Peanut butter crackers and TV dinners

We raced into the cold sterility and blinking-bright lights of the OR, bumping into the steel bedframe of the bed in our haste to deliver this baby as quick as possible. Soon the beep-beep of mom’s heartbeat on the anesthetist’s machine was countered by the low, slow bum-bum-bum on the ultrasound, sounds of a baby’s heart in distress. Our voices were quiet, but urgent. “FHT’s 80s, catheter in, prep done, Dr. Simon is on his way, right?” Hurry, hurry, hurry was the one constant running through our minds as the OR team quickly went about this business of preparing for […]