The thought of becoming a mother truly never crossed my mind in my earlier years. Driven by career,and a sense of wanting to give back to my nation and making it even better were all that seem to matter to me. I enjoyed my motivational speeches as they gave me such joy to see the light bulbs go off in the young minds that I was so privileged to touch even for a minute. That light bulb that told them that they could be anything they wanted to be if they only focus their energies into positive goals. Last year was not much different; I continued my quest to be the positive voice in the midst of negativity that seems to permeate throughout our nation. However, my hormones had me going nuts, and my doctor decided it was time for medication to regulate them. I was told that this was a common problem found in women so I didn’t pay it much mind except for the horrible side effects of the medication.
One day last year, my period went missing in action and I didn’t think much of it as I had experienced this before with my “happy and unpredictable hormones” so I figured time to return to my doctor for another batch of tests and another set of those horrible tablets that were as small as a nail head but packed the punch of a bulldozer. So I walked into my doctor’s office, and I began my rant about hating those pills and if there was nothing else that could replace them. She looked at me with her usual smile and said “let’s check to see if you might be pregnant first” I looked at her like she had lost all her marbles. What!!!! Is she crazy? My doctor had lost her mind. So just to humour her, off I went to the bathroom to collect the pee sample all the while I am saying why is this woman putting me through this. After giving her the sample, she went into her room to test while I changed the topic and began my rant again about these tablets. In the middle of my rants, I heard my doctor snicker and I turned around. She then said somebody is going to be a grandmother. My response was “WHAT” and an uncontrollable laughter rose from inside of me as I began to laugh till water came out of my eyes and snot ran out of my nose. My brain began to scramble like a television channel that lost its signal while she placed the pregnancy test in front of me so I could see the confirmation. I looked at it in disbelief and still continued to laugh. Somewhere between my laughter I heard her say something about blood test to confirm although she knew the results already and that I had to return to her office as soon as I had taken the test.
I walked out her office in a complete and utter daze.I could not remember where I parked my car but somehow I eventually got there and sat in my hot car for about 15 minutes with the windows turned up and no air condition. It was so hot I felt like I was like I was roasting like a BBQ chicken on a grill. I looked down at my phone which was in my hand and wondered who I could call to relay this crazy news. Yep I called my sister and hoped with every fibre in my being that she would answer her phone. She did answer and as she recognized my voice she said hey sister what’s up. The words tumbled out of my mouth and I was not sure I made any sense until I heard crying on the phone. Her response OMG sister I am so happy for you and she was in full on bawling. WHAT!!! This day is getting crazier by the minute. Crying is not the response I expected to hear but I knew she was crying because she was so happy. She then told me what an amazing mother I would be and how she was so happy and how much things we need to plan. My response was “Arm……okay” She then asked me how I felt about the news and I responded that I didn’t know as it did not sink in as yet. After she told me that she would be there with me every step of the way as I knew she would be, I told her I would call her back and hang up. I started my vehicle and began to drive back to my office. That had to be the slowest drive in my life because my brain had taken an unannounced holiday. I got to my office and sat at my desk for another 10 minutes with tons of thoughts racing through my head all at once. First thought was how in the world am I supposed to tell my mother this news? Am I ready to be somebody’s mother, Me? A mother? Can I do this? Wait a cotton picking minute what she mean I pregnant. I decided to drown myself in my work and put that craziness on the back burner because my poor brain seemed to be on overload and I could not process this information. Wait a minuteI had to take that blood test the next day, okay back burner again as my brain refused to compute the information. So off into my work I went and I really accomplished a lot of work that day.
Leaving work that day, I was still in a daze because I had to figure out what I would say to my mother. How would she take the news? Yep you guessed it my brain clocked out on me again. For someone whose brain is always working at full capacity even when asleep this new function of my brain was becoming a bit annoying. So I arrived at home and I greeted my mom as usual and hastily retreated into my room. I sat on my bed with my head in my hands trying to get my brain to think straight. Am I dreaming this? Okay maybe I am dreaming and I will wake up shortly. Nope, I am not dreaming because I just pinched myself and it hurt. So I decided to call my mom and to have a talk with her. She came into my room and I began my talk like I think most daughters would do when they are having this type of discussion. Mom, remember I told you I was going to the doctor today? Her response was yes and what did she say do you have to go back on those horrible tablets? My response – Well she said that you are going to be a grandmother. My mom looked at me like I was an alien. She said what you mean. My response well mom she says I am pregnant. My mother went completely silent for about 5 minutes. Anxious for a response I asked – are you not going to say anything? Her response was – Arm, I need to wrap my mind around this and get back to you. With that, my mother made a swift exit out my room. Oh great, that was not the response I expected but at least I got it out the way. As I laid down to get some rest I thought of the day I had just experienced and said well the Heavenly Father brought me to this and he going have to carry me through it.
Woke up the next morning feeling like I got 1 hour of sleep but I knew I had that blood test to take so I had to organize myself quickly and get this test over with. So I got to the lab and I sat patiently for them to call my name to take my test. As my name was called, I got up and went in to have my blood drawn. I asked the technician if I could wait for the results and she told me I could. That had to be the longest 20 minutes of my life as I waited and waited and waited. She finally called me in and gave me my results to take to my doctor;she smiled at me, told me my test was positive, and congratulated me. The only response I could muster was “OH WOW.”
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