Change Can Really Suck

I'm really missing my friends lately. And today I found out that my friend Danielle moved to Minnesota. I knew that she got a great job there as a program director for sex offenders and substance abusers in the prison system and that she was going to move, I just thought that she was moving in August. But they wanted her there sooner so she has already moved up there. I am very happy for her and the great career move but I am selfish too and I miss her that she is not around here anymore. Danielle and I met while I was doing my post-doc and she was doing her pre-doc internship. We quickly became friends and maintained our friendship after we finished up our positions and left that hospital. We were both loaded up with tons of responsibilities while at the hospital together and trying so hard to survive our training and get on with the rest of our lives so we became such good friends. I remember how we'd get cheap lunches at Jalapenos buffet about once a week and while there one day in November of 2007 I got a headache and suddenly felt nauseous. I had told Danielle that Tom and I had started to try to get pregnant before that lunch and she said to me "oh, you might be feeling sick because you're pregnant" and I did not believe her! I remember saying to her that we had only tried once and I was old, I couldn't be pregnant yet. So she argued with me and insisted that I could be and wanted to know if I'd missed my period yet. Well, she got me thinking about that, which I had not been serious about due to the aformention reasons. So I took out my appointment book and checked and sure enough, I was supposed to get my period that day and had not yet! Well, that got me convinced that I could have been pregnant so I bought a pregnancy test and took it and had the faintest pink line. It turned out that I was pregnant and it was my good friend Danielle who got me to think of that possibility that early on! If not for her I probably would not have tested for about a week but I got the very early on heads up thanks to Danielle. And I don't know if I would have survived my post-doc due to all the bs politics at that hospital if Danielle had not been there and been such a good friend to me. I owe you for that my friend, and because of you I knew very quickly that I was going to become a mommy.

Danielle, I miss you so much already! I am happy for you and your great new job but I hate it that you have moved so far away! I really, really, really hope we keep in touch. I've loved having you as a friend and I would really hate to lost that.