[silverleaf]

Personally I found out that being pregnant for 10 months, being put in medically induced labor only when my body began to enter preeclampsia, laboring for 24 hours until I began bleeding out of every pore, and then having a dramatic life threatening caesarean - was the worst of all possible worlds

except the baby and I both lived by some grace of God

Army medicine- Gotta love it - good preview of obamacare

The chief at the army hospital then didn't believe in epidurals - so they weren't offered

They didn't even give me a bullet to bite- no firearms training card in my pocket (ha ha)

[workerbee]

The chief at the army hospital then didn't believe in epidurals

I'll just bet he didn't. Perhaps someday karma will pay him back with a dentist who doesn't believe in anesthesia for root canal, or a surgeon who prefers to remove the gall bladder "naturally."