The bomb that was dropped Pearl Harbor Day 2007

It was a year ago today, on Pearl Harbor Day, that a "bomb" of sorts was dropped! I remember going in early that morning for my pregnancy blood test and having to wait all day long for a phone call to find out the results, even though I truly did not think that it was going to come back positive. The month before, I really thought that I was pregnant so when I got the call telling me it was a BIG FAT NEGATIVE, I can't deny that I was rather disappointed. Maybe this experience was part of the reason why I was a bit skeptical the second time around.

Anyhow, I had been teaching that day and every time I got a break, I would check my voicemail thinking there would be a message for me but there wasn't. I was told that morning that I would receive a call by 4:00pm. As that hour rolled around without any word, my anxiety hit an all-time high. Pearl Harbor Day last year fell on a Friday and I was afraid that I wouldn't hear anything and then have to wonder all weekend long. Fortunately, just a few minutes before 4:00pm, I got that awaited phone call when I heard on the other line: "Congratulations on your positive test!" My ears could not believe what they were hearing and I was in shock! I guess after 4+ years of trying to conceive, finally hearing that we were successful was definitely a surprise to me. It wasn't that I was being negative in my thinking but I didn't want to get myself excited and then get disappointed again like what happened the month before. However, the nurse did give a disclaimer and told me that I'd have to come back on Monday to have another beta as sometimes people have false-positive results but that my hcg levels were in the 400-500 range, which was really good.

Now it was time to call Eric to tell him the news. For those who don't know my husband very well, he is a big-time teaser. He loves to tell people the opposite of what is really truth just to get a rise out of them and it drives everyone batty, especially me! He has done this so many times and with really big news so I jumped at my chance to get back at him. I was driving home from work when I called him on my cell phone to tell him that I had heard back from the doctor's office and that I had something to tell him, but I was using a disappointed voice to relay this to him. Eric thought for sure that it was a negative result but then I surprised him big time, just as the Japanese had done at Pearl Harbor 66 years prior with a BIG FAT POSITIVE!

We were both very happy to hear that we were finally expecting a baby. Little did we know then that this "bomb" would have an even bigger impact than we had thought possible!