Archive for May, 2007
the weight rant
Let me say from the outset that I have never been “Thin.” There is no recorded history of it that I can find in my family archives. I remember shopping in the Juniors section way too young, and feeling good about that for some reason, though never actually feeling good about my always just a [...]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, May 26th, 2007 at 8:44 am in don't panic, pregnancy | comments »
about my belly
Thursday, May 10, 2007: 11 Weeks
In my area, there is a famous baseball player whose record-breaking home runs are being tracked with a special flip board on the wall of the stadium. I would like something similar for the number of unwarranted, unannounced, stealth belly pattings I receive.
So far, there was friend N., who — [...]
Posted by calm mama on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 at 7:50 am in don't panic, pregnancy | comments »
my toxoplasmosis infection
It was one week ago today that I finally received the “good news” about my toxoplasmosis infection. It’s an old one. Not acute. While I had fantasized that this famous lab in Palo Alto would be so sophisticated as to glean from my blood sample what year I’d been infected, all I learned from my [...]