A Mother's Day Away....

Today I decided to get away from my family for an entire seven hours!!! Isn't that wonderful? Of course it would be, if I were shopping or catching a movie, but I was at the doctor. I was lucky enough to be able to get an appointment with my perinatologist on a day where they were overbooked and short staffed! Just what a pregnant woman needs...sit in a chair for hours, deprive themselves of food and water, and read outdated magazines with goodness knows what kind of germs crawling all over them! Once the nurse finally called my name I was thrilled!Could this really be it? Will my appointment finally begin? I have to admit I was a little giddy. I even planned what I would go get for lunch on the way home.She weighed me, took my blood pressure and then led me to another room. I was a little disoriented when I walked through the door and saw everyone who had walked through the door before me! I screamed in my head "NOOOOOO!" ( or maybe that was just my stomach growling) Anyway, we were in waiting room number two.I was starting to wonder how many waiting rooms I would have to endure . Different magazines , same bordeom. After about another 45 minutes I was ready for my ultrasound. That's when the party really got started! I was there to have them look at my cervix, but I forgot how much fun my uterine abnormalities are for ultrasound techs. It's kind of like a side show! The tech called in a resident doctor. Then she said " I'm sure other people will want to see this , I'll be right back." She went out the door and was gone for a good while . I couldn't see much through the crack of the door, but I think I saw her giving out tickets. A few minutes later I swear I heard "Ultrasound , party of 4"...of course this could have been my ears playing tricks on me. At this point I had missed lunch and you know how that can mess up a pregnant woman. So...4 people came in to check out today's Feture Presentation "Christine's womb: a reproductive story". I understand that this office is a teaching clinic and since I am so unique they wanted to use me as a teachable moment. Being an educator, I'm all for teachable moments, but when you are in various stages of undress with a ton of ultrasound goo smeared on your belly ,its just a little hard to get on the education bandwagon. After the party was over and all of the little uterus gawkers had cleared the room I was in for more waiting! I waited to get into the room to see the doctor and then I waited to actually see the doctor. Luckily I had some Tic Tacs in my purse for lunch . After all this time the doctor told me that although my cervix was short, it was not short enough! What?!! I can't win..not long enough, not short enough. I feel like such a failure. I hate hearing I'm not "good" enough. He said that it neeed to get shorter before he could sew it shut. But, here's the catch...I only had 2 weeks for it to shrink.After that they couldn't do the procedure. I am even more confused than ever! Do I pray that it doesn't shrink ? If it doesn't and I miss the window it could be problematic. I would still have 12 weeks for the silly thing to disappear which would definately land me in the hospital. Or...do I pray that it shrinks small enough, but not too small , so that the doc can sew me up and hope that it doesn't cause me to go into labor , cause infections..etc...etc. Wow! Talk about a rock and a hard place. Very confused. Not that I have much control over it anyway! At least after this marathon doctors appointment I was able to get him to take pity on me and give me a piece of pizza which he had just ordered for his staff. ( I'm pretty good at puppy dog eyes.) And the best part is that next week I get to go to not one...but two doctor's appointments! Woo hooo! I better bring a big book to read, do you think War and Peace will be long enough?