I'd like to thank kenjisato, again, for great editing and my dining friends for input. If you find any mistakes, it's probably something I did after editing.
Active sexual activity only involves characters over the age of eighteen. Any similarities to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and my bank account.
Do You Remember Us
?
This is the story of Janice Michelle Thompson (née Taylor),
Jan
, and me, David Michael Thompson,
Dave
.
We'd been married for two years. We have known each other since childhood, grade school, middle school, high school, and college. We were best friends who became boyfriend and girlfriend, then engaged, and married within a year of graduating college. We were each other's first kiss, first date, first intimate touch and we lost our virginities to each other. We
are
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson.
Janice is a petite, medium blonde-haired beauty, who, at times, has taken my breath away without even trying!
We both were teachers, I teach math (two classes) and industrial arts,
aka shop
(three classes); Janice teaches English and social studies at the same middle school. One thing I like about teaching industrial arts is, aside from tests, I never have to grade papers at home!
We were having a wonderful fall day, the sixth of October to be exact. Janice was expecting our first child. We were told that walking, especially near the projected birth date and time, was beneficial. Janice was ready for delivery. She kept saying, "I feel I'm '
ten'
months pregnant! I'm ready to POP." Janice had just started her maternity leave.
So here we were, walking in the park. It was a very popular place-- families, couples, skaters, skateboarders, little kids on tricycles, kids on bikes, kids on bikes with training wheels, joggers, dogs being walked, a playground full of kids.
As we came up to a bench, Janice asked, while putting her hand on her baby bump, "Honey, can we sit down?"
"Sure, babe."
When we were about five feet away from the bench, we heard, "
BILLY
,
WATCH OUT!
" just as a little boy, about four or five, ran into us on his training wheeled bike. We both fell, and before I could protect her, Janice's head hit the bench. As I got up to help her, I could tell she was out cold. I had blood on my hands from a nasty cut just above her hairline. I immediately got my cell out and called 9-1-1.
The police, EMTs and an ambulance arrived within minutes. As I got into the ambulance, I was able to tell the police officer, "It was an accident..."
As the door closed, I heard the little boy, not just crying but bawling. He must have been scared to death.
It took only five minutes to reach the level-one trauma hospital.
When the ambulance's doors opened and Janice was taken out, a nurse 'latched' onto me, holding some kind of a electric clipboard (back then they were call a personal digital assistant, PDA, now they use iPads or electronic tablet), and started to ask: "How did it happen? How far along is she?" As well as her age, her medical history, "Are you next of kin?" "Medications?", etc, etc. "Please wait here."
I know that was not how they were asked in order, but that is how I remember it.
'What here' hell, my
pregnant
wife was just wheeled into the ER! Needless to say I was ready to lose it!
In minutes, the doctor came in and told me they would have to do a cesarean for the safety of both my wife and child-- I immediately signed the papers.
The doctors thought when Janice had asked me to help her sit down in the park, that was when she had her first labor pain.
I called our parents, Janice's sister Jessica, my sister Linda, and then I sat down to start the worrying of a husband and a new father.
Within an hour of hitting her head Janice and I were parents. I was told that our baby boy was very,
very
,
VERY
healthy
!
A doctor came out to tell me, "Janice is still out of it, in recovery, but the nurses have started your little boy nursing; as soon as he is full, we will repair the bleeding in your wife's head. Since it is a new injury, we can fix it before it becomes major and causes further damage."
A smiling nurse, with Winnie the Pooh scrubs on, said, "If you would like to do skin-to-skin with your son while you wait for your wife's procedure, you can come with me.
"We usually don't do it this early with dad, but since your wife will be unavailable for a little while, you might as well start being a dad," she said, with a big smile.
I took our little boy, without my shirt, and I held our little Michael John Thompson,
Mikey
, to my bare chest. I felt a surge of calm moving through my chest, as Mikey snuggled to me. I had tears in my eyes, thinking that this little bundle of joy was the product of Jan's and my love. After forty-five minutes, 'Nurse Winnie the Pooh' came back and told me it was time for a break... "Dads tend to be warmer than moms, so their time is shorter," she said.
Then I could go back to worrying about my Jan. I went to the waiting room and there was the whole family. Everyone was quietly waiting for me to give a medical update. "Mikey is a very,
very
,
VERY
healthy
baby! They are doing a surgical repair on Janice. It seems that she got a good crack on the head, some blood vessels were damaged, but the doctor told me it would be routine."
I was now joined by family for the wait that no husband or father wanted to have.
Just then a woman came in holding a scared little boy's hand. She looked familiar. It was Billy's mom, Sara Rodgers, and she was crying.
Sara Rodgers was a single mom, a widow. She had lost Billy's dad while he was stationed in the Middle East. She recognized me and came up to me and gave me a hug crying on my shoulder. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, Billy is so sorry, also."
I patted her on her back and said, "It was just an accident, our Mikey is fine, and my wife should be in recovery soon." I picked up Billy and told him Janice would be better soon.
My mother hugged both Sara and Billy, helping the poor, worried, sad mother to know that we held no animosity.
Mom, from then on, kept in contact with Sara and became friends with her; in fact, we all became friends with both Sara and Billy. We even took part in her wedding to a fantastic man about five years later. Since her father had passed away right after Billy was born, my dad volunteered to stand in for him as father of the bride, I was one of the groomsmen, AND Janice was matron of honor!
Back to the procedure, you are a mommy.
After the procedure, hell, I was calling it an operation; after recovery time, they took Mikey to Janice so she could breastfeed him, but she had a strange look on her face.
Janice asked, "Who is this?"
The nurse said, "This is your son, Mikey."
"Really?"
The nurse said, "Yes, he is."
"Wow."
1989?
Just then, the neurologist walked in. "Hello there, Momma. Oh, he is a cutie."
With a clinical tone, the neurologist continued, "I need to ask you some questions."
"Okay," Janice replied, with her patented smile.
"Okay, let's see. What is the correct spelling of your name?"
"J-A-N-I-C-E...T-A-Y-L-O-R."
"Okay, where do you live?"
"334 Scotts Lane." (That was her childhood home address.)