perry como vs obi wan kenobi
to ease any confusion, here's a helpful table to help keep the peri and the ob straight:
- peri: really short. ob: freakishly tall
- peri: hair plugs, or maybe mid-treatment w/rogaine. ob: full head of hair, often needs haircut.
- peri: kinda cute, except for the uneven hairline. ob: kinda attractive, except has beeker-from-the-muppets-like head.
- peri: about my age. ob: about 10 years older.
- peri: favors dark blue shirts. ob: favors dark purple shirts.
- peri: favors black loafers. ob: sometimes sports ill-advised multi-colored pastel topsiders.
- peri: doctor of my dreams, in terms of manner. ob: subject of an adult dream during my first pregnancy involving a lab coat.
- peri: favors amnio at 36w to test lung maturity and induction around 37w. ob: staunchly opposed to any induction before 39 weeks but might agree to strip membranes at 38.
- peri: thinks biggest risk of c-section caused by waiting too late and letting milo get too big. ob: thinks biggest risk of c-section caused by stalled labor if inducing before 39w.
- peri: thinks risks of amnio minimal. ob: thinks amnio too risky.
- peri: thinks my anxiety is a good reason to have milo soon. ob: not taking my mental health concerns seriously, thinks all will be solved by having a healthy baby.
- peri: hasn't talked to my ob. ob: hasn't talked to my peri.
- peri: thinks my rash is ringworm. ob: thinks my rash is PUPPS. (me: thinks both of them are wrong.)
i hope this information will be helpful. also, please note the peri referenced above is the gd gd peri, not to be confused with the fetal diagnostic peri, who has not yet weighed in on the delivery plan, and who is a female and french-canadian. the fd peri is the peri i see next, on friday after the NST. i saw her briefly yesterday but hadn't seen her before then since the nuchal fold translucency scan at 14w or so, although she told me she has been kept informed about me, so no doubt she has formulated an opinion, too, although probably in french, so no one will understand a goddamn word of it.
posted by laura at 9:35 PM
4 Comments:
All I can say is that you crack me up!
I just love the way you write. But seriously, I know this isn't funny for you and I'm sorry they can't seem to agree. Oh the stress of the last very scary few weeks!! It sucks.
Do not hesitate to contact me for translation from French-Canadian English to regular English. I took high school French...and I work with two former residents of La Belle Province. It's all in inserting h's where they've left them off...
P.S. I am so dense. I was half way through your post before I realized that you were not actually talking about perry como and obi wan kenobi. Yeesh.
Not French, my friend, Quebecios, which is a whole other ball of tabernac!
A friend of a friend that is an acquaintance of mine had a stillbirth the day before her due date.
She changed doctors and called her ob at 37 weeks in tears and frightened and freaked out that her baby had died.
It hadn't, but out of compassion, he told her right then to get over to the hospital and he would induce her right then and there. She now has two living sons and of course her stillborn son.
When I asked her for an ob recommendation at the beginning of my pregnancy (without knowing about the stillbirth; just that she'd had a hard time for some reason or other), she gave her ob a GLOWING recommendation and begged hiim to take me but he was full.
Compassion. Your OB needs compassion.
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