Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Myracle

Q100 Atlanta is interviewing that woman in Florida who crashed her car and gave birth on her own earlier this week. If you haven't heard the story, she was driving to the hospital and had a huge contraction. As a result, she crashed the car in a canal, breaking her leg.

So there she was, hanging out of the car for 2 and a half hours waiting for someone, anyone, to find her. As she was hanging out of the car, not able to crawl back in or out, the baby drops out on to the floor. She couldn't touch her baby until she hit the hospital, and all she could do for her child was swat mosquitos away and "kick her gently" with her broken leg when she stopped crying.

The truly crazy part of this whole thing came when the EMTs found her and called her father. Her dad shows up, sees she's ok, and starts to leave to meet her at the hospital. That's when the EMT goes, "Don't you want to hold your granddaughter?" HIS WHAT?

According to the woman, she kept meaning to tell her family (she's 21, but still lives at home), but she kept putting it off. She was kind of evasive about what her plan was when she was discharged from the hospital, but thanks to the fates, her secret baby is a national news story. Lovely....

Listening to her, she definitely sounded sort of spacey (but that could have been the meds), but come on. How do you have a pregnancy and a baby and "forget" to tell people about it? She was heading to the hospital, so it wasn't like she was planning on doing something drastic, but a baby is not a kitten that you find on the side of the road and take home to mom!! Freakin insane...

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