more reasons to be hopeful
i may not be nauseated, but i am crazy tired and hungry and, dare i say it, i think i've got me some glow. but i also have my own unique sign-o-pregnancy: armpits that smell like onions.
they are rank. unshowered late-adolescent male rank. middle-aged french man with moustache crowded next to you on the subway rank. neglected nursing home resident rank. call in the environmental protection agency guys in their hazmat suits rank. i can hardly stand myself.
the same thing happened to me with hans. in fact, the sudden development of swamp-pits was the first sign that something was percolating, so i take encouragement from it now. before it happened, i had always been one of those odorless people, so it's pretty startling. i can't find anything in any of the literature about developing - i can't bring myself to say it - and in fact, women who commonly have, you know, often lose it when they become pregnant because of something hormonal but i can't remember exactly what. but i talked to my ob about it last time, and while it's unusual, it's a reasonable symptom of the changes in my body, so i'm going with it.
and if this child lives and is healthy, i don't care how stinky i had to get to make it happen.
they are rank. unshowered late-adolescent male rank. middle-aged french man with moustache crowded next to you on the subway rank. neglected nursing home resident rank. call in the environmental protection agency guys in their hazmat suits rank. i can hardly stand myself.
the same thing happened to me with hans. in fact, the sudden development of swamp-pits was the first sign that something was percolating, so i take encouragement from it now. before it happened, i had always been one of those odorless people, so it's pretty startling. i can't find anything in any of the literature about developing - i can't bring myself to say it - and in fact, women who commonly have, you know, often lose it when they become pregnant because of something hormonal but i can't remember exactly what. but i talked to my ob about it last time, and while it's unusual, it's a reasonable symptom of the changes in my body, so i'm going with it.
and if this child lives and is healthy, i don't care how stinky i had to get to make it happen.
posted by laura at 11:45 PM
4 Comments:
okay...so why is smelly guy on the subway FRENCH??
yay for your smelly pits! hoorah!
i'm cooking an indian curry right now and my apartment smells like onions (and curry)...and i'm hoping you don't develop curry pits to go with the onion.
He's French, because had he been Czech, I would have taken issue.
Being a stinky Czech myself.
curry pits??? lovely. i guess i should be thankful it's only onion pits.
and french because i was thinking about being on the paris metro at peak hours. a sometimes odiferous experience.
having been on both the paris metro and the ny subway at rush hour, i must say that i really don't think there's a stink difference (and no, that's not just my french defensiveness and pride speaking). rush hour and public transportation is always a stinky gross affair, no matter where you are.
especially in summer.
and especially if you always get stuck rightby the guy that's been doing manual labor in the steamy subway tunnels all day.
ew.
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