The Anesthesiologist: A Short Story

I remember it as if it happened yesterday. It was one early September day I had got up and got ready for my last doctor appointment before I became a mother. My mother and I had arrived at the doctor's office to only find out that I was needing a sonogram. After the sonogram the doctor came in to tell me that I was low on amniotic fluid and I need to go straight to the hospital, because I was going into labor. At that moment I didn't know whether to be excited or nervous, because in that very next day I would become a mother. After arriving at the hospital a nurse came in and Informed me within the next hour I would be getting an Epidural, at that moment I was nervous about getting a needle stuck in my back. once Anesthesiologist came in to give me the Epidural I was getting more and more …show more content…
After the numbing medicine kicked in the doctor came in to break my water then the waiting game began. After being in labor for fourteen hours, the doctor came in and told me that my baby was not trying to come down the birth canal, therefore I would have to get a caesarean section. Once those words left his mouth I began to panic and cry even though my mother was beside me I still didn't want to be cut open, so after waiting about an hour the nurses wheeled me down the surgery room to begin the procedure. I had calmed down, knowing that in the next twenty minutes my child would be brought into this world. As the doctors and nurses began caesarean I started to doze off from the medicine. At 1:47 am on September 6,2007 weighting 8pounds 5 ounces my beautiful daughter Za'Kari Nashae Savage was born .As I heard her cry, I began to cry tears of joy knowing that I created such a beautiful life and i would be her provider role model and more, at that moment I knew this will be the most memorable moment in my life becoming a