New Rating: TV-NFJ "Not For Jami"
I should know better than to ever watch anything on any of the Discovery Channels, but sadly I don't. These are the people that got me all into a show about these adorable little lemurs, then showed one get killed - AAAHHHHH!!! I cried for an hour. Jerks.
Yesterday, getting ready for bed, I'm flipping channels and I find the Discovery Channel. It's in a commercial break, but according to the menu description, it's the story of a child who is 2 and only weighs 8lbs; I figure that sounds good. The show comes back and after a few minutes, it's apparent that this is NOT about a little girl. It's this woman in Morocco (Zara) who is in her 70s who had an eptopic pregnancy in 1955, but they didn't know that's what had happened - the fetus grew to term in her abdominal cavity and then died and was calcified. It's a horrible story, which I couldn't stop watching, because they also mixed in a story of a woman in England who was having the same kind of pregnancy, but since it was 2003, they diagnosed it and tried to save her and the baby. So I had to keep watching.
Zara was saved by an extremely long, complex surgery during which they removed a 7lb+ "stone baby"!! Horrifying! I was in tears. I watched it like this: quick peek "AHHHHH!" Announcer says "and now the head is visible..." quick peek "AHHHHH!" Announcer says: "The calcified wall is attached to her bladder" I'm smart enough not to look, this time . Doctor performing the surgery says "The fetus's hand is tangled in the intestines." quick peek "AHHHHH!" The only good that came of this was that she was no longer in pain, all the people who didn't believe her in the 50's when she kept telling them she was pregnant and they kept telling her she wasn't - that it was a tumor will know she was right, and she finally got to have a memorial service for and mourn the child she knew she'd been carrying. Still I could have lived without seeing the whole thing. Remained blissfully unaware that that was even possible.
The English woman and her baby lived and are fine.
I need to put some sort of Parental Jami Lock on that channel. I also saw another horrific show afterward with kids losing limbs. Not good.
3 Comments:
At 10:27 PM, Unknown said…
Seriously, what was the name and do you think it's re-airing? Sounds really engrossing.
At 10:41 AM, Jami said…
The show was apparently called "Pregnant for 46 Years" http://health.discovery.com/tvlistings/episode.jsp?episode=0&cpi=114743&gid=0&channel=DHC and will air on Aug 13th at 5pm ET/PT according to their website at this time.
At 11:02 AM, Liz said…
There's a list of things I can't watch, too. There's news stories I have to turn off if I happen to be watching TV and the news comes on. I'm a big pile of mush when it comes to moms, kids, pregnancy, babies...
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