Posts by Terry Wells

briskbadger11 said:Just a moment, I suppose I should wait until my first morning trip to the restroom?

Yeah, better do that... hormone levels are at their peak then, so if you actually are pregnant, you’ll likely see it by tomorrow morning...

Look, if you're freaking out, just head over to a 24-hour CVS right now and grab any test you can find... I think they're going for maybe $15 or $20 these days 😕 This was ages ago, honestly—just wait until tomorrow morning, use your first urine sample, and then you can finally stop stressing your life away 🙂

Gregory Campbell75 said:My husband and I played it safe for two years, even when we first got married. I was always tracking my cycle, trying to figure out the fertile windows just so he’d know when to pull out. But the first time we actually tried during ovulation? He finished inside, and boom—I was pregnant.😍I didn't even feel any symptoms until a month later.
But honestly, everyone is different. You see people struggling for years without even tracking ovulation, and still nothing happens.
If you want a baby, you pray to God that you're pregnant😍, and if you don't, you pray you aren't. 🙂
Jokes aside, five days is way too soon to jump to conclusions. Even if you are pregnant, a test probably won't show anything yet. Just hang tight and take a test in two weeks.
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I'm with her...
We spent seven years being careful, and then one day it just felt like "now's the time," so we decided to go for it... and it happened immediately. Two times and there was the baby... so fingers crossed for you...
As for proof... just give it another 10 to 14 days, then take a test...
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I don't know, I had a massive spread of homemade cookies—my mom, my sisters, my godmother, my aunts... you name it, they were there—and honestly, there was just an insane amount of them. I can't even begin to guess the weight... sorry!

We went with cakes from Magnolia Bakery... we had 8 pieces total... 2 strawberry parfait, 2 peach cheese parfait, Black Forest, and 2 chocolate parfait...
3 were on the display stand "for slicing," and the other 5 were just sitting there on the side...
There were 140 people there—including the band and everyone else—and they absolutely demolished 7 of those cakes... there wasn't a single crumb left on anyone's plate 🤣
The Crew was going around to all the different tables, and people were grabbing 2 or 3 pieces at a time 🤣
I honestly have no idea how the servers didn't realize we needed an eighth cake... but hey, they were so good they'd have been perfect for breakfast the next day 😍 so I guess it worked out fine...
Everyone kept saying they usually hate wedding cake, but these were freaking phenomenal...
We're heading over to drop off the stand and settle the bill in a few days, but I don't regret a single cent—even if it was the priciest cake in NYC... we cut corners on plenty of other things, but we definitely didn't skimp on the dessert, and man, did it pay off 😍

Sam Kim12 said:😲 That's honestly way too much—no matter how good they taste, it’s simply not worth the price tag.😎

Look, I have to be real here—at my place, I’m grabbing the wedding cake and maybe a few cookies just for us at home, but for the reception itself? I actually asked my relatives and friends to each chip in with one single appetizer... by the time everyone shows up, there'll be plenty of food for the hall, but I’m definitely not sharing the leftovers from home... 😬

We’re getting the cake from Meli—it’s this tiny, family-run bakery over in Brooklyn... Honestly, before I even got married, I knew for a fact that our cake was going to be from there. 🤣

They’re a little pricier than your average shop, but man, I have never once regretted spending a single cent on anything I’ve picked up from them... mmmm...

I seriously can't wait!!! 😍

We’re cutting the dessert spread down to the absolute bare minimum—mostly because I can't stand those typical wedding cakes, I don't know what it is about them... 😕 I bake all kinds of treats and pies and stuff all the time, so it's definitely not a lack of skill...
Basically, we'll just grab a tiny amount of store-bought sweets on the way, and instead, I'm going to bug all my aunts, cousins, and sisters to whip up one signature dish each. That way, we’ll have a little bit of everything, and more importantly, they'll be the crowd-pleasers we've all had at family reunions for years! 😍

😬 Absolutely insane!!!

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Justin Morgan5 said:Nemetova Clinic is right above Zvijezda. It’s a great spot! I highly recommend Dr. Dubreta.👍

Wait, so Dr. Karmen Dubreta is practicing at Nemetova Clinic now? Honestly, I met her totally by accident during what was easily the worst stretch of my life—I was dealing with some massive health issues—and my previous OBGYN (who, let’s be real, was fine for just a yearly Pap smear, but nothing more) completely missed how serious things actually were. Dr. Dubreta was a total lifesaver... who knows which organs I’d be missing today if she hadn't sent me straight to Dr. Zupic’s hospital when she did...

Frank Campbell2 said:I was recently at the Virogen clinic getting tested for HPV, aerobes, and anaerobes. Long story short—it turns out I have HPV type 16.
Dr. Dorić over at Virogen (highly recommend her, honestly, such a lovely woman who actually takes the time to answer every single question and won't sugarcoat anything about the disease) suggested I reach out to Dr. Joško Zekan over at Metro General Hospital. Has anyone here seen him before?

I saw him once for an exam at Metro General when my own doctor wasn't available... He's fine, I guess, but if you're dealing with HPV (+ low Pap results), I think Dr. Zupic at Metro is actually better—though, fair warning, his office is way more crowded than Dr. Zekan's. From what I noticed, it's mostly older patients 😉 >>

cyanide said:Look, even if you're totally losing it, you saw what happened just fine.
And honestly? I’d tell everyone to go sign that opt-out paperwork immediately—get it done alongside me—before we all end up donating our organs by default. Because if people haven't realized it yet, this kind of policy is basically an invitation for a breeding ground of crime and doctors committing murder.
I don't even have to bring up organ trafficking. Imagine you get hit by a car, and then some doctor intentionally lets you slip away in the hospital just because you didn't sign the paper saying you *won't* donate your organs... and then they sell them to someone else.
I'm not saying every doctor is a thief, obviously, but don't act like those kinds of criminals don't exist out there.
Don't let anyone take your organs... sign that refusal right now so nobody gets their hands on your insides!

I have to admit, my mom falls for similar conspiracy theories (though she blames criminals instead of our own doctors) and she was pretty worked up when she heard about this law, but of course—since Americans can be so incredibly passive!—she didn't actually go down and sign anything to protest it...