Married two months . . .

    After we were married about two months I started having pain in my stomach. Since I was still working I went to the medical complex which I had used and they assigned me to the woman doctor. She examined me and then asked, "How long have you been married?" I told her and she started scolding me, she said, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with you and you should be ashamed of yourself! Start considering your poor husband and give him more attention. Stop being such a crybaby!" Well, I was pretty devastated and after church the next day we went to my parents' home for lunch. I had another severe attack and Rona said, "You need to go to the doctor!" to which I replied, "I'm not going back again to be told that iI am imagining things!" She said, "Don't be silly, you are obviously in a lot of pain" Well, I returned the next day and was assigned to one of the male doctors. As soon as he examined me he sent me to their surgeon who immediately sent me to the hospital. He said, "Don't even go home first, go now! I will them to admit you to the surgical ward. They prepped me  and the next thing I knew I was in surgery where the
surgeon removed my appendix. I had acute appendicitis!!! The surgeon told me that he even found stones in my appendix and that it was the first time he had ever done that. He said that I must have had the sickness for a long time for them to form. So much for that woman doctor -- if she could even be called a doctor!
    When we had been married six months I told Mel that I wanted a baby. He agreed and within weeks I knew that we were soon going to be parents! I was still working for the Tax Department and one day, after about four months I told my supervisor that I didn't feel well and asked if I could go up to the "sick room." She asked one of the girls to go with me. A little later she, the supervisor, came and asked, "Do you think you may be pregnant?" I answered in the affirmative and she said, rather dryly, "Well, these things do happen after you get married, you know." She was a farmer and she used to leave her farm in the hands of her farm workers while she came to the tax office. She was a  very down-to-earth sort of woman.