So you know how I have to go to the hospital for testing twice a week, right? I get to lie in bed with monitors attached to my belly to measure fetal heart rate and my contractions and with a blood pressure reader on my arm. A machine I’m attached to prints out the fetal cardiogram.
Suddenly, the machine started making the kind of scary beeping noises and flashes that on TV shows are usually followed by “Code blue! Code blue! The patient is flat-lining!” The printout from the machine stopped creating a cardiogram and, instead, spelled out in big letters:
The End
Final
Ende
Finale
It took me a few minutes to realize that the machine was not announcing the end of me but, rather, the end of the paper roll it used to create the cardiogram.
“Wow, you had this strange spike in blood pressure as you were lying here,” the nurse commented later. “I wonder what could have caused it.”
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This is awesome 😀
We have a siren at work that announces lunch breaks and such. It sounds like a fucking air raid alarm. First time you hear this, you might actually think that the russians are coming.
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Omg this scared me, and I have no stake in any of this! Glad you and Eric are ok!!
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to stress everybody out! 🙂
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Your life, thankfully, is not a surrealist horror film. 😛
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What’s really awful is when you are in labor and (if they have to) attach the wire that screws into the baby’s head to monitor things and suddenly everything goes quiet. It usually means that the wire has come out of the head, not that there is anything wrong with the baby, but it can be unnerving!
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OK, thank you, it’s good to be forewarned!
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off topic. CNN is showing Michelle Knight in Courtroom in Cleveland. She is to testify in Monster castro’s ordeal.
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The monster used to go church every sunday and in coming back he abused the 3 girls. What a monster. He deserves the death penalty in front of everybody. What ahateful, disgusting monster !.
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I especially dig it how some people say we need to hear his side of the story. Like there can be a side to such a monster’s story that is worth hearing.
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“I especially dig it how some people say we need to hear his side of the story.”
Some people say even worse… Amanda Berry, one of his victims, went to a concert last week with some friends and family and looked like she was having a good time. So some idiots online began to comment on how she doesn’t look like a “real victim.”
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It’s incredible that such jerkwads even exist. 😦 😦
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Exactly. And everybody in court is making mistakes by calling him Mister Castro. He is no Mister. He is Monster castro, a disgusting fat, ugly monster. He says, he is no Moster, he is sick. OK well. He is the most digusting fattest, ugliest sickest Monster.
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I hope nobody buys this excuse that he is sick. Sick people go to doctors. He chose to victimize innocent people.
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I am a horrible person because this made me laugh and laugh and laugh some more. Especially the nurse’s comment at the end. Thank you for sharing, and glad everybody is ok. 🙂
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No, yours is the reaction I was trying to elicit. This is supposed to be a funny story. I find that fellow autistics are the best at appreciating my humor. 🙂
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In that case, I will not be ashamed of the tears in my eyes from laughing. Thank you for that! 🙂
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Did you clarify to the nurse the likely reason why your blood pressure had spiked?
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Yes, of course. 🙂 🙂
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