Do They Always Have To Think I Am Pregnant?

A few nights ago, after I wrote my last insane blog entry, I went to a movie and dinner with a friend. I was contemplating whether or not I should call her, if it was worth putting make-up on my teenage-boy-puberty stricken face, when she called me. I obviously needed to get out. After the movie we were sitting in the restaurant and all of a sudden that familiar feeling came over me. I know it well. The churning, that fainting feeling, the breaking out in a cold sweat. I asked to go, and my sweet friend drove as fast as she could home to prevent me barfing in her car. She was so kind, and fortunately I made it to the side of my house before throwing up at least a month's worth of something.

The next day as I was telling my daughter the gory details she became very quiet. She is 16 years old, and I remember when she was two she would go into the bathroom when I was pregnant with my third, lifting the toilet seat, gagging, and pretending to throw-up. That is what she saw me do, so she did it. It is what we did all day. I noticed her lack of words which is something in itself. She doesn't run out of words...Ever. She half whispers to me in a panicked voice, "Are you pregnant?" I say to myself, "Can't a girl throw-up without the whole world thinking she is pregnant?" Honestly...What's that all about!