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Jul. 31st, 2003 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyFor you out-of-town friends who might not have heard about this:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/212/nation/Refusing_help_woman_gives_birth_aboard_T+.shtml
Several notes:
a) That's MY train! I might have been on that!
b) I can see people I know doing this. It's an extreme case, but this whole "refusing to ask for help under any circumstances" stubbornness....it's very Maine, for one thing. I had a grandfather who dug a bullet out of his own leg rather than go to the doctor, and he was proud of it until the end of his days.
He was proud of his wooden leg, too.
c) Why does the fact that she grabbed the placenta off the floor and tossed it in her shoulder bag bug me so much? Is it that I know how hard it is to clean out the inside of one of those? Or that I'm just so curious what she would eventually have done with it?
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/212/nation/Refusing_help_woman_gives_birth_aboard_T+.shtml
Several notes:
a) That's MY train! I might have been on that!
b) I can see people I know doing this. It's an extreme case, but this whole "refusing to ask for help under any circumstances" stubbornness....it's very Maine, for one thing. I had a grandfather who dug a bullet out of his own leg rather than go to the doctor, and he was proud of it until the end of his days.
He was proud of his wooden leg, too.
c) Why does the fact that she grabbed the placenta off the floor and tossed it in her shoulder bag bug me so much? Is it that I know how hard it is to clean out the inside of one of those? Or that I'm just so curious what she would eventually have done with it?
