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Weekly Contest #296
They hand me a clipboard at the baby’s first appointment. I pushed a living being out of my own body two days ago and they want to know if, “I’ve been able to laugh and see the funny side of things” Do they mean how funny it was to lift my freshly wounded body from the seat of the car today? Or how humorous my waddle from the parking lot to the doors, and then over to this waiting room seat was? You try walking with an icepack, a postpartum mega-ultra-super diaper pad on your recently sewn up vagina and try laughing about it. I circled “As...
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