had a scare last week....

a cyst near my cervix ruptured so I was leaking, but when the leaking started, I'd forgotten I had a cyst, so I thought it was my amniotic fluid leaking. needless to say I was freaking out because if it was amniotic fluid, I would have had to stay in the hospital until edith was born...12 weeks early, and I wasn't ready for that yet.

Myra & Lisa took me to UCSF and after being spare changed in the ER by a guy who was told to stop taking all his pills at once, I was wheeled up to labor & delivery. By that time, I'd stopped leaking and remembered the cyst, so I started to relax. The nurse (who looked like the short-haired lesbian dog trainer from best in show) hooked me up to a machine to monitor the baby's heart beat and watch for contractions (of which I had none). About an hour later, the doctor came in to examine me, an early twenty something resident who didn't know that once you put tools under running water, they aren't sterile anymore. During her second examination of me, she pinched me so hard that I screamed and began crying from the shock of it. after she got another doctor to check me out, she was paged, and left, phew. the other doctor finished checking me out and said everything was in tact.

This was our practice - Sacha holding my hand while I was in a lot of pain. I don't think he liked it, but I couldn't tell at the time. i'm happy my passenger is still along for the ride for a few more months.