So, today (oct14th, 2010) is testing day. our gynecologist, dr. zuerker, drew blood in the morning, in the evening we are sitting under the phone, holding hands, waiting. five-thirty, six, six-thirty, seven. call. eleven-thousand! and nothing is as it used to be! beta HCG. 11000. two "ones" and three "zeros"! i know somebody with twins, her value was 2000, another one with a single baby, value 1000. self-evident that we take the doc's offer to have a peek really quick. after all, at that time i had a reasonable fear of eleven-tuplets (or however you call that)!

ultrasonic image shows 3 cavities. strike, thinks the engineer in me, what efficiency! i always knew i'd be famous, now i co-invented the perpetuum mobile! paolo, we split 50:50, ok?