Chapter 2240 The Banging Nighbours(Group Fuck):>Ep3
- It was normally about a 25-minute drive to the hospital from our house. For me, there were no stop lights, only "slow and look -- and go" lights. I ran every red light for miles; at 2:15 am seldom even seeing another car on the road. Traveling at two and three times the posted speed limit, I did it in 15. The doctor had called ahead after I'd woken him at 2:03 and the hospital staff were outside waiting for us at the ER door with gurney ready when I flew into the hospital entrance. By the time I parked the car and got inside, it was 2:33. They immediately directed me to the OR, and by the time I got there, I found I already had a newborn son. Officially born via an emergency C-section at 2:25, 24 minutes after I'd been awoken by Marilyn's scream for help.
- 3 months premature, David weighed just 769 grams or 1 and a half pounds in American measures. He would later be named Sean David, after his grandfathers, however we hadn't yet even discussed a possible name for him (or her as we hadn't yet known whether David was a boy or girl) as he was three months early. Later, trying to judge his size, I stretched my hands out side by side, pinkie to pinkie, thumbs out -- and the span from my thumb tip to thumb tip was greater than my son's overall length. Looking at him in the incubator, I realized that I could see light through his limbs, a faint shadow where a cartilaginous bone was developing. His skin, what there was of it, was so thin that I could see through it.
- "Come with me, I've got to go down to the pharmacy," the NICU doctor had said, perhaps an hour and a half later, after they had him stabilized. "We've got a pretty sick kid, there" he said in the elevator, thankfully indicating with his words that we were a team. Later I realized there was really no reason for him to go to the pharmacy; he had nurses and other helpers who could do that, nor was there a reason for me to go with him -- except that this was his way of getting me away from the crowd attending to my wife and son. "It's much too early to tell what he will be like, or even if he'll live. Typically, in preemie cases as early as this, we may see blindness, brain damage, physical abnormalities, and that's just to start. Later on, as he gets older, abnormalities may show up that we can't see yet such as being sterile, but it's just too early to say. Luckily with your wife having problems earlier this week we were able to provide some surfactants to help him develop, particularly his lungs, and hopefully they'll give him a good chance. Right now, we're looking at maybe an 80/20 chance."