A4 - Sunday, June 3, 1984 - North Shore News

Strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

Father knows best

consumed over the years. The basic prayer 1s the usual one: Dear Lord, gimme a break and I’ll never do anything wrong again. Honest!

Mere minutes after we entered the room, there was a faint bleat. | heard someone say, ‘It’s a girl.’ Then they held up this purple mucous-

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Lae eyebrow-raising and lower- After a swift inspection of i

fellow. Even the red tape folks at their little ing. toes and fingers and a bit of 8 a

cubbyholes were competent. There was a green sheet tapping and poking, said pur- 8 t

The conditions weren't specialist on duty knew what between us and the region ple alien was wrapped in a J a |

ideal. My wife was more than — the scene was. Sull, it feltodd below my _ wife’s neck. blanket and handed to meto 4 ; i

two weeks overdue. By the — breaking into a hospital, Neither one of had much of — hold up for my wife to see. 4 INCLUDES 1

time the doctor finally decid- as it were, my wife preten- an urge to look over or And for a moment there, as SHAMPOO & }!

ed that she ought to be induc- the three of us went en rap- CONDITIONING 1

ed, along weekend had rolled [EEE = port for the first time, the WITH a

around. meaning of life was as clear THIS AD 1

There was only one as the clearest Clear Light. Slama” |

Operating room functioning. But it was all very non- riers ,

Something to do with govern- ce fi verbal. Words do pale. A bit

ment cutbacks courtesy of The irst 90 years are the

Mr. Bennett et all. I guess the idea is to stack the patients

ly, automatically and ir- up hke jetliners around a revocably, I loved this _ crowded terminal. The nurse strange, splotchy creature. THE NATURAL PERM al the front desk reminded From now on, unul | die,

me more of an atr traffic con- troller than Nightingale.

In fact, the rules about ad- mission were so. inflexible that we had to he about my wife being in labor in order to

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The inducing process

under. The silence was nearly total except for the muffled mutterings of the doctors and nurses and the tinkle of in- struments being laid on trays,

of a shock of fear went through me. Because instant-

anything that hurts her will hurt me.

Parenthood is vulnerability to the nth degree. What a chance we take! You have to be a bit crazy, I guess.

But then, who said human

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make it past the guards didn’t work, so we agreed to a bit as tf a tea party was be- beings were sane? It would be — j "ll .

downstairs to the sanctity of a Caesarian. I must say, it ing held by deaf mutes. a very dull little planet

the maternity ward. was all very civilized. I was They say there are no indeed. NATURAL $28 The very problem was that allowed into the operating atheists in the trenches. I'll Welcome, daughter.

she WASN’T in labor, but

that was too subtle for the people at admission. On doc-

room to hold my wife’s hand and engage in a lot of intense

tell you, there aren’t any in the birthing chamber either.

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