2 Red Lines

This just cannot be true!  I am sure we read the instructions wrong.  According to the result, she is pregnant.  

Shock!!!! Happy!!!! Shock!!!! Happy!!!!   

We hugs each other.  This is the best thing that could happen. The excitement is so great, that we both have a sense of calmness like a sheet of glass.  Ingrid is pregnant?  Ok, lets get back to reality. The test kit was just 1.5OR (3 Euros). It is cheap, hence it must be wrong.  Irrespective of the fact,  that it is made by one of the best  known Candian Medical Product Manufacturer.  Lets, read the instructions again.  And I do! And again.  

1 Red Line   : Negative  

2 Red Lines: Positive 

  

It is 2 red lines I see on the result.  Bold as ever, screaming out positive.  No! I don’t think so. My thoughts are that of  all the million test-kits they manufactured, this particular kit, which we bought at the pharmacy in Muscat, Oman must be that one defective kit. So it might be wrong.  Or, maybe they printed the instructions wrong,   which actually reads the other way.  2 Red lines must be negative and 1 Red line is positive.  

In my head, these are not just possibilities.  Anything is possible these days.   This is driving my head in.  Now, what do we do?

Yes, we decide to call Ingrid’s parents. And they probably would agree with me, and tell me that I must not get carried away by these off the shelf test-kits.  We inform them that we do not want to get all excited, until we have proper hospital reports!    Ingird's mothers reply is not at all reassuring to my theory or my intelligence.  With her insight and experience, she brushes off the hospital test and says, these results are always right.  

Hmm.  Now, I want to bury my head in the sand.  Oh!  I know. Let me get on line and make 3 checks.  

1. How the test is actually carried out?

2. How reliable the manufacturer of the test kit is?

3. If the manufacturer has a law-suits filed against them on account of wrong results on Home Pregnancy Test Kits? 

  

To my first question, I figured out how it works.  Hate to admit it, but it is a pretty straightforward test, and the chance of it going wrong is pretty low.  The test strip contains monoclonal antibodies that detect minute traces of HCG (Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin)  which is produced during the development of the embryo. Plain and simple.  Does not get produced in the body for anything else! Still I need to have all answers cleared!

 My second question: The manufacturer is one of the best in Canada, and is even approved by most medical bodies around the civilized world.  so...

Third question:  There are no law-suits against the company, no hate-forums on the web and they seem a decent company.   

So now what?

Two Red Lines!  I photograph the test-kit with the red lines.  Just so that – as I suspect – if I am right, then maybe photographic evidence can be shown in a court to sue the company for falsely leading us.