I am a caffeine addict. My love has led me to devote many a Twitter, text message and verbal declaration to it. Seriously. I’ve stood on a mountaintop and sworn my unwavering I-would-die-for-you loyalty to Mr. Coffee – and pledged to run away with him if he’d have me. Fortunately, the mountain was a pile [...]
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Does this pregnancy make me look old?
Kids keep you young? At 35 that’s hard for me to believe. This pregnancy makes me feel old. Really, really old. Lately my purse is a portable pharmacy with giant bottles of Tums, Tylenol, various other meds, eye drops, tissues and Shout wipes. Worse yet, my olfactory senses are disintegrating. That or my mental processes [...]
Pregnancy, I wasn’t expecting this … (Part 3 of 3)
Pregnant? It didn’t seem real after all these years of infertility. My primary-care doctor thought it was ectopic and sent me directly over to the gynecologist’s office. Only the office was closed and I was directed to the emergency room. I needed to drive to the hospital. The doctor’s words ‘tubal pregnancy’ echoed in my [...]
Pregnancy, I wasn’t expecting this … (part 2 of 3)
I was pregnant, but I wasn’t going to be able to keep the baby? After 16 years of infertility, this had to be some big cosmic joke. I felt short of breath. This pregnancy couldn’t be tubal like my primary-care doctor thought. It just couldn’t. My emotions flipped from stunned disbelief to panicked overload. I [...]
Pregnancy, I wasn’t expecting this … (Part 1 of 3)
I’m not dying; I’m pregnant. It had been sixteen years since I last tested positive for a baby. It wasn’t the result I expected my primary care doctor to return. I’d gone to see him because I thought my colon might be infected. Yes, my colon. Mind you, I didn’t pick that to worry about [...]
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