For people who know me, I have freakishly weird sinus issues. 3 surgeries, 2 different doctors, countless prescriptions, acupuncture...you name it. So, on Saturday the 2nd I began feeling the twinges of a sinus infection...in my teeth. They were numbing a little and fuzzy but usually if I can get ahead of it with meds I am ok. We had dinner at mom and dads on Saturday night and the only thing I remember thinking was odd was the fact that I had to get up from the dinner table and go lay down. I figured it was because I had too much to drink and eat!!!! By the next day the pain was getting worse and I was getting relief from NOTHING.
On Monday the 4th I went and worked at my new school and my sister insisted I check in at CareNow and go get some antibiotics. I got back in a room and the nurse came in and asked me what was going on and I casually mentioned to her that my husband and I were trying to get pregnant but that I had taken a pregnancy test the previous Friday and it was negative but that I still hadn't started. She insisted they test me before the doctor prescribed any medications so I peed in the cup and I was back to the table waiting to see the doc.
The doctor came in and sat down and flipped through some papers and said "what's going on" so I launched into my explanation and told him I was 99% sure it was a sinus infection. He responded with, "well, you're pregnant" and just continued to speak about things that I cannot recall. I stopped him and I said "WHAT...I'M PREGNANT...ARE YOU SURE" and he laughed and said that is what the results said in the chart. I began crying HYSTERICALLY, holding my belly and rocking back and forth in my chair. He looked at me with these huge eyes and I know he couldn't decide whether he had just made me the happiest woman on earth or ruined my life with this news. I somehow managed to eek out the words "I'm so happy" so he could understand the reasoning for my hysterics. The exam continued, I think he checked my neck and looked in my throat and nose but I am not 100% sure. He began talking to me about specific antibiotics that were safe for "expectant mothers" and I remember thinking to myself "who is expecting"!!! He left the room and I remember him telling me someone would be back to take me to check out. A few minutes later he returned with this little stick thing in a Ziploc baggy and said, "I dug this out of the trash...its your results stick...since you were so happy" and the waterworks just started again. I looked down at it and saw the two lines....the two lines I had NEVER seen before because I have taken countless tests with just the one line, the blaring negative.
I have never been so happy to see 2 little lines!!!!
I paid the front desk all the while clutching my little baggy with my stick. All I could think about was Mason. How would I tell him? He had already held me and let me cry the Friday prior when I took my negative test and despite countless pins to my "How to tell people you are pregnant" pinboard on Pinterest, in this moment, I had NO clue how to tell him! I headed to Wal-Mart to find anything that said "Daddy loves me" or daddy anything really and after two Wal-Mart trips I had a girl onesie and a boy onesie laid neatly in a box. At Wal-Mart #2 I also bought some pregnancy tests and took one in the bathroom (just to be sure) and sure enough, PREGNANT, popped right up! I nestled that test down with the onesies in the box and headed to Masons job. I asked him to meet me at the Shell near his work because I had a surprise for him!
My Wal-Mart finds!!
He pulled up next to me in the Shell station and I had my phone all ready to record. He got in the car and I think he was looking for a sonic drink since that's the surprise I usually bring him. I handed him the box and his reaction was one I will not soon forget. My favorite part is the end when I asked him if he was happy and he said "yea! and scared as shit!"...my feelings exactly!
Mason's Reaction caught on video!!!
So here we go...on our way to becoming PARENTS!
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