Tuesday, July 14, 2009

I've been attacked by a parasitic wasp

Well, hypothetically. Ok, I'm about to freak your freak a little bit. If this is too much for you, I apologize. My mind is warped-even more so now that I'm pregnant. You've been warned...

Ok so in case you haven't seen the documentary on the Discovery Channel, let me fill you in a little bit on the life of a parasitic wasp. The pregnant momma wasp flies around looking for a pretty little caterpillar to lay her eggs into. She injects her eggs into the caterpillar like so:



Everything is fine and dandy for a while. The caterpillar goes about it's merry way until BOOM!! The hormones being produced by the wasp babies take over the brain of the caterpilar, making it do things it doesn't necessarily want to do. It makes the caterpillar's body do all sorts of weird things it's never done before. The brain and body of the caterpillar are held hostage until the baby wasps dig their way out of the caterpillar's skin and the caterpilar either dies or returns back to normal.



I am the caterpillar people. My body is no longer my own. It's a house. I'm a house. I hardly even recognize myself sometimes. My tummy gets bigger by the day, my boobs are getting bigger, my skin has a different pain tolerance than it once did, I burp at LEAST 100 times a day, my lower back feels like it's going to break by the end of the day, I can barely stay awake until 5:00pm, I'm hungry-but when I eat I get sick..............AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!....................

Ok. That's my little freak out. I'm done. Sorry about that. I feel better now.

4 comments:

April said...

Weirdo!

Ashley said...

Hang in there girl, it'll get better, and the end product will definitely be worth it. :)

BTW... Im betting on a girl.

Brooke said...

I second April! I'm not sure which is weirder that you watch a show about that weird stuff or that you blogged about it! I still love you though!

Abby said...

Well, don't worry. I laughed so much while reading this that I had to explain myself to my friend Lana who works with me. My only way of explaining was, "Just read it. I don't even know what to say."