biotechnological mameluke: How I found out I was pregnant!

by Elizabeth on April 3, 2013

As you may or may not know, I am a date person. I can remember dates and anniversaries better than I can remember how to spell my name sometimes and TODAY (well yesterday ((April 3)) if you?re reading this because I type these the day prior) is the anniversary of finding out I was pregnant with Noah!

So, this day two years ago started out like any other Sunday. We woke up and I went for my morning run. When I came home I was laying on the ground and I was telling Joe how I was hurting in places like never before (if you have been pregnant you know what I mean) and I hadn?t had a period in a while? I told him it must be becoming irregular again. He suggested after we went to church, we go get a pregnancy test, just in case. I laughed saying we didn?t need to do that because I knew I wasn?t. It just so happened that the night prior to that we were at a wedding and I had agreed to be the designated driver for a group of friends, so all night when I told people I wasn?t drinking, they responded with, ?Oh, are you pregnant?? I would laugh and assure them I wasn?t.

Sitting in church I started getting kind of uncomfortable. While I should have been paying attention, my mind started racing. What if I was pregnant? What would I do? How would things change? Etc etc etc? When we left we headed to lunch with one of our college running friends, Andrew, but I told Joe to stop at the 99 cent store to get a cheap pregnancy test. Since I knew it was going to be negative, I wasn?t about to spend $15 or whatever they cost to tell me something I already knew. We got to the restaurant and sat down at our table. Being the somewhat obsessive person that I am, when my mind gets an idea in it, I can?t let it go. I decided I need to take the test right then at Buffalo Wild Wings because there was no way I could wait another hour until I got home.

As I waited for the results, something weird happened. It?s probably what I got for buying a 99 cent test but it definitely didn?t just have one line, although I wouldn?t say there were two lines either. I was really confused and even more freaked out. I ran out of Buffalo Wild Wings and I didn?t stop running for a few minutes until I was in the ?family planning? isle at HEB a few stores away. If I knocked you over on the way that day I apologize. I got another semi cheap test and ran to the checkout. I grabbed a cadbury Easter egg from the checkout line because I was kind of embarrassed to be buying a pregnancy test. Somehow a piece of candy and a pregnancy test is a lot less embarrassing?

I ran back to Buffalo Wild Wings, waved at Joe and our friend (who knows what they were thinking) and took the second test. Two lines appeared. I still didn?t really believe it so I put it in my pocket and went out to the table. I slid it to Joe double-oh-seven style and he gave me a really confused look and slid it back. I looked at it and the second line had vanished!! I knew I wasn?t pregnant! Or maybe I still was. I got up and ran back to HEB straight to that familiar isle and bought the most expense test. This one actually said ?pregnant? or ?not pregnant? because I was done with that double line vanishing stuff! There were two in this box too, just in case! I went to the same checker (he was open!) and didn?t bother to grab anything else this time. He gave me the strangest look when he checked me out and I was past caring. I just sprinted to the HEB bathroom and took it there I was so desperate. Before my eyes appeared the single word, ?pregnant.? After hyperventilating a bit I walked (I was really tired from so much sprinting haha) back to buffalo wild wings and showed Joe. He had already told our friend why I was acting so weird so Joe gave me a hug and Andrew congratulated us both and asked us to name it Andrew Jr. if it was a boy You pretty much know the rest of the story?

Oh, but I did take that second test the next day just to make sure the first three weren?t wrong. Surprise ending: They weren?t And I couldn?t be happier.