OK, not MINE. (That would be a bit weird. And probably not make any sense.) I mean, my first time seeing one performed. For those of you who have ever wondered what the C in C-Section stood for. It's NOT Cesarean like some of you think. It's, "crazy". Bat shit crazy.
Allow me to elaborate on this further. I generally do not have a weak stomach. I am not afraid of needles. The sight of blood doesn't make me faint. I watch them draw blood when I donate. I have watched my own surgery on my arm (mole removal) and a part of my toe nail removed from my big toe. (Sounds horrible doesn't it) I watched open heart surgery, brain surgery, hip bone replacements, and cataracts removal. I have seen actual death videos, as well as the Y-incision for autopsies. I even dissected cow eyeballs and hearts in biology class. While a bit gruesome and stomach churning, I generally handled these events surprisingly well. And recently I have seen in detail, birthing and water birthing. I don't enjoy this stuff by any means, but I could get through them and learn a lot about the human body and our inner workings. Knowledge is power!!! And it's truly fascinating stuff.
However, a C(razy)-section, is just crazy. I DID not handle that well. At all. You see, Carlie and I in our quest for knowledge in all things "child birth" began watching lamaze videos, and child birth courses. We want to be prepared for Jayden's birth day. And we thought a Cesarean Section would be another interesting subject to study. So Carlie convinces me to watch one from start to finish, and it ended up with ME almost hitting the FLOOR.
See.. what happens here, is something goes wrong during labor and the doctors feel it's necessary to perform a C-Section, and they make a very long cut across your abdomen, and being cutting and clamping layers of fat and muscle to get to the uterus. And I watched all of this. Again, I did surprisingly well during the beginning of the procedure. Then all hell broke loose...
About the moment they broke the amniotic sack, there was a horrible gushing of amniotic fluid out of the mother's stomach as if a sprinkler had ruptured in your front yard. I believe it was at this point, the surprise of this put me in to shock, and I suddenly got very nauseated and increasingly dizzy as I watched them pull the child out of this hole in the mother. I don't remember much, other than trying to refrain from throwing up, and I remember Carlie attempting to hold me up before I hit the floor. I WAS NOT doing well. After 20 minutes of laying on the ground in the fetal position, I finally got my bearings and decided I should watch something like paint drying to get the images out of my head.
I am surprised I reacted in this manner. I really did not see that coming. But I am confident I cannot see one of those ever again. Furthermore, I do not want one performed on Carlie if we can help it. And if, god forbid, they have to perform a C-Section on Carlie... I absolutely cannot see it. And I will tell the doctors, "I tried to watch it once, and unless you want to pick me up off the hard floor... i'm fine and dandy up by Carlie's head."
Crazy. Just crazy.
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Rofl... sorry sweetie! I know the C-section video was my fault. Truthfully, i've never seen one like that with the gushing out of nasty fluid... I nearly threw up too! I love you though, and I promise we'll do whatever we can to prevent me from getting a c-section, and we will make our wishes known on Friday to the doc when we see her.
I planned on telling her that unless Jayden is under serious distress, they are not going to perform a C-section on me. I don't care how much easier it will be on my dear doc, she'll get over it.
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