I have a funny story.
I've been in the hospital. Just a little (or actually, as the ER doc said, rather large) ovarian cyst issue that required some attention. One surgery and 2 1/2 days of hospital stay later, and all is well (thanks to the above mentioned percaset).
So, while I was in the lockup, everyone pitched in beautifully to take care of the girls. They were quite freaked out at first. It's never fun to wake up to a note from Mom saying she's at the hospital. My Dad, bless his big humongous heart, came over in the middle of the night and took over for us. That night at dinner he asked the girls if they had any questions about what was going on with mom. Emma said that she didn't really understand, so he commenced his highly informative discourse on the female reproductive system and all it entails (thank heavens for google searches). This is how it went...
Side note: My father is and has always been terrified of having the sex talk (or anything that remotely resembles a sex talk) with any of his children. He breaks into a sweat if he even sees a tampon. My sex talk consisted of barbie and ken discussing how they wouldn't kiss until they got married. And that was when I was 20.
Back to the dinner...
Emma: I don't really understand what's going on with mom
Fred: Well Emma, every girl has something in her body called ovaries.
They are very important. Mommy had a big sore on her ovary that the doctors have to
go in and remove.
*as Fred said when he told me and Wade the story "I could have stopped there, Meg. I could have stopped. But...I didn't. And now the two of you have to clean up my mess. Sorry."
Fred: The ovaries are actually the part of a woman's body that make eggs. That's why they're
important. When a woman's body is ready to have a baby, her ovary releases an egg and
it travels through the fallopian tube into the uterus where it gets fertilized and grows
into a baby.
*at this point, as Fred says, he knew he had gotten in a little bit over his head. That was confirmed when Emma looked at him with a very confused and slightly disgusted face and said...
"THEY FERTILIZE WOMEN!!!!!"
Hence the mess we now have to clean up.
