Always On My Mind
“That thought pulsed inside Darek, relentless like a heartbeat, as he watched the neonatal doctor checking the Apgar score of his squalling little girl under the bili lights.
What if he’d been halfway to Arizona by now? He wouldn’t have made it home in time to ride to the hospital with Ivy, wouldn’t have held his wife’s hand as the doctor performed the C-section.
And what if something had happened to either of them? After a few hours of labor, Ivy’s pulse had dropped, along with the baby’s heart...beat, and the C-section happened so fast — “Darek, you look white. Breathe.” Ivy’s voice from the delivery table, where the obstetrician was stitching her up, shook him out of himself, back to the quiet concentration of the nursing staff cleaning the table, checking Ivy’s vitals, the team washing and swaddling the baby.
And then, suddenly, from the doctor: “Darek, do you want to hold her?”
Wait — But the doctor settled the flannel bundle in his arms. Tiny, old face, wrinkled, red.MoreLess
What if he’d been halfway to Arizona by now? He wouldn’t have made it home in time to ride to the hospital with Ivy, wouldn’t have held his wife’s hand as the doctor performed the C-section.
And what if something had happened to either of them? After a few hours of labor, Ivy’s pulse had dropped, along with the baby’s heart...beat, and the C-section happened so fast — “Darek, you look white. Breathe.” Ivy’s voice from the delivery table, where the obstetrician was stitching her up, shook him out of himself, back to the quiet concentration of the nursing staff cleaning the table, checking Ivy’s vitals, the team washing and swaddling the baby.
And then, suddenly, from the doctor: “Darek, do you want to hold her?”
Wait — But the doctor settled the flannel bundle in his arms. Tiny, old face, wrinkled, red.MoreLess
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