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Strange Places to Take a Pregnancy Test

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An Old Fashioned Phone Call

"When I was testing the availability of home tests was limited and those out there were unreliable, expensive and complicated so most of us in the early 80's still took a urine sample to our doctor or a lab for testing.

"With dd we were traveling (we lived in Charleston, SC but dh was on a temporary duty assignment in Groton, CT and I was with him). You were supposed to call after 3 p.m. to get results from tests left in the a.m. There were no cell phones then either (sounds like it was the stone age yet only 28 years ago) so we had to call in for the results from a pay phone. We were in the middle of a community area (theater, banks, stores, etc.) on a military base using the phone - we wanted to hear at the same time so we were both huddled over the receiver and when they said positive we started jumping and hugging and crying...anyone around us must have thought we had gone nuts. We hung up and immediately called my parents, then dh parents and then our best friends (none of this waiting until 12 weeks for us) so we were on that pay phone for a long time jumping, hugging and crying as we reshared the news three times....yep crazy people."

-Diane

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