Wednesday, 14 January 2009

• Finding Out I Did Not Have A Tumor...

  
                                
  Ok I know the title is confusing. I did not find out I was pregnant until I was about five months along due to fearing I had a fatal disease and also due to the fact that I was on the Depo Shot. Here is the awesome story about how we found out about Arthur.
  
  Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 runs in my family and sometimes it causes tumors to grow. Most of my family members that have had MEN 1 have had tumors on their gastrointestinal tract as well. The symptoms for this are tiredness, swelling of the ankles and feet, diarrhea, and a fullness in the abdomen. I completely started panicing for the wrong reason because the tumors that MEN 1 causes are cancerous. I went to the doctor and, after hearing about my family history and all started testing me for only the gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor that might be growing in my abdomen. I did not even fathom that I was pregnant as I was on Depo at the time. Well obviosly the doctors did not find any tumors (no they did not ultrasound or x-ray me its basically a bunch of urine and blood tests).
  
  We went home and got ready to celebrate New Years in New Jersey with his mom.(Now I won't go into our whole new years but lets just say it was more stereotypical college student than the rest of the year.)January 3rd he suggests to me that maybe I should go take a pregnancy test just in case as I was still having those symptoms and they hadn't found a tumor but my stomach was still firm). So I said sure why not. We went down to the grocery store next to his familys restaurant and I went in and bought a box of three(in case one messed up) while he and his friends went in to grab our food. Went went back to the house and we ate then I disappeared (we didn't alert his friends just in case it was a no) and came back out and sat at the computer eerily silent. He came over (seeing as he knew where I went) and asked me how it went and I told him that all three had come back positive. He immeadiatly started freaking out and asked his friends to leave as nicely as he could muster. He then proceeded to sit in the corner and cry( I of course was ecstatic I DID NOT HAVE A TUMOR I WAS GOING TO BE FINE!! YAY! It is just a baby....oh wait JUST a baby??) . We told his mom that night and called his friends the next day.  They came over a couple days later (by then Ian loved the fact he was going to be a daddy) and they and Ian came up with arthurs name (he is named after the alias of George Constanza on Seinfeld Art Vandelay).
  Three months to the day Arthur was born happy and healthy. 
  

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