When we officially met with the doctor and decided on IVF, I said to Michael, "You know that a pineapple is a symbol for IVF, right?" He became elated saying that this is a good sign and that this will be our answer. Why would a pineapple make him excited and hopeful? To understand, I have to tell you more about our story- PRE infertility.
Michael planned a whole special getaway weekend on December 1, 2018. He was claiming it was a belated birthday gift, but really it was all part of his plan to propose to me. We went to this cute bed and breakfast in Gettysburg. He scheduled massages and got the biggest room in the place. Being the biggest room also meant it had the biggest tub and I love me a good tub to soak in!
We go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant and get a bottle of champagne. Since it was a pricy bottle, we felt obligated to finish it. For Michael, this is no big deal. For me... I am a total light weight! I am feeling REALLY good and we drive back to the bed and breakfast. I try to get Michael to go to the media room and pick a DVD, but he is insisting we go straight to the room. He opens the door and I dashed to the bathroom because I HAD TO GO (remember the champagne?). As I am sitting on the toilet, my brain says, "Oh f**K!" I realized that there were rose petals and flowers all over the room and I just trampled over them all to pee. I felt so horrible! Poor Michael was left waiting in the other room anxiously waiting to pop the questions and I made him wait longer! I hurried up and came out and he asked me to be his wife and I of course said YES. After kissing him, I began profusely apologizing! He admitted he was scared for a split second, but then just laughed saying it was the perfect addition to our story.
Michael then goes into telling me his "escape plan" for if I said "no" as a joke. The code word was "Pineapple Juice." If things went south, all he had to do was call his dad, say "pineapple juice" and he would drive there immediately with a 6 pack in tow. So we called his dad and I screamed, "No pineapple juice!" into the phone. This became a running joke with pineapple Christmas gifts and pineapple décor at our engagement party, and Michael even wore pineapple socks on our wedding day.
So while IVF is very intimidating, we are going to lean into it and have fun when we can. EMBRACE THE PINEAPPLE!
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