March 12th, 2007
When we moved here I found it difficult to cope. I was closer to family, but I had no friends within an hours drive. That can be really hard sometimes when you just need someone other then family and your spouse.
There are things you can’t necessarily talk about with family and husbands expecting that they’d find the humour in it like a girlfriend might - like how your boobs have magically transformed into tennis balls inside pantyhose since having a child. See.. I don’t think my dad and I could laugh about that over a beer together. Not cool.
So, a good friend, who I have now affectionately given the name MarthafreakinStewart, moved closer. She’s now situated herself as the halfway point between me and another good friend. Perfect for us. Not so much for the husbands.
We’ve been having GNO (girl’s night out) much more often since her move; the latest being this past Friday when the three of us were able to get together (for the second time in about 3 weeks). During this bitchfest wine night get together, she reminded me of a story she’d shared at a previous GNO; a late night telephone call to Telehealth.
You know, those calls, when you’ve just arrived home after giving birth, things just don’t seem right and you have a compulsion to ask questions about anything and everything that just may seem off? She had a legitimate reason to call.. her son hadn’t pooped in as many days as he was old.
So, she calls Telehealth. They go through the spell of questions which leads to the same conclusion every time. Go to the emergency room; cuz that’s not going to freak the shit out of a new mom.
At the end of the call the nurse very calmly says, “Now remember. Don’t shake the baby.”
This is a very real danger, shaking the baby; but for some reason we thought this comment was the funniest thing ever! To this day, when one of us pissed off about something we always remind each other; “Now, don’t shake the baby.”
Only drunk moms I tell ya.
I highly doubt that others could ever see the humour in a comment like that.
Or it’s just me?
Errr I wish my computer at work wasn’t so stupid. This comment is supposed to be for your one that you end with getting drunk alone at the end….
….Just had to say, you made me laugh.
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:24 pm