The Snip 2: The Checkup

May 6, 2007

It’s been two weeks since the snip, so this weekend, Mum, Dad and I flew to Brisbane for a checkup.

I’m becoming quite the frequent flyer. Dad said “you can be my wingman any time”, I thought “bullshit! You can be mine”.

I showed Doctor Loth where I had accidentally pulled my plastibell ring off in the emergency room of the Sydney Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night while Dad was holding me on his lap with my nappy off waiting for me to give him a urine sample. He said it must have been ready to come off anyway, gave my penis a clean bill of health and sent us on our way. So, with the checkup over in the blink of an eye, all, that was left to do was enjoy sunny Brisvegas for the rest of the weekend.

Linda wasn’t with us for this trip, so I had my own bedroom. I couldn’t see the problem, but Mum and Dad thought it best if I didn’t sleep in the big double-bed, and they set me up in some makeshipt contraption made of the available furniture in the apartment. When I woke the next morning, I wasn’t quite sure where I was or what was going on. Why was I barricaded by dining chairs and pillows? Who is that other baby lying next to me?

After breakfast, we went for a walk through the Brisbane Botanic Gardens and over the bridge to South Bank where Mum and Dad shouted me two wishes for Buddha’s Birthday. Mum chose “Happiness” and Dad chose “May your Wisdom grow”.

And after falling off Mum and Dad’s bed this morning, I really need those wishes to come true, and now I know why I was made to sleep at the foot of a built-in wardrobe.

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