Medical Clearance...So Close!!!

I'm pretty sure they time their mailing on purpose. Every single form, letter, or email I get from the Peace Corps always arrives late Friday, so I can't do anything about it until Monday. But I guess I should explain my excited title. As I've previously mentioned, the medical clearance stage usually takes 4-6 weeks. Which would place the 4 week mark on 6/1. Then I get this letter today (meaning 6/2, not when I post this) from one of the Peace Corps nurses that does the medical clearance. Turns out she wants two more bits of information. Remember the mix up with the tests I mentioned back in March? Turns out that the lab people did not perform the right test. They did do a Hep B test, but not the right one as they were instructed to do by my doctor (I saw it written plain as day on the doctor's copy). So I rushed over to the doctors office before they closed and explained the situation. So now I have a new form to take to the lab place on Saturday where they'll draw blood to do the correct test. I will be asking them multiple times if they are going to perform the right test with my blood - just so that they remember me and thus remember to do the right test this time. So I should get the results from my doctor on Monday and can fax them in the very same day.

The second item they wanted info on was the scar on my finger that I got way back when I was ten. If my doctor wasn't so thurough, this wouldn't have mattered. It doesn't even matter anyway, but I still have to write a personal statement explaing how I got it, when I got it, and any treatment I received for it. The basic answer: August 1994...bow saw stuck in branch...yanking free but with finger in way...bleeding...bleeding...hospital...stitches...brace. Real simple and will be faxed with my lab results on Monday. I will also be calling them after I send both forms to make sure they get them in their hands. So hopefully I'll get clearance real soon. Then my invitation!

But I can't help but wonder if there hadn't have been an issue with the Hep B test, would they still have held up my clearance for my scar? I'm afraid the answer would have been yes...