of the medical, he told me to lay down so he can check my heart beat with a stethoscope and he also checked my tummy with the stethoscope and asked if i had breakfast, I told him I only ate a banana, then he replied that he could hear a lot of noise coming from my belly
So the next bit involved him checking "my humps, my humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps" yes the breast examination. After a lot of prodding and poking, he then asked me to pull down my knickers for the peek-a-boo-part. But it was all peek no boo lol. I then had a blood test and that was me done. I went back to the waiting room and got called to pay for the session.
All in all I would say I had a pleasant experience as the doctor was nice and made me feel at ease. I had a 9:30 appointment and was out just after 10. I did plan on going around oxford street straight after but I felt quite weak after having my blood taken and 2 jabs done.