HighRoller
03-04-2007, 04:51 AM
My wife and I had accepted the fact that we would never have kids because she had the Poly Systic Ovarian thing going on with her woman parts. My Mom passed away in April of last year and we've been in recovery mode since then.
Last week my wife told me she needed to go to Walgreens to get some "woman things". I assumed she meant cotton bullets but she told me it was more along the "EPT" line...While she was in the store I sat and wondered if she was ****ing with me... She wouldn't show me what was in the bag as we drove home.
Later she disappeared for 20 minutes while I played with our new Pug puppy. Then the door to the bedroom creaked open and she came out holding the test stick with a sheepish look on her face.
"Honey, we have a problem"....
She showed me the two pink lines and explained how that meant we were "pregnant"!!
I dismissed it, thinking that EPT was a joke.
I went to work the next day, expecting the 2:30 doctors appointment to confirm that it was a false alarm. 2:30 and 3pm came with no call and I knew it was only a scare. Then my phone vibrated and my wife changed my life.....
"Honey...We're pregnant."
I thought about my Mom and God in Heaven and imagined how they had rendered PCOS irrelevant with a snap of the fingers. As I drove home I realized my Mom had not died in vain. She passed away after being stricken with a rare form of lymphoma. She would have lived if it were any other form of the blood cancer because she was at Stanford. It was a rare form of cancer that brought her to Stanford and ultimately took her life two weeks later.
I don't know if God called my Mom home for the purpose of continuing the family, but I know that this conception is barely short of a miracle. My wife's doctor told her that by the age of 35 she would be basically barren due to the PCOS. She turns 35 on May 18th of this year.
I'm posting this because I want others who believe their chances are slim to know that there is always hope until you give up. We were very near the point of considering adoption when she got pregnant.
How lucky can a guy get? A pug puppy who lives to play fetch with me and a baby on the way in October.......
Last week my wife told me she needed to go to Walgreens to get some "woman things". I assumed she meant cotton bullets but she told me it was more along the "EPT" line...While she was in the store I sat and wondered if she was ****ing with me... She wouldn't show me what was in the bag as we drove home.
Later she disappeared for 20 minutes while I played with our new Pug puppy. Then the door to the bedroom creaked open and she came out holding the test stick with a sheepish look on her face.
"Honey, we have a problem"....
She showed me the two pink lines and explained how that meant we were "pregnant"!!
I dismissed it, thinking that EPT was a joke.
I went to work the next day, expecting the 2:30 doctors appointment to confirm that it was a false alarm. 2:30 and 3pm came with no call and I knew it was only a scare. Then my phone vibrated and my wife changed my life.....
"Honey...We're pregnant."
I thought about my Mom and God in Heaven and imagined how they had rendered PCOS irrelevant with a snap of the fingers. As I drove home I realized my Mom had not died in vain. She passed away after being stricken with a rare form of lymphoma. She would have lived if it were any other form of the blood cancer because she was at Stanford. It was a rare form of cancer that brought her to Stanford and ultimately took her life two weeks later.
I don't know if God called my Mom home for the purpose of continuing the family, but I know that this conception is barely short of a miracle. My wife's doctor told her that by the age of 35 she would be basically barren due to the PCOS. She turns 35 on May 18th of this year.
I'm posting this because I want others who believe their chances are slim to know that there is always hope until you give up. We were very near the point of considering adoption when she got pregnant.
How lucky can a guy get? A pug puppy who lives to play fetch with me and a baby on the way in October.......