I think I'll start a 'hospital thread' when I get back.
Here's one; Wife wants to have her baby with as little pain medicine as possible- but leaving it her option, of course. So she requests only a portion of the meds offered. A couple tylenol number 3's, if I recall correctly. Anyway, 40 minutes later- No Way, she needs help. Only NO Help is Coming!! The Doctor, you see, is busy elsewhere, and can't approve of any pain medicines. They can't give her any more of WHAT WAS ALREADY ordered because they, 'must observe the effects of the medicine she took first."
That was only a small portion of what was offerred, but now they must 'observe' because it's the DREADED opiate derivative.
"I can tell you what you're observing," I'm pissed, "She's in Pain."
So my wife goes through natural childbirth. I'm not kidding.
Doctor arrives in the last 60 seconds and catches baby as he's coming out. 5000 bucks richer, the Doc, not the Baby.
And that, is actually a good doctor.
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Thank you again for your kind wishes. Wednesday afternood is knife day.
This morning it is going to snow, then melt a little later. Very bad conditions. So we're leaving at about 8 am. That'll give us 4 and a half hours to travel 196 miles.
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