Quote Originally Posted by Glacier
... Her hubby was trying not to faint, so he was pretty much useless! Turned out he was pretty much useless at just about everything, but we didn't know that at the time!
yeah, but he did give you half the genetic material for a niece that you are crazy about as i recall. so some small early value as he peaked early

as for me, i never wanted kids, so i don't have any, however.....
many many years ago as a bottom of the rung xray tech, working midnights at my hospital, i had to do a film called a pelvimetry on a poor woman who was in hour 37 of labor. this was when ultrasound wasn't available 24/7. i got the 2 films and was running them in the darkroom when i heard the tenor of her screams change. i ran back into the xray room to find her student nurse trying to pull her back on to the stretcher screaming....the babys' head is here... from somewhere i got the strength to pull the student and patient over onto the cart, threw the door open and pushed the cart onto the waiting elevator ( i had locked it open when the patient came down from the floor) and hit the button. the doors closed and when they opened again all of us were in front of a small group of nurses and residents who jumped to the job at hand. i went back downstairs to continue my shaking. that night gave me a whole lotta resolve to never do anything like that again and to get off midnights as soon as possible.