Come ON people, Turtle's middle name is obviously Phoncible, Jr.

Thanks! Didn't want to be needy, but it's the first thing I've done completely for me that I've been really excited about in ages.

ND, drive safe, sweetie.

Watch out, the gel is cold, and they don't warm it up for you.

I'm thinking she's gonna get an internal.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t change my comment.

It’s basically a wand with a condom on it. The whole time they were doing their thing, I kept thinking, “shouldn’t this feel better? I mean, I usually enjoy this sort of thing.”

My feeling is that it's a middle name and should therefore yield a minimum amount of trauma. But I may just be in deep denial. DH likes the name too. My sister has vetoed it on principle, but she doesn't really get a vote.

Eh. I have an unusual middle name, it’s the maiden names of my grandmothers. I hated it when I was a kid, and used to tell people that my middle name was Ann. Now I love it, and will do it for my daughter. Assuming that the future Mr. Stephanie Johnson gets off his ass and enters my life sometime soon.

ND, get a move on or else you will be stuck in Friday afternoon rush hour traffic. Also, mucho punctuation. I hope it gets better.

Congratulations on the impending boy-sprog, Jessica and FoneBone! I'm very happy for you.

House~ma to Sue.

ION, I just had to post this in Bitches -- I just discovered that our office in China is on Long Dong Avenue in Shanghai. Snorfle. It was all I could do not to spray my co-worker with Diet Coke. I evidently am still in the throes of puberty.

I just hope I never have to give that address out verbally. I'd never make it through without giggling hysterically.

Edited to give a heaping serving of "Woo hoo!" to my sorella. The masters' program sounds wonderful.

Watch out, the gel is cold, and they don't warm it up for you.

The place I go to for my kidney ultrasounds uses a baby's bottle warmer to warm the gel.

It’s basically a wand with a condom on it. The whole time they were doing their thing, I kept thinking, “shouldn’t this feel better? I mean, I usually enjoy this sort of thing.”

Oh yeah - I kept thinking the same sort of thing, but ya know ... different. Hee.

The gel for my ultrasound yesterday was also warmed up.

I evidently am still in the throes of puberty.

Oh, you're not the only one.

KristinT, my mum went to Bread Loaf (the Vermont one) back in the early 70s. I'm not sure it was even a degree program then, but it's definitely one of the big-daddy-awesome names in writing programs. Go team you!

It may not be pleasurable the way a wand with a condom ought to be, but it is delightfully less uncomfortable than a speculum. As an exam tool, I'd take the dildocam over the speculum, or even the doctor's hand (most painful prt of childbirth? the "digital" dilation check, that bastard), any day of the week.

Yeah, I've had these before (Oh, the joy of being a DES daughter!) and much prefer tour firned the dildocam to a speculum. Plus the tech is usually great about pointing things out so you can see what's going on the geeky part of me likes that stuff.