You “Aced” The Test
BIRMINGHAM, DOCTOR/PHYSICIAN, ENGLAND, HOSPITAL, UK | HEALTHY | MARCH 27, 2019
(I have been pretty unwell with a virus for a week or so that has caused my asthma to flare up and has required me to take a short course of steroids. About a day or so after finishing the course, I start getting palpitations whilst at work, so I go to the hospital to see if it is something serious. This conversation happens when the doctor is arranging for me to get a chest x-ray.)
Doctor: “Any chance you could be pregnant?”
Me: “Nope.”
Doctor: “Okay, well, we still need you to do a pregnancy test.”
Me: *wondering why he even asked, then* “Why? There is literally no way I could be pregnant.”
Doctor: “Well, these things can happen!”
Me: “I’m asexual, doc.”
(The doctor frowns, looking a little confused.)
Me: *sigh* “I haven’t ‘been’ with anyone it over seven years. Trust me; there is no way I am pregnant.”
Doctor: “Look. The thing is that we just have to test all women, anyway. It’s kind of a rule.”
Me: “???”
(I had to take the test. Shocker, I was not pregnant.)
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