Maine in the fall. I love the crisp air that bites at you in the early morning and the leaves under feet. I was speaking with a fellow paramedic yesterday and we were relating calls that just make you cringe. As a very senior medic, hers won. Apparently she had been called to the scene of a domestic dispute where an intoxicated guy threatened to cut his unborn child out of his 24-week pregnant girlfriend. In his rage he broke a beer bottle and sliced open the girl's abdomen.
When the paramedic arrived the police had the guy in handcuffs, and the girl was taking her last breaths as she lay in a massive sea of blood. The crew quickly loaded the woman in the ambulance and rushed the 30+ miles to the hospital, doing CPR the entire way on the obviously dead woman in an effort to supply enough oxygenated blood to the tiny fetus struggling inside.
When they arrived at the hospital the surgeons completed the cesarian section and delivered the fetus, about the size of a small hand.
That fetus is a 24-year old woman today. Simply awesome.
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East meets West
Bodhidharma meets Thomas Paine.
Do you care to make any comments on that. This year is the 200th Anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine.
Wow.
I've noticed that's my comment on most of your posts. Heh. Thanks for adding some "wow" to my day.
:)
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