Finding out
I started suspecting at the end of last week that we
might have succeeded this time - I didn't feel any major symptoms, maybe a
little tired, maybe a little more gassy, but nothing that wasn't normal. But we
were still on our trip to Death Valley and I was busy all weekend getting back
and getting ready for classes to start up again.
Sunday night, I decided I would buy a test Monday night and test Tuesday morning. Monday night I went to the local Giant after convincing myself it would be ok to go to my usual store and buy groceries as well instead of sneaking off to a drugstore that I don't frequent. All went well, for the most part - got the test, got some groceries, and checked out in the auto-checkout line so no cashier had to see and ask me any questions ;) When I scanned the test, the machine spit out a coupon for a different brand of pregnancy test. Somehow, I knew that was going to happen! I bought the First Response brand, having heard it was pretty sensitive, even though I was late enough that I probably didn't need anything super sensitive. I just didn't want to set myself up for agonizing about the sensitivity of the test. I bought a 2-pack, just in case - well 2-for-the-price-of-1. On the way out of the store, I ran into Irina, who had just been on the Death Valley trip with us, along with her good friend Julia, who is taking my astronomy class this term as a non-matriculating student. I was worried they would see what was in my shopping bag, but I slung it casually behind my legs and chatted with them a bit about the planets we could see - Venus and Jupiter - until we decided it was too cold and they ran into the store and I to my car. I was lucky they didn't see me in the check-out line!
Talked to Gary Monday night and considered taking a test then, but I decided to hold out to test first thing in the morning. Tuesday morning I woke up and had to psych myself up to take the test... the directions had all looked so simple the night before, but I started getting confused about which way to hold it up...anyway... first the control line disappeared... and then another line came up, then the control line came back. Definitely a second line there. I was shaking a little and ran for the digital camera (having had the revelation only recently that the people who had pics of their tests had taken photos with a digital camera rather than putting the test on a scanner). Taking pictures was hard when I was so shaky, but it gave me a chance to breathe before calling Gary.
Gary was expecting a call either way, but I must have sounded happy, because I said guess what, and he said - you're pregnant! Even though we both kind of suspected, it was a pleasant shock to us to find out for sure.
Sunday night, I decided I would buy a test Monday night and test Tuesday morning. Monday night I went to the local Giant after convincing myself it would be ok to go to my usual store and buy groceries as well instead of sneaking off to a drugstore that I don't frequent. All went well, for the most part - got the test, got some groceries, and checked out in the auto-checkout line so no cashier had to see and ask me any questions ;) When I scanned the test, the machine spit out a coupon for a different brand of pregnancy test. Somehow, I knew that was going to happen! I bought the First Response brand, having heard it was pretty sensitive, even though I was late enough that I probably didn't need anything super sensitive. I just didn't want to set myself up for agonizing about the sensitivity of the test. I bought a 2-pack, just in case - well 2-for-the-price-of-1. On the way out of the store, I ran into Irina, who had just been on the Death Valley trip with us, along with her good friend Julia, who is taking my astronomy class this term as a non-matriculating student. I was worried they would see what was in my shopping bag, but I slung it casually behind my legs and chatted with them a bit about the planets we could see - Venus and Jupiter - until we decided it was too cold and they ran into the store and I to my car. I was lucky they didn't see me in the check-out line!
Talked to Gary Monday night and considered taking a test then, but I decided to hold out to test first thing in the morning. Tuesday morning I woke up and had to psych myself up to take the test... the directions had all looked so simple the night before, but I started getting confused about which way to hold it up...anyway... first the control line disappeared... and then another line came up, then the control line came back. Definitely a second line there. I was shaking a little and ran for the digital camera (having had the revelation only recently that the people who had pics of their tests had taken photos with a digital camera rather than putting the test on a scanner). Taking pictures was hard when I was so shaky, but it gave me a chance to breathe before calling Gary.
Gary was expecting a call either way, but I must have sounded happy, because I said guess what, and he said - you're pregnant! Even though we both kind of suspected, it was a pleasant shock to us to find out for sure.
Posted: Wed - March 24, 2004 at 01:40 PM
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