April fools surprise...... But for real!

by Ashley Sutherland
(Havelock NC)

My Husband and I meet in High school we were best friends for about 6 years. He is in the Marines and was about to deploy for the second time to Iraq when we had a weird feeling I was pregnant. We were going to bed and he asked if I had taken the pregnancy test yet and I said no. I was really nervous because I had taken one the month before and it was negative.

We both wanted a baby but didn't think it would happen that fast we had only tried for about two months. Well I had gone to the bathroom right before bed and then once in the middle of the night. When we woke up the next morning he said babe will you please take it and it kind of hit me that there was a good possibility I was because I already had to go again so I agreed.

Well after almost fainting in the bathroom I ran out screaming his name and saying "IT SAYS POSITIVE!!!" That was the beginning of it all. The very next week he left to Iraq and I was devastated. It was so much harder than the first time. But you suck it up because there was nothing I could do.

My Mom flew out the next day and we drove from NC all the way back to AZ. As soon as we got there the morning sickness started. It was so bad I ended up going to the hospital from being dehydrated. Well it was April 1st and they said they were going to do an ultrasound just to make sure everything was ok. So as she is doing the ultrasound I kept asking if everything was ok and she says "We are not suppose to tell you anything but I'm going to ask the Dr if I can ok." So I waited in the room for what felt like 6 hrs. and she came back and said "well it is still really early but it looks like your having twins!!"

I sat up and looked her in the eyes and said " Ma'am this better not be an April fools joke because it is really not funny!" She just laughed and showed me the screen and I started to cry with joy.

I had to wait a whole day and a half to talk to my husband and tell him witch he about came out of his skin. He was so excited!

The morning sickness got better and we found out it was two girls and everything was really normal. Until about 27 weeks I had just came back to NC and my Mom had a Dr. appointment that day for a mammogram because she had a lump in her breast. Everyone said it is probably nothing but when she called me that night I just knew. She said she had breast cancer and I hit the floor. Alone in my house and the only words I could say was " Oh God" Over and over again. My first thoughts were I'll give them back if she could just be ok. But it doesn't work like that and I love them more than anything.

So I listened to her telling me the way things would be going for the next few weeks. All she cared about was that I was ok and the girls were going to be ok.

I called my husbands CO and told him he needs to get my husband to call me right away. We sat on the phone and I just cried and cried he didn't really know what to say but just listened. It was the hardest thing in the world not to be able to be there with her and hug her. At that time I was too far along to fly back there so I was stuck here and she was stuck there.

She started her chemo and it is going as well as can be expected. My husband got to come home on September 28th and He has been a huge help. I'm 36 weeks now and so ready to see and hold our little angels. We are going to fly out with the girls right after they are born to go see their Oma ( Grandma in dutch) for Christmas. They are going to do a c-section on Nov 12th so we are just playing the waiting game now until then.

So far it has been one crazy scary wonderful ride and I can't wait to see what happens next!