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Husband: We are heading to urgent care for Cady
Me: What happened?????
Husband: abdominal pain
**long pause**
Me: Uh... cramps?
Yes. This is a text conversation I had with my husband. If you know anything about this blog, I have six sisters. My husband has two, who are about 5 and 10 years older than him. He's not been around the drama that is menstruation for his entire life. I'll give him that. He has been married to me for 10 years, though, and I've had more than my share of periods during that time. But this is his princess. This pain can't be normal.
I ask him for her symptoms, and here they are:
- Nausea
- General Crankiness
- Pain on the left side below her bellybutton, but close to her hip
- This has happened before. Last time, though, it happened on her right side
- Sudden onset
My prescription: Midol and a Heating Pad.
In spite of my assertion that this is just normal ovulation cramps, we agree that he has to do what he has to do, and off they go to urgent care. He sends me a couple of frantic texts about ovarian cysts and infertility before I realize that he's self-diagnosing on WebMD, and then it's radio silence.
In the meantime, I've taken my sons to Scouts (I'm the Webelos leader), and I'm giggling with my sister-in-law about her ridiculous brother. As Scouts is nearing the end, my husband comes arrives at the church building sans Cady with a serious look on his face. My heart lurches as I ask for the update.
Huzzah! I shouldn't be so pleased that I was right and he was wrong, but I'll be the first to admit that he's usually right.
His explanation of his thinking was priceless: "The nausea, the sudden pain... all I could think of was when I had appendicitis! My daughter has appendicitis! I was certain we were going to be heading in for an emergency appendectomy."
There are two morals to this story. 1) my husband loves our daughter so much, his usually very logical manner flies right out the window when she's in pain, and 2) the pain women go through each month is pretty much the equivalent to appendicitis. I shall now be referring to it as my monthly appendicitis.
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