After the scare in the first trimester my Mommy was feeling good and was enjoying her pregnancy. But that didn’t last for very long, another scare was in the near future.
In her fifth month of her pregnancy my Mommy experienced severe pelvic pain. I can’t imagine what was going through her mind. Her doctor was called and he instructed Mom and Dad to meet him at the hospital. At the hospital after doing some medical testing it was determined that my Mommy had a bad case of appendicitis.
Well you can imagine back then in the 1950’s early 1960’s this is a bad situation. I can’t fathom what my father & mother felt at this time. It was time once again to sign my life away. Once again my Mommy’s doctor came to my rescue. He remembered in a medical journal that there was a new surgical procedure where they only make a small incision in the abdomen and use new small surgical instruments to remove the infected appendix.
Every one agreed to try this new experimental surgical procedure on my Mommy. But it was known to all, that my father’s explicit instructions was if anything went wrong during the surgery that they had to do everything to save my mother & end the pregnancy along with me. I know my father was tormented that he had to once again sign my life away after all the heartache they been through just to have a baby. I can also imagine how scared my mommy was.
The surgery went well and they were able to successfully remove the infected appendix saving us both. I was spared once again. I met death face to face for the second time and won. All this & I was still in my Mommy’s womb, hopefully to see the light of day some time in the near future. Mommy and Daddy went home bewildered and happy that their baby was coming home with them once again.
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