5Stars;1424906 said:
:laugh2:
When my first child was born, I was outside in the waiting room pacing around and around and around. Now, I love my baby girl, but, I was pacing around because there was a Cowboy game on, and no damn TV in the waiting room.
About 45 minutes later, a nurse came and got me to go into the delivery room to witness the birth of my girl. I went into the delivery room and, whaa-laaa...there was a TV! The first thing I did was turn the TV on (while the doctor and nurse looked at me like I was crazy)...turned to the game to see what was going on...then watched with amazement while my baby girl was born (between sneaking some peeks at the game on TV)!
Yeah, I know...that was wrong!
I have a similar story for my youngest. My wife went into labor 3 weeks early and her regular Ob-Gyn was out of town. Pinch hitting for him was Dr. Barry Gershweir. He walks into my wife's room wearing a Cardinals shirt, I was wearing a Cowboys shirt. Guess who the Cowboys were playing that day in Dallas? Yep, the birds.
He checks my wife and says he is going to go home for a while and watch the game while they monitor her. He thinks he's rubbing it in that I won't see the game. After he leaves the nurses are all telling us that he is the absolute best Ob-Gyn anywhere. That he is always very fast and very thorough.
So, he's at home like 5 minutes away, I'm in a hospital room watching the pre game. The nurse comes in to check my wife. BTW, she has very rough pregnancies, so they are being extra cautious. No sooner does the nurse start to check than my wife hemorrhages. I turned to a student nurse and
told her to get me a gown. She asks why and I said, because they're going to have to do a c-section right now. She didn't believe me.
Nurse gets off the phone with Dr. G., turns around and says, let's go right now. So I gown up and they have my wife in the OR, with a screen so she can't see her tummy area. I am standing up and can see it all. The nurse says I can sit down if I need to. My wife, says, he won't have to.
Dr. G. walks in, takes one look and says, "ladies and gentlemen, we're in a hurry." Turns out the hemorrhage was the placenta "abrupting." That is where the baby gets oxygen to live, basically hers disintegrated. From first incision to sown up and baby to the incubator was 15 minutes.
Dr. G. was taking off his gloves as he turned to me and said, "enjoy the game."
I missed the kickoff and first series. Named the baby at halftime. Called the people we needed to during the commericials. My wife, slept.
