@raspberrytorte - I think when they check certain of your hormones they like to do it at a particular point in your cycle, and it tends to work out easier to have a gynecologist run those types of tests. Unless you're talking things like thyroid, then of course, the GP can easily run & interpet those.

My refrigerator is having major problems. And we are having major plumbing work done in the backyard. Part of our sewer main that connects to the city's sewer has completely disingretated or been torn up; at any rate there is not much but a dirt berm running between them. The diggers took all day yesterday, and the plumbers arrived late today. Thank God, I convinced H to work at home today so he doesn't have me supervising the plumbers. The good news about the refrigerator is that H is so sick of it having problems (and problems he can't easily solve unlike my washing machine) that he has said he's done with it, and he ordered a new refrigerator to be delivered next Wed. Thank God! This refrigerator has been a piece of crap! I will be so glad to be rid of it!

Been stressed with the stuff going on. Heading to the library soon with my daughter, going to stop and deposit some smaller checks H gets doing part-time advising in an engineering dept. at a nearby college since they don't direct deposit. Not too much money, only $900 for 3 months but between the plumbing, a new refrigerator, Christmas, my daughter's birthday, a dental crown, 3 cavities filled for my daughter, and getting our new cat taken care of, we have been burning through money.