Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Here's part 12. There's at least one more part, maybe more. I just don't want it to get too long, and people lose interest. As long as people want me to continue after this exam, and I can come up with more creative exams I gladly will. A/w I hope you all enjoy! I was woken up by feeling of somebody spreading my legs. It startled me and I jumped. That’s when I realized where I was, and what was going on. “Sorry, babe I was trying not to wake you. I’m just taking the catheter out before I have to go to work. Now that you’re awake, can you spread your legs for me?” I spread my legs, even though I’m still half asleep. I feel a little tugging while he’s getting ready to remove the catheter. “Alright babe, take a deep breath for me.” I take a deep breath and while I’m letting it out I feel the catheter start being pulled from me. I moan and whine for the few seconds it takes to pull it out. It definitely wasn’t the wakeup call I wanted. “Alright babe, all finished. Try to go back to sleep. I’ll call you when I make the appointment for the urologist. Are you sure you’d rather see Dr. Carroll instead of Dr. Graham?” “Yeah, I think so.” “Alright, have a good day darling. I love you.” “I love you too.” As he walked out the door, I fell back asleep. I was woken up again by my phone ringing. “Good morning, babe. I just got off the phone with the urologist office. You have an appointment in two hours. I’m going to finish up here and then I’ll be there to get you in an hour and a half.” “Ok, I’ll be ready.” After we hung up, I got out of bed to get ready. I went into the bathroom to use it and take a shower. I sit on the toilet and try to pee. I brace myself for the burning I figured was coming. Sure enough, as soon as I started peeing it felt like there was fire coming out. I kept trying to make myself go, because I really didn’t want another catheter, but it was no use. All I managed was a couple of dribbles that made me scream and cry. I gave up and went ahead and got in the shower to finish getting ready. An hour and half later, I hear Travis pull up. “Hey, babe, is anything any better this morning?” “I don’t think so.” “Have you tried to pee?” I nodded my head, “All I managed was a little dribble.” “Is it still hurting?” “Yes, and a lot worse than yesterday. The little bit that I did manage made me scream and cry.” “I’m sorry, babe. Hopefully we’ll get you some good medicine that will make the pain go away. Are you ready to go?” “I guess so.” We go out to his truck, and start toward the urologist office. Each mile that brings us closer, the more nervous I get. “Travis?” “Yeah, darling?” “What are they going to do to me?” “I don’t really know babe. They’ll probably examine you and take a complete history. Other than that, I’m not real sure.” “They’ll look down there, won’t they?” “More than likely, but I’ll be right there with you, and if at any point you’re uncomfortable you let me and the doctor know, alright?” “Ok.” He grabs my hand and holds it the whole way to the office. When we get there we walk in and I sign in at the receptionist desk. The receptionist gives me a clipboard to write all my information on. After I fill out all the paper work I take it back to the receptionist. I fidget the whole time I’m waiting for them to call my name. I can’t remember the last time I was this nervous. A few minutes later I hear a deep voice say, “Travis?!? Travis Foster?!? Dude, I have not seen you in forever!” I look up and there’s a handsome doctor, not as good looking as Travis, but still good looking, about Travis’ age. “Derek, what’s up? How’s everything going?” “Pretty good. What are you doing here? I didn’t see your name on my patient list.” “This is my girlfriend Nicole Sawyer. She’s here to see Dr. Carroll.” “Helen Carroll? You actually let her make an appointment with her?” “I tried to get her to go to you, but she’d rather see a female.” I couldn’t stay quiet anymore, “Is she really that bad?” “Well, let me say this sweet heart, if at any time you don’t want her to continue your exam, I’ll gladly take over, alright?” I was seriously thinking about changing my mind, when I heard my name called. Travis and I both stand up. “Well I’ll probably see you again before ya’ll leave. Good luck Nicole, remember what I said.” We follow the nurse to the exam room. We walk in and Travis sits in the chair that’s next to the table. “Before you sit on the table, Nicole, Dr. Carroll needs a urine sample, so I’m going to take you down the hall to the bathroom.” I look at Travis then follow the nurse out. She takes me to the bathroom, and hands me a cup with my name on it and two wipes. “I want you to wipe yourself very good with the wipe. Start peeing in the toilet, and then start peeing in the cup. When you’re finished use the other wipe.” With that, she closed the door and left me to it. Ten minutes later I walk back into the exam room holding the cup. Travis takes one look at me, stands up and wraps me in his arms. “Babe, your face is white, and it looks like you’ve been bawling your eyes out. What’s wrong?” I just show him the cup, that didn’t even have enough urine to cover the bottom of it. I started crying again. “Travis, I really don’t want another catheter, please. I don’t want one.” “Shhh, babe, it’ll be alright. I’ll be here to hold your hand.” He hands me a couple of tissues. “Here babe, clean up. The nurse left a gown for you to put on, and the doctor’s already been by once.” I nod my head, and walk over to the table where the gown is. I undress and put it on. It’s a little weird doing it in front of Travis. Even though he’s seen me naked a hundred times, it’s totally different when someone else is going to be doing the touching. I have a seat on the table to wait for the doctor to come in. A few minutes later the doctor just opens the door and comes in, no knock or anything. She looks like she’s probably in her fifties, and has a ‘don’t take crap’ kind of air about her. She looks at me and asks, with an attitude like I’m messing up her entire day, “Are you Nicole Sawyer?” “Um, yes. That’s me.” “Did you finally give me a urine sample?” I hand her the cup, and she looks at it with a disgusted look on her face. “You were gone all that time, and that’s all that you managed to give me?” “I’m sorry, it just hurt too bad, and I just couldn’t pee any more than that.” “Well that’s not even enough to test, that was just a waste of time.” I guess Travis finally had enough of her attitude. He stepped in, “Listen, there is absolutely no reason for your hatefulness.” “And you are?” “Dr. Travis Foster, her boyfriend.” “Well, Travis, you might be a doctor, but this is my office. It’s my rules. In fact one of my rules is that nobody is allowed back in the room with the patient. I don’t always enforce the rule, and I thought now would be one of those times. I can already see, however, that you’re going to cause problems for me. I think you need to leave.” “I’m not going any damn where!” “Fine, but stay out of my way, and mind your own business, otherwise you’re leaving.” So Travis and Derek was both right about this stupid doctor. I should’ve listened to Travis the first time. I don’t want this horrible woman anywhere near me. I don’t want to just speak up and say something in front of her though. I was too busy thinking about what I should say, that I didn’t notice her take an ear thermometer out of the cabinet. I just see her walk up to me, and move my hair out of the way. She doesn’t tell me anything she’s doing, she just shoves the tip of it in my ear. “Ow.” I try to pull back. “Be still, it’s just a thermometer. There’s no way that that really hurts you.” After she was finally done, I rubbed my ear to get the pain to go away. She looked at my chart again. “I see that since you took so long in the bathroom the nurse didn’t have a chance to get your weight. Go ahead and hop up on the scales.” “But if I get up the gown will fall open.” “Well you should’ve thought of that before you took so long in the bathroom.” I get off the table and try to keep myself covered up. Travis gets up and grabs the back of the gown for me. I get on the scale and she takes my weight, and then I go back and sit on the table.” She then checks my heart and lungs real quick. Then she doesn’t warn me or anything she just starts pounding on my back, well I guess really she’s just tapping on it like Travis did the first exam he gave me, but it was ten times harder. She definitely wasn’t being gentle. “Ow! That hurts, stop.” I yell as I try to move away from her. Travis gets out of his chair and walks over to me, and holds both of my hands. The horrible doctor says, “There’s no way that that hurt that much. Quit being a baby.” She does the same thing to the other side, and I try not to say anything this time, even though it hurts just as bad. Even though I don’t say anything I still wiggle away from the pain, and squeeze his hands. He looks down at me with a sympathetic look in his eye. He whispers to me, “I’m sorry, babe.” As soon as she was done she looks at me with an aggravated look. “I can tell already that I’m going to have problems with you moving around during the exams. I’m not even on the painful parts yet.” Painful parts? I don’t know how much more I can take from this sadistic woman. She’s already hurt me, and that was on the easy parts. I’m fixing to tell Travis when she grabs my shoulders and makes me lay down. Travis walks to my head, and holds my hand again. I can tell that he’s really starting to get pissed. Once again she doesn’t tell me anything that she’s doing, she just lifts up the bottom of my gown to where it’s right under my boobs. She didn’t put a drape or anything else over me before she did that, which means I am completely exposed. I’m too shocked and embarrassed to say anything. That must’ve been it for Travis because he grabbed the gown and pulled it back down. “That’s it. I’ve had it. That was completely uncalled for! Nicole might not speak up and tell you, but I will. Nicole, I know you have to be over all this bullshit, do you want me to go get Dr. Graham to finish your exam, or are you still more concerned with having a female doctor?” “No, I want Dr. Graham. I can’t take it anymore.” Dr. Carroll was furious. “This is my patient, and nobody is going to come in here and take over. Not you or him!” “We’ll just see about that.” Travis gets up to go find Derek. “No, Travis, please don’t leave me. I don’t trust her, please.” “Alright, I don’t blame you,” he looks at the doctor, “We’ll leave if we have to, but you are NOT examining her. She’s getting dressed now, so you need to leave.” “Fine, but he’s going to do the same exact thing that I was doing.” With that she storms out of the room and slams the door. “I’m so sorry I didn’t listen to you Travis.” “No, I’m sorry babe. I had no idea she was that bad. If I knew I would’ve made your appointment with Derek anyway.” “Do you think it’s safe for you to leave me here alone to go get him?” “Yeah, I think so. I don’t think she’ll be back. If she does show up, just absolutely refuse care, ok?” “Ok, just hurry.” “I will babe I promise.” It wasn’t maybe five minutes later when I hear voices outside the door followed by a knock. “Nicole? It’s Dr. Graham. Is it ok if I come in?” “Um, yeah.” Dr. Graham walks in with Travis, and Travis sits back down in his chair. “Nicole, I’m really sorry about Helen. I keep trying to get them to fire her, but it’s not working so far. I know you’ve had a bad experience with her, but if it’s alright with you, I’d like to continue your exam. I promise I’ll try to be gentler than she was, and I will definitely respect you and your wishes, which she obviously didn’t. Do you think you can trust me, Nicole? It’s up to you, if you don’t want me to do the exam I won’t.” “If Travis trusts you, than I trust you. I just want to feel better. My tummy is really starting to hurt and I feel miserable.” “I promise you’ll feel better really soon, ok?” I nod my head. “Ok, Nicole, I’m just going to take a few minutes to look over your chart.” I definitely like him a lot more than Dr. Carroll, already. I just don’t know how I’m going to feel when he looks between my legs. I know Travis will be there, so hopefully it won’t be that bad. “Nicole, was this all you were able to produce for your urine sample?” The way he asked it, he sounded more concerned than anything. I just nod my head again, and wait for the lecture. Instead he just sounded worried when he asked, “When was the last time you completely emptied your bladder?” “Well I guess about 6:00 this morning when Travis took my catheter out.” He looks at Travis, “Did you put in the catheter because she hadn’t been able to empty then either?” “Yeah, she had started getting very mild symptoms of a UTI three days before that, but it wasn’t until yesterday she said that it had started burning. Before I realized how bad the UTI had gotten, it was nine or ten at night, and she hadn’t been able to completely empty her bladder since about noon.” “So, is the reason why you can’t empty because it hurts too bad, or because you just can’t?” “Well, both I guess. It hurts so bad that my body won’t let me, if that makes sense.” “Yes, it makes sense. I’m just trying to make sure that it’s because of the pain that you can’t urinate instead of blockage or inflammation. It could be a mixture of both. We’ll need to look into that.” “I don’t like the sound of that.” That had me really nervous and worried about what he was going to do. Travis just squeezes my hand and says, “It’ll be ok, babe, I promise. I’m right here with you.” “Ok, so it looks like Dr. Carroll got your weight, and temperature. What else did she do already?” “She checked my heart and lungs, and tapped on my back, and then she…” I was too embarrassed to say anymore. Luckily Travis finished for me. “I think she was fixing to check her bladder. She physically made her lay down, and then pulled her gown all the way up without a drape or anything. That’s when I stopped the exam.” Dr. Graham just nods his head in understanding then says to me, “Nicole, I am very sorry for that. I promise you, when I feel your bladder I’ll make sure you’re completely covered up, ok?” “Alright, thank you.” “Unfortunately I’m going to have to repeat most of what she did. I’ll have to listen to your heart and lungs myself, just to make sure there’s no problems. So, that’s what I’m going to go ahead and do now.” Dr. Graham puts the stethoscope in his ears and warns me that it might be a little cold. I took deep breaths when he told me to, and then he moved around to my heart and listened to it. “Alright Nicole, everything sounds fine there. I’m going to tap on a couple of places on your back. I want you to tell me if you feel any pain, ok?” “Dr. Carroll already did that though, and it really hurt when she did it. I don’t want to have to do that again.” Travis gets up, stands in front of me, and takes my hands again. “I know it hurt, babe, but he needs to find out if it was because you’re kidneys are infected too, or because she was being rougher than was necessary. So, let him do the exam, ok, babe.” I look at Dr. Graham. “Nicole, I won’t do it if you don’t want me to, but I promise I will be gentle as possible. It’s important that I find out if the infection has spread to your kidneys, that’ll determine what kind of antibiotic you need to be on.” “Ok, go ahead.” I feel Dr. Graham tap a spot on my back. “Did that hurt?” “No.” “What about here?” “No.” “Here?” “Yeah, a little. It wasn’t real bad but it’s definitely tender.” “Alright, I’m going to repeat it on your left side.” There were a couple of spots on that side that was pretty sore too. “Alright, I think that the infection has moved to your kidneys. Luckily we caught it before it got real bad. I need you to lay down now. I’m going to do an abdominal exam, and feel your bladder, alright?” I lay back, and once again Travis goes to my head and holds my hand. Dr. Graham walks over with a drape and lays it over my hips. He makes sure I’m completely covered and raises the gown to the middle of my ribs. “I’m just going to feel a few places. Let me know if you feel any pain.” He starts pressing around my stomach. There were a couple of parts that was a little tender. “Nicole, I’m sorry but I need to feel your bladder. I’m going to warn you, it’s not going to feel good, but I need to see how distended it is.” I nod my head, and he turns his attention to my bladder. He pulls the drape down just a little more. I take a deep breath and Travis squeezes my hand. As soon as I feel the slightest pressure on my bladder, I jump and moan. “Mmmm, that hurts! I feel like I have to pee and like my bladder is going to explode.” “I know, I’m sorry Nicole, I’m almost finished.” A few seconds later he lets my bladder go, but It’s still uncomfortable. He pulls my gown back down, and stands next to Travis. The look in his eye tells me I’m not going to like what he has to say. “Nicole, your bladder is really full. If we don’t empty it soon, your urine is going to back up into your kidneys, and they’ll shut down.” I know Travis knows what’s going to happen next, so I look from one to the other. “That means a catheter doesn’t it?” They look at each other, and Travis answers. “I’m sorry, babe, it’s the only way to empty your bladder. If he doesn’t do it, you could die.” I couldn’t help myself I start crying. “Please, there has to be another way. They hurt so bad, and I hate them. Please, Dr. Graham?” He looks at me like I’ve completely broken his heart. “Nicole, I know they hurt. This is the only way though. I’m sorry. I can’t do the procedure if you don’t give me permission, but without having it done you’ll die. Besides, I know your tummy hurts from where it’s so full. I promise it’ll make you feel better.” “Babe, please let him do it. I’ll hold your hand the whole time.” I look at both of them, and then nod my head. Dr. Graham goes to the foot of the table and pulls out these big stirrups. I’ve never seen anything like them before. “How do those work?” Travis answers me, “You’re going to rest your actual legs in them, instead of just your feet.” “A lot of my female patients actually prefer them to the regular ones. They say that they wish their gynecologist would use them. Nicole, before you put your legs in them, I’m going to explain everything I’m going to be doing.” “Aren’t you just going to be putting in the catheter?” “I actually need to examine you first. I’m just going to spread you labia apart and look at the outside of your urethra. Have you ever had a swab test done?” “Yes! Travis has done two of them so far, and I hate them too.” “Well, unfortunately I’m going to need to do one as well, I’ll be as easy as I can, but I’m afraid it will hurt a little. Luckily it’ll only last a few seconds.” I couldn’t help but groan at hearing that. “I know, I’m sorry. After that, I’m going to insert a finger inside of your vagina, and see if I can feel your bladder any better. It’ll be uncomfortable from where it’s so full. After that, I’ll put in the catheter and let your bladder empty.” “After you finish draining my bladder, are you finished? Do I get to go home?” He had an apologetic look on his face, and I knew the answer was no. “After your bladder empties, I’m going to do something that’s called a cystoscopy.” I didn’t know what that meant, but from the way Travis squeezed my hand again, and put his hand on my shoulder, I knew it couldn’t mean anything good. “What is that?” “It’s a test where I see into you’re bladder. It’ll help me see just how bad your infection is, and I’ll be able to tell if there’s an obstruction or any inflammation that’s not letting you urinate. That’ll help me decide the best course of action to take to getting you all better.” “How are you going to look into my bladder?” I was pretty sure I knew how he was going to do it, but I needed to ask anyway. “I’ll explain it to you when we get to that point, ok? I don’t want to give you too much information all at once. Are you ready to get started, Nicole?” I take a deep breath, and nod my head. “Alright go ahead and put your legs in the stirrups and scoot down.” Oh god this is it, another man besides Travis is fixing to see down there, and Travis is right next to me watching. I feel my face heat up while I get into position.