I never do things simply. I had pneumonia and was in the hospital being treated for it. I was also two months late with my cycle. The doctor in the E.R. insisted on a pregnancy test but after 11 years of disappointment, I instictively thought "nah I'm not pregnant." I hope to god I didn't do anything wrong by taking some of the meds she prescribed.
Well the following week I felt weird, well maybe not weird but different. So I dug out a pregnancy test, bought gods-know-when from family dollar and peed on it. I looked at it and there was a faint crosshatch line making a cross and a strong other line in the other window and because it was so faint, I figured the age of the test gave me a false-positive.
I called my sister who said I should buy a digital pregnancy test, would have been nice to know it was so expensive but CVS had it on sale. I bought it and a few other things and the pharmacist that I adore said "good luck, your skin looks great who needs skin cream anymore." I blushed and paid for my things.
Next morning, I peed on the stick. It flashed a clock and I brushed my teeth and washed my face and looked down. "Pregnant +" showed in the window. I sat down hard on the closed toilet bowl and burst into tears. I had a follow up Doctor's appointment with Dr. Sferraza to check on the pneumonia progress and all I could think of is all those x-rays, the medicine that I stopped cold turkey and my addiction to diet coke.
I arrived at Dr. Sferraza's with my sister and spoke to Cathy (the RN) and told her my suspicion and she said well here and handed me an EPT Digital test and that is what I already took, I told her. She then screamed with delight cause it is the only test the office uses other than a blood test. I told her I wanted a blood test and she smiled and said ok.
Dr. Sferraza called me in, said "hello Kate's bodyguard" to my sister and reviewed everything. Beat the pneumonia (check), pregnant one vial of blood please (sorry sis about your hand). Call back on Monday about noon to find out.
Longest fricken weekend of my life. Just for good measure I peed on the second EPT test and yup "pregnant +" so we are pretty much knocked up. LOL. Next is the family, my mother said "OMG" for about 20 minutes. My in-laws thought we wanted to tell them about the pneumonia and that we needed to move back in--fake out. My sister is like, I'm going to be an Aunt,OMFG. Sunday we tell the balance of the family who of course erupts in excitement.
Monday finally shows up and I call and ask to talk to Dr. Sferraza, Margie (office manager) said give her a minute and Dr. Sferraza comes on the line and says "hi Kiddo, or should I say Hi Mom." I burst into tears and called my husband at work. He of course screams "I'm going to be a father!!!!" and I heard someone say "congratulations, Larry sit down."
In order I notified the following people:
My folks
My sister
My cousin Suzie (she's 95)
My friend Frank
My friend Tom
and I texted my friend Ken
(then I followed up with an eMail to my Aunt)
Facebook has everyone else and then it went viral.
Not quite sure who Larry contacted but I know we worked down his HUGE Italian family tree. So after years of trying, we're pregnant. Welcome to the ride.
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