Stick Crisis!

I have been buying the test sticks for my fertility montior off eBay. It saves about $15 per box so it's been worth it. Last time I needed a box, my usual supplier didn't have any so I bought from someone with a lot of good feedback. The box arrived, I put it in the bathroom until it was time to use it.

Well, I did NOT expect this morning to be that time. Usually it doesn't ask for a stick until a couple of days from now so I was stunned, and mid-pee when it demanded to be fed.

CRAP! SHIT! Quick, thrash around and try to open the box without peeing any more. Fast! Ack! A drop leaked out. Was that the critical drop that would have helped our very expensive sperm meet my somewhat elusive eggs? Finally get the box open, rip open the stick and discover that they're expired! EXPIRED! Technically, they don't expire until 7/05 but let me tell you right now, those sticks do not know the difference between 6/15/05 and 7/05. In their little (very expensive) minds, it's already well into July and their productive time on this earth is over.

Lucky for me, part of any trip to any store that has even a teeny drug store component now includes checking out their fertility supplies so I knew that our local (ghetto fabulous, includes a woman who lives in the parking lot) Walgreen's had a box. Even luckier for me, that box was still in stock and doesn't expire until 3/06, at which time we will hopefully be preparing to birth the child we're about to try and conceive, or be very close to doing so.