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Friday, October 16, 2009

How to Have a Heart Attack at 36 Weeks

This morning, at 36 weeks, the husband and I had a wee little heart attack. EACH.

Me first, when all my bath-water (you know, the bath-water I have to use because after FIVE freaking weeks of renos, I still can't SHOWER in my own house!) turned BRIGHT RED (not blood red, but diluted red). Him next - first when I was yelling for him to come RIGHT AWAY, and then AGAIN when he saw exactly WHY I was yelling for him.

Surprisingly, for what we both admitted was going on in our MINDS at the time, we were both actually pretty calm on the outside. He just kinda stared in disbelief, asking WTF? I just crawled up onto my knees to get out of the water, and demanded some toilet paper to ASSESS the situation.

While he unrolled almost the ENTIRE roll (boys seem to think assessing the situation needs more than 2 squares), out of the corner of my eye, I caught a red dot on the upper ledge of the tub, and another one, and another one - ones that BY NO MEANS should've gotten up there cuz my cha cha was still LOWER than that ledge. Which meant the red was probably NOT coming from my cha cha. Which meant it could only be coming from one other place...

When the hairdresser tells you not to wash your newly dyed red hair for a couple days, cuz some of the color will COME OUT, he actually MEANS it.

29 comments:

cd0103 said...

OMG-- I just spit my coffee at the screen. Bless your heart.

Emily said...

Oh my god. Scary, but hillarious. When my hair was dyed red, it would take several washes for the water to stop running red.

Photogrl said...

I'm SO glad that it was your hair!

Sheri said...

Ah...the suspense! I'm so glad it was your hair and not something else. Whew!

Kristin said...

I'm sorry chicklet but I am laughing my ass off at you.

Emily said...

Hahahahaha! I did exactly the same thing when I was pregnant. I should have blogged about it then you would have been forewarned!

areyoukiddingme said...

(hee hee hee hee)

Jendeis said...

Thank G-D.

serenity said...

OhmifreakingGAWD.

When will I learn to not be drinking water when I read your posts?

Too funny. Scary. But funny.

xxx

Elana Kahn said...

LMAO Yeah...probably not a good idea. ;-)

Nic said...

OMG you had me scared there for a minute! Lol! Pleased all is well!!

Christina said...

OMG!! You freaked me out too. Another thing not to do is to blow your nose in toliet paper when it's bleeding, put in the toliet, pee and then not flush. DH almost screamed that I had lost my MP because he thought the bloody paper was from my hooha.

stillhopeful said...

Such a funny story!!!!

Love your blog - just stumbled on it and I'm amazed at how similar our stories are...

We also did several rounds of chlomid, then 3 rounds of chlomid IUIs, then 2 IVFs - all BFNs. We took one month off and were about to start the 3rd IVF (already paid the clinic in full), and somehow got pregnant naturally in the month immediately following the 2nd IVF BFN.

I'm now just past 29 weeks and right on track for a new years baby!!

Sounds like your on track for a pre-Thanksgiving baby. Good luck to you!

nishkanu said...

Holy moley kajolie!!

You just gave ME a heart attack too. Thanks!

Tara said...

Ha haha... Oh my! I shouldn't laugh because I know how scary that would be but... it's funny.

Heather said...

Phew!

Glad everything is good!

loribeth said...

You just about gave ME a heart attack too! Glad it was only the hair dye!

Michelle said...

OMG LOL I needed this laugh! Thanks.

So so glad it was your hair!

Shelby said...

Oh, wow. I would've surely had a coronary (considering my heart did a leap just in reading the first few lines)! So glad it was hair dye!!

PJ said...

ahahaaaaaa! whew! Soooooo glad it wasn't anything bad.

Lavender Luz said...

You should stick with brunette.

Whew!

theclam said...

DUDE! I nearly crapped in my pants... SO glad it was just hair dye ;)

xxx

Parenthood For Me said...

shit- how red is that dye job? When you wrote ASSESS, I thought maybe it was coming from your arse. Really glad it was the hair.

JamieD said...

Holy crap - I almost had a heart attack!

Thanks for the heads up about listening to your hairdresser. That is ALWAYS useful information!!

~Jess said...

Oh my gosh! I would've had a heart attack too! I'm glad it was nothing.

The Swann's said...

ROFL!!! That's freaking hilarious!!!!! After the fact anyways. :-)

Geohde said...

Heh.

I just coloured my hair and had a similar non-pregnant experience.

Nuff said.

g

Kymberli said...

You owe me a new laptop. The mouthful of Pepsi...well, it's not in my mouth anymore.

Cannot believe that you are 36 weeks along. How the heck did THAT happen so fast?

MrsSpock said...

I would have needed the TP for something else, because I would totally have been shitting myself!