by wednesday 18 Replies latest watchtower medical
"She took three small glasses of hard liquor and, using a kitchen knife,
sliced her abdomen in three attempts..
Well, MY "three small glasses" wouldn't be shots, I can safely say that. Of course, when drinking water...small is 8 ounces?
Heroic measures by this mother. Liquor or not.
Kudos to her.
waiting
WOW! Way to go Mom!
When the child misbehaves, all she has to do is pull out this article and show the child what she had to do to bring itinto this world! I know it would have made me stop and listen...
I would like to see this story documented in the OB/GYN medical journals. (The Green or Gray Journals).
Having assisted on many C/Sections, this is not a simple procedure and cannot be sewn up with cotton thread by a nurse! There are too many vital organs that can be damaged if one doesn't know live anatomy. Bladder, bowel, etc.
Joy *of the skeptical class
Skepticism Joy? C'mon, admit it. Your'e afraid, you've been downsized, in-sourced, made redundant. In this modern age when even peasants can get ahold of hard liquer and fine cutlery and watch the surgery channel, midwives are a relic of a bygone era!
I'm still having a problem with "three SMALL glasses of liquor." Damn, I'd need the bottle to even THINK of doing that!
Nina
I find it amazing but not to the point I doubt its credibility. It may be a hoax but I don't disbelieve it on it's face. Caesarians had been performed for a very long time before we got modern medicine. Since ancient times at least. It's incredibly dangerous of course, but desperate situations call for desperate measures. People who live in situations like the one described are not used to having access to medical assistance we take for granted. She's probably in the minority because she lived but I don't find it unbelievable.
I found a website on the history of c-sections.
yes really astonishing but not unbelieable. Ang. link disscusses a bit about c-sections, and how the husbands in past in rual areas had been known to perform c-scetions on their wives to save the life of baby and/or mother. Also it says it is done with animals too. It would really be hard to imagine ourselves in her life, probably no education, dirt poor, and living far from a hospital. Even the poorest in america /England have a better lot in life.
That took incredible courage .Also, most likley she may have done it not just to save the baby , but to save her own life.
btw, i have a friend who would never go to the hospital, and often sewed up her self or husband instead of going in to get stiches. Most likely the nurse just sewed the outer top of the skin closed so it would not be exposed to everything and then i'm they fixed her up at the hospital.. I imagine nurses and other medical people in areas like that have to do many things out of their general job description. If the nearest hospital is 8 hurs, u would have to do somehting or she could bleed to death.
This blew me away when I first read it (not here). I've spent some time in 3rd world countries including Mexico and was in awe of how this woman, without any medical training, was able to replicate a procedure that our physcians charge obscene amounts of money to perform.
very strange story! but it seems to be all over the world news the past couple of days....i would think if it was false it would have been found out by now. maybe she just got lucky with not killing herself or the kid while doing this. i definatlely couldnt have done it on just a few shots of liquor!
