8 Doctors and $1500 Later...

It's over!!! Goodnight everyone.

Just kidding.

The day started for us waking up at what we thought was 8am. We looked at the clock and to our surprise, it was 12:30pm. Oh crap! That gave us two hours to get showered, go get something to eat and be back in time to go get our physical.

So after showering, we took a 15 minute walk to McDonald's and had lunch. (Healthy huh?) Our driver picked us up at 2:30 for the 30 minute drive to the American hospital in which we quizzed her the whole way about what to expect.

We arrived and were pleasantly surprised by the facilities. Very clean and very American.

We filled out some paperwork and one of the assistants comes over to us and asks us for the bloodwork we brought along. She's looking at it and everything is going fine until she says, "What about Hepatitis C?" As we scramble through our paperwork, we realize we weren't informed we had to be tested for this, so guess what? Yup, they had to draw blood.

Mine hurt a little when she stuck the needle in, but Brandy's hurt more because when the nurse was removing the needle from her arm, she nicked something on the inside of her arm causing her to wince forward and scream out. Not cool.

From there it was the ole "Pee into the cup" trick so they could drug test us. Good thing we didn't have those poppyseed muffins for breakfast. And then it was onto the doctors. Here is a brief explanation of the 3 1/2 hours we went through.

We met with an Oncologist, Narcologist, Pulmanologist, Neurologist, General Practioner, Infectionist, Dermatologist and finally a Psychiatrist.

Phew!

Because they drew blood to test for the Hep-C, we won't have all our paperwork back until tomorrow at noon but everything went fine and we're past that hurdle. We got back to our apartment around 7:00 and walked over the Arbat to have some Sbarro's. (Yup they have that here too.)

Tomorrow we have basically all day to walk around and chill out. We're thinking we'll probably walk over to Red Square and do the touristy thing.

Our driver is picking us up at 7 pm to take us to the CHI office to store some of our stuff we don't need for Kemerovo and then take us to the airport. Our flight leaves at 10:05pm and then we'll be in the region Wednesday morning.

Funny Story from the Day

We're walking out of our apartment this morning and there's a worker doing something with the wiring above our apartment.

If you can imagine this, the guy slid to the side so I could lock the door. But his arm remained up in the air, holding whatever he was working on. His armpit was at nose level and if you remember the whole, Russians don't wear deodorant thing? Let's just say I couldn't lock the door fast enough while my eyes were completely watering over.

Here some pictures from our stay so far

Starbucks on the first day

The worst job in the world. This woman sits in a a freaking outhouse all day and charges 15 rubles for anyone who wanted to take a leak. Also, apparently mullets or should we say rullets are in here. Notice the guy in yellow sporting his.

Here is the neigbor's door "decorated" in newspaper. Hols, is there some kind of green thing going on with this? Should we all be wrapping our doors (front and garage) like this?

Brandy on Arbat street.

Coby on Arbat Steet.

Coby in front of the Bizzle

Physical Done!!!!