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Friday, Jan. 11, 2002 - 9:08 p.m. - Friday Again
First off before I forget…
 What was your first job? Well, my first full-time job was when I was 14 and I babysat a baby for an entire summer. That same “baby” is now a sophomore at the university today! Yikes. My first job with a real name plate, was for a good friend of the family at his insurance company. I did a lot of filing that summer. How old were you when you had your first kiss? I was 15. The boy who kissed me was so cute and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why he would be interested in me. We were skiing together (we met at a German Ski Lodge our families belonged to on New Year’s Eve when I was madly running round yelling “Happy New Year”) and he turned to me and said “I’m not sure if I’ll be able to kiss you with your ski goggles on, but I’m going to give a try.” I remember being surprised at how warm and soft his lips were. What was your first car? What happened to it? My brother and I shared my dad’s ’72 VW Bug through high school, but then my parents gave it to my brother to use when he got his first job, so they bought me a VW Golf to use to commute to the UW. A number of years later I bought it from them and drove it for 12 years. I loved that little car. My best friend, I, ended up buying the exact same car (same year, same color) and for a while we had matching twin cars until her’s got totaled. A few year ago I bought my red ’93 Honda Prelude and ended up selling my VW Golf to my friend I’s then boyfriend. We joked that if they got married she would ‘own’ my car. Well, they did. I go to visit my car from time to time. But I must admit it is sad to see the shape it is in. I took such good care of it, and they drive it pretty hard. Oh and the VW Bug? My dad still owns it. He can’t part with it. It was his first new car. What was your first concert? I can’t remember, but I think it was Clint Black. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Tomorrow morning I’ll pick my sweet husband up at the airport and give him a huge welcome home hug and smooch. After that I’m not sure. I think we might call my in-laws and share the big news with them. (This is terrible, but we never called them last week and then Michael was gone and I wanted him to be there when we shared the news, so we still haven’t told them!) I think I should also spend some time writing thank you notes for my Christmas gifts (no I haven’t done this yet and I’m usually so good about it – my bad). In other news, I’m still not feeling pregnant. Still no morning sickness. Even the ultrasound picture can’t quite convince me that there really is a ‘peep’ in there. Perhaps next Friday when we go in for our next ultrasound and we actually see something in the gestational sac I’ll start to believe it. I did get a call today from my RE’s office about my blood test results yesterday. They want me to increase my heparin dosage, so I’m curious as to what my coagulation assay showed. Hopefully nothing bad. I asked if there was anything to worry about, but the nurse said there wasn’t, but that they wanted to be rather aggressive with the heparin therapy with me due to my high results to the APA Antibodies (Antiphospholipid). They said not to worry, but I’ll give you one guess what I’ll do. Worry! I guess my RE also said that he doesn’t think I need to see a Perinatologist, but that I can go to my regular OB/GYN. I’m not sure if we are going to do that or not though. I’m sure my OB/GYN is fine, but I’ve only seen her once and I have no loyalty to her nor have I built up a relationship with her. I think I’m going to do some research. I might give her a try and see if we can talk about my husband and I being so anxious about this pregnancy and the fact that we will feel like we will need a bit of extra hand-holding. If she isn’t willing to comply or understand that, then perhaps we’ll look elsewhere. That was why I was interested in seeing a Perinatologist in the first place. I figured that someone who dealt with high-risk pregnancies and anxious patients might be better for us. I guess we’ll see. I just want to get to the point in this pregnancy when I have to make that kind of decision.
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