Olivia's Apartment
Olivia awoke with a start when her cell phone started ringing beside her shoulder.
"Benson," Olivia said groggily.
"Hello Miss Benson, this is Lana Hawkins, Dr. Campbell's secretary. I'm calling to remind you that you have an appointment with her this afternoon, in about an hour. Mr. Stabler asked me to call and remind you," the secretary told her.
Olivia rolled her eyes. "Thanks very much, I'll see you soon," Olivia said as she hung up.
Olivia loved Elliot, but sometimes she felt like her was too over-protective of her. Especially when it came to her condition. Olivia pulled herself out of the bed, and threw on some clean clothes, not bothering to put any make-up on.
Since it was raining, She decided to drive instead of taking a taxi, and got her car out of the parking lot under her building. She hummed to herself as she made the short drive over to the doctor's office. As soon as she got into the waiting room, her name was called, and she made her way into the exam room.
Dr. Andy Campbell walked into the room and greeted Olivia with a smile and a hug. The two had become friends, after Andy performed surgery on Olivia, helped pull Olivia out of the coma, and had seen her at least once a week for the past two months.
"I heard the medicine wasn't treating you too well," Andy said sympathetically to Olivia.
Olivia laughed lightly. "That's an understatement. It gave me the worst migraine, which kept me up most of the night. And the nausea…was pretty bad," Olivia said truthfully.
Andy smiled sympathetically at Olivia and sat down on her stool. "Okay, well I'm going to do and internal exam to see if the medication had any adverse affect on your body, physically I mean. So if you'll take off your pants and lay up on the exam chair, I'll try to get this over with as soon as possible," Andy told Olivia while she pulled on her gloves and got out some tools.
Olivia put her pants on the chair and sat on the exam chair while she waited for Andy to begin. She lay her head back and closed her eyes. "Well it's not like I'm not used to this by now," Olivia said sarcastically.
Andy chuckled as she performed the exam. She frowned a little bit before finishing up and pulling her gloves off. "I noticed that your cervix was a little soft, so I want to do an ultrasound just to make sure there aren't any growths or anything okay?" Andy told her, setting up the ultrasound machine.
Olivia nodded, put her pants back on, and pulled her shirt up above her stomach. "I know you haven't had one of these for a while, but it won't hurt a bit. The gel might be a bit cold, but nothing more," Andy assured her as she put the wand on Olivia's stomach.
Olivia flinched a bit. "Yeah…you could say that it's a bit cold," Olivia said shivering a bit.
"Sorry about that. It'll warm up in a second…" Andy said, trailing off as she kept on moving her wand over one specific spot on Olivia's stomach. "Hmm…" Andy said to herself before putting the wand up.
"What is it?" Olivia asked, wiping off her stomach and tugging her shirt back down.
Andy smiled. "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about it, but I want to take some blood and send it to the lab just to make sure, okay?"
Olivia nodded and smiled half-heartedly. "Sure…"she said, feeling like a human pincushion. She was getting used to all of the poking and prodding, but she would never get used to her blood being drawn. Needles made her a bit squeamish, so she turned her head as Andy took her blood.
"All done," Andy said, capping the vial of blood. "I'll send this to the lab, and call you with the results later today. For now, let's take you off this medication, and put you on 20mgs of the Tednizone, and 40mgs of the Dionexin. Hopefully they won't make you as nauseous," Andy said as she wrote out a prescription for Olivia.
Olivia thanked her, and left the office. She walked out to her car, and drove to the precinct.
SVU Precinct 1-6"What are you doing here?" Munch asked her over the file he was looking at.
"Yeah, I thought Cragen gave you the day off," Fin added, taking a bite out of his sandwich.
Olivia smiled. "Well I just finished up at my appointment, and I didn't feel like going back home, so I decided I'd stop by and see what was going on," Olivia said shrugging her shoulders.
Elliot walked in and smiled when he saw Olivia. He walked up next to her and gave her a quick hug. "How'd it go today?" He asked sincerely.
Olivia shrugged and walked over to the corner of the room motioning for him to follow her. "I guess it was alright. Andy did an internal exam, but she said my cervix was soft, so she did an ultrasound. There was one spot that worried her, so she did blood work just to make sure everything was okay. She said she'd call me as she got any results. In the mean time, she changed my meds, so hopefully I won't be feeling as sick," Olivia said, smiling weakly.
Elliot looked at her worriedly. "Does she think that there is something wrong?" Elliot asked, looking at Olivia.
Olivia shook her head. "She said that it was probably nothing to worry about, but she just wanted to be sure," Olivia told him reassuringly.
Elliot nodded and smiled. "Okay that's good," he said before Olivia cut him off.
"Hold that thought," she told him before racing off for the bathroom.
Olivia ran into the bathroom and emptied her stomach into the toilet. She moaned and gagged again before standing up and walking to the sink. She cleaned her face off and washed her mouth out with the bottle of mouthwash that was stashed on the counter.
Elliot knocked on the bathroom door. "Liv?" He asked through the door.
"It's alright, you can come in," she told him, looking into the mirror.
Elliot walked in tentatively. "Are you alright Liv?" He asked, genuinely worried about her.
Olivia smiled reassuringly. "Yeah, it's just those meds haven't passed through yet, so they're still affecting me. I'll be fine," she told him as he squeezed her shoulders.
"If you're sure," he said.
Olivia nodded. "I'm fine."
Elliot pulled her in for a hug. "I'm worried about you Livvy," he told her honestly.
"I know," she told him, "but I'm okay. Don't worry," she said as her cell phone rang.
"Benson," she said, smiling at Elliot.
"Hello Olivia, it's Andy Campbell. I've got your blood test results back…"