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Things seem to be going very well with Greg’s move to Maryland. All his belongings arrived o.k. about a week after he got there. He has secured a manager’s job with Taco Bell in Frederick where he is living and will be making about $10,000 more salary than he did here – with benefits. Of course the cost of living is higher there than here, but it’s still good for someone who doesn’t have a high school diploma.

He’s been looking for an apartment – one that must allow dogs – to no avail. Seems every place he has contacted has none available, so he’s still got that loose end to tie up.

He is still negotiating with Carmen what to do about the baby situation. There is talk of her going there for a visit in June. We’ll see. I called her last night and she said she was doing well except for the nausea and fatigue – both normal for the first trimester.

O.k., I just talked to the mother of my possible future grandchild and she told me that the baby is in her uterus, just not where the doctor said it should be placed. More bloodwork was taken to today, the results of which will come back on Monday or Tuesday. If hormone levels are significantly higher than when the first tests were done, things will be “looking good”. If not, we’ll see what the next step is.

So now a few more days of waiting.

Greg made it to his destination early today. Whew! He is resting today and already has a job interview for next Tuesday.

He also found out today that the mother of his baby went to the doctor again today who was not optimistic about the pregnancy – no heartbeat (yet) and suspicion that it might be an ectopic pregnancy. I called her and left a message for her to get back to me. I anxiously await.

Yesterday Greg made it to Columbia, Missouri – about an hour east of St. Louis. He drove about 11 hours. Everything went fine.

Today he drove from there to Columbus, Ohio – about a 7 hour drive. He is now only about 5 hours away from his destination of Frederick, Maryland. His dog, Sokrateez is doing just fine.

Now for the bombshell.

Greg told me yesterday before he left for his travelling for the day that he had just found out that he is going to be a father.

(music playing comes to a screeching halt – like a record scratching).

Greg decided, for reasons that I still cannot understand, about 6 months ago, to move to Maryland – where he did a lot of his younger growing up. Up until he left, he maintained a relationship with his girlfriend and they both were prepared for this life change of him moving (I still don’t understand, but didn’t make a big deal out of this. I think they were the cutest couple).

So now Greg is faced with being a father and is working out with the mother what they will do. The mother (whom I adore) will have the child. How they raise the child is yet to be determined. The mother took over my son’s manager job at the fast food restaurant where she (and where Greg did) work. So she has insurance.

She is only (gasp!) 18.

And now I’m going to be (another gasp!) a grandmother.

To be continued….

So Greg ended up coming back home two more times today because the pet groomer took longer than he thought. But he finally left the valley around 1:30pm. It’s now about 6:10pm so I’m assuming he’s somewhere close to Laramie Wyoming.

I forgot to mention in my last post that this trip is a really big deal for Greg. No, I mean really BIG. Greg suffers not only from the effects of Tourette’s Syndrome, but also from the effects of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder AND from Anxiety of the Panic Disorder kind.

This is a huge step. Which adds to my worries even more than normal.