2007-06-26
An Act of God?!
Wouldn't you know it?!!!
So I get the vasectomy nearly three months ago, my wife and I have the best sex of our marriage, and she turns up pregnant! We have to be the world's worst family planners!
So for those of you that are not familiar with the vasectomy process, the doc cuts the tubes, but it does not make the man immediately sterile. There are sperm that were previously loaded that need to get out of the way (or die) before serility. That is why men are supposed to go back and get checked before they stop using another form of birth control.
The word from the doctor and what everything I have read is that you are usually good to go after two months or 12 ejaculations. Well, after the first month, I was well past 12 and by the time my wife actually should have been ripe for the second month, we were way, way, way past 12, but we had gotten sloppy with our secondary means of control.
I wanted to get my sperm checked before we left for vacation, but the lab could not work me in (who knew you had call weeks ahead?). So my wife would have been ripe during vacation and we did it like hormonal teens all week (my wife actually came four times one night, it was fantastic!).
Anyway, the week after we got back from vacation, I had my sperm test and of course the doctor calls up and says, "Don't stop your secondary form of birth control, you still have some swimmers. Come back in to get retested in two months." I knew before I hung up the phone that baby number 5 was going to be on the way and indeed the pregnancy test over the weekend confirmed it. We will have five kids ages six and less.
My wife is afraid that she will need to be institutionalized. But I have been trying to tell her that if ever there was an act of God involved, this is it. This new baby must be the one that will cure cancer or AIDS. God must have just thought that we were stopping too soon.
So that is the big news for today. We now have a million questions to answer about cars, space in the house, and a whole host of other things. But we have some time to deal with those.
I have found my wife's secret sexual weakness and I think that post this next pregnancy, my cold spells will be gone for good! More on that later.
-- rockabillie at 9:38 a.m.