Posts Tagged ‘Boys’

Why I’m Finally Psyched to be Having a Boy

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Whose vagina exploded?

Whose vagina exploded?

When I first found out I was having a boy, there were the stages of grief. You know, shock, denial, numbness, staring paralyzed, mouth slightly agape, at all the racks of cute girlie shit in the baby store until the clerk probably thought I was having a mild stroke.

Now, that has all gone away.

Maybe I have Stockholm Syndrome. I have fallen in love with my little captor because I have no choice: this fetus has a penis. Either way, it may have taken me a full two months or so, but I am so good with this boy thing right now.

It started with something simple, just the notion of one single phrase, the vision of me walking through my front door after work and asking, “Where’s the boy?”

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Brain Tumors: Not So Funny

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

 

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me, bald bryan and adam

Yesterday, I did Adam Carolla’s podcast with Bryan Bishop, who fans know as Bald Bryan.

It’s not as bad as it sounds, but few things sound worse than “inoperable brain tumor,” which is what Bryan has. He just found out a couple of weeks ago, and is now getting radiation and chemotherapy. 

I’ve known about this for a while, but that did not stop me from coming completely unglued on the drive home. I am confident Bryan will be okay, I just wish he and his family didn’t have to go through something so terrifying. 

Sitting there on Adam’s podcast couch hearing Bryan’s story, I kept thinking, I hope my baby boy has some of BB’s characteristics. I’m going to have to ask his mother how the heck she raised that kid. It’s not just that he’s exceptionally intelligent and decent, both of which he is, but more that he is plain old happy. I can’t say that for most people I know, or for myself, and seeing a real live happy person and working closely with him for three years was edifying. Bryan says he is made for fighting cancer, because he is physically strong and emotionally balanced. I agree. He is also unbelievably, relentlessly sunny, which should make him unbearable but never does. 

Stay tuned, because he and his fiancee will be blogging.

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