4:43 p.m. - 2006-05-09
Call It Whatever You Want
Some days, I just can't think of anything funny. Sorry to disappoint. I make up for it in other ways -- my boyish good looks, for instance.
Anywho. Just back from a late lunch, where I used my precious free time to sit in the waiting room of a foot surgeon's office reading back issues of In Style (not there long enough to learn Debra Messing's Top Ten Tips, however). I had surgery on both of my feet in the past few years to remove a benign tumor in each called a Morton's Neuroma. Lately, I've been feeling the same pre-surgery pain in my right foot, so decided to hopalong (heh) to the surgeon's office to let him take a whiff, I mean, look. His verdict: "Yep, it's growing back a bit. By the way, are you pregnant?" One day, I'm going to answer that question with a highly offended "Um, NO." But not today. Dr. Foot said if the pain gets worse, come back for an injection of something weird-sounding in my foot. Sounds like fun.
I already hate the maternity stuff I bought last week, so on the way back to my office, decided to pop in somewhere else to buy more tent-like garments that I will despise in a few days. Now, I don't ordinarily recommend this, but I went to Sears, which was right by Dr. Foot's office. It's a store which I loathe to my very core, but we were there last month to buy some patio furniture (which is actually pretty nice), and I remembered passing some maternity crap on the way down to the lawn and patio section. So, against my better judgment, I stopped into The Saddest Place In The World. I wish I had a better story to tell, but it was fairly painless, and I left with two kind-of-cute new tops to wrap around my expanding middle.
I'm hesitant to report this just yet, but I think... THINK... I might have felt Pumpkin this morning. It was very slight, and only when my hand was on my abdomen, but it felt sort of like little gas bubbles -- which, I bet, it was. They say that's what the earliest movements feel like, but I'm pretty sure it was last night's dinner. Stay tuned for more intestinal updates.
