Pages

Friday, July 29, 2011

REWIND

WARNING (parents and family) this post is a little vulgar but completely necessary to paint our picture of this process-the funny, awkward, gross, bad news and good news-it will all be here...eventually... 

Have you ever been hanging out with a group of friends and all of a sudden everyone goes hysterical over something…and sadly somehow you missed it?  Sometimes you just need a “rewind button”!  My husband has the most amazing sense of humor and literally keeps me laughing throughout the day—even when—and especially when he’s not around (I say that with the most sincere love and admiration for him).  He gave me and my girlfriends a good laugh last week and after heavy consideration for his humility and a little moral deliberation I decided: we need to “rewind” and share! From the beginning it was clear that our inhibitions and reservations were out the door—so here ya go! 

Last week JCH has an appointment with the urologist to get an exam.  This was HIS first of these fun appointments so he was anxious and slightly grumpy.  I’m strapped for time-off at work, so I stayed behind as this was one of the appointments I can afford to miss.  When he leaves the appointment he calls me.  “How did your appointment go?” I say very reluctantly.   “Well, you’re talking to a man with big balls” he says with confidence.  It’s important to note here, that there is nothing abnormal about the size of my husband’s balls.  The doctor had him at “big balls” (Jerry Maguire reference).  While JCH is smiling inside about his “big balls” the doctor was merely telling him that the size of his balls indicated that there was a good chance that there was viable sperm in there ("in there" aka "his balls").

Either way-THIS IS GOOD NEWS-our second round of good news!  The first round of good news we received after I spent 5 hours with a genetics specialist and another 8 weeks to find out if I was a carrier of Cystic Fibrosis.  If I was a carrier we could still “do this”, it was just going to add a much more complicated and expensive step into the mix. Well, I’m not a carrier of CF and JCH has BIG BALLS!! Happy days!

I couldn't help myself with this picture...thanks Tam ;)

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Where do you think they come from?

A hilarious line from one of my favorite movies- "Knocked Up" when Sadie asks her parents "where do babys come from?".  Her mother simply replies with "where do you think they come from?"....

"Well. I think a stork, he umm, he drops it down and then, and then, a hole goes in your body and there's blood everywhere, coming out of your head and then you push your belly button and then your butt falls off and then you hold your butt and you have to dig and you find the little baby."...

I think Sadie's explanation is better than the understanding I have right now of where our baby will come from.  We know (with 99% certainty) that we cannot naturally conceive.  Each visit to the doctor and phone call from the nurse I'm amused and slightly overwhelmed with the "steps" involved with getting "Knocked Up".  So, here's my blog...from the very beginning of this amusing and slightly overwhelming process-with no doubt--a "special touch" from my husband!