Wow! I was blown away The child who I delivered on the roadside 39 years ago called

[gopiscrap]

Last edited Thu Sep 22, 2016, 10:38 PM - Edit history (1)

I very rarely post non-political stuff, but this blew me away.

During the summer of 1977 I was working on a music tour for a church organization. There were 6 of us traveling together. 3 Guys, 3 women. We had one day off a week and every other day off the guys got the van. This time we were at a church in Evansville IN and decided to go to Memphis on our day off with the van.

Coming back to Evansville about 2 in the morning on a highway close to Owensboro KY a car went whizzing past us. About 10 minutes later we see that same car smoldering on the side of the road. A young man 17, was waving a white towel at us and we stopped. It turned out that his 16 year old s.o's water had broken and they were on their way to the hospital. We took the young woman in our van while he stayed with the car. About 7 minutes later this young boy was born. I was 19 and the oldest of us guys was 21 and we were all very scared. At the hospital we exchanged names and addresses with this young woman and a while later after the tour, I wrote to his mom.

This young man has grown up to work in computers and was on a business trip to Seattle. Because I am easy to find (church stuff and political stuff) he looked me up and called me and we had lunch together.

May not be important to others, but it was such a wonderful thing for me! Made my day and I wanted to share!

[Angry Dragon]

1. smile

[irisblue]

2. how cool is that!

[ailsagirl]

3. Great story, gopiscrap!

Thanks for posting

[Kali]

4. very cool!

some of life's circles are pretty interesting.

[fleabiscuit]

5. Thanks for sharing.

[redwitch]

6. That is very, very cool!

Glad you shared it, great that you got to meet so many years later under less stressful circumstances!

[CurtEastPoint]

7. No, by all means...things like this ARE important to others. We are all connected.

Good for you and him. And Mom!

[AllyCat]

8. That is really cool!

[Perseus]

9. Beautiful story

He must be a good kid

[japple]

10. Awesome story, DU friend, and a wonderful memory. I'll bet you've re-lived

that incident many times, and I hope you are proud to have played a part in bringing a human life into the world. It is even nicer that he was able to find you and thank for what you did. Blessings and peace to you for being a hero when it counted.

[alfredo]

11. Great story.

[renate]

12. that's a fantastic story!

Very heart-warming, and it just goes to show how important and beautiful it is to help each other out.

I bet it was super scary for all of you, but what a wonderful happy ending!

[FuzzyRabbit]

13. Wonderful story. Thanks for posting it.

[Iggo]

14. Dude! That is so very cool!!!

Yay!

[GulfCoast66]

15. Well

Your story made my day! Thanks for sharing.

[montana_hazeleyes]

16. Awesome story!

Thank you for posting it. We need these heart warming stories. We are so more connected than most people realize.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

17. I love it when I come to DU and smile!

[yardwork]

18. I read your post to the family, got choked up.

[Solly Mack]

19. Wonderful!!

[tom_kelly]

20. Thank you for sharing that.

You made my night better.

[Akamai]

21. Wonderful indeed! What a great event you helped bring about.

I am smiling hugely just thinking about it then and now.

Great job!

[Laffy Kat]

22. That is so cool, gopiscrap! nt

[fierywoman]

23. ubuntu

beautiful: I am because you are.

[TlalocW]

24. I hope you made him pay for lunch

Y'know since he owed you one.



Just kidding. Nice story.

TlalocW

[MADem]

25. You are an uncle of the heart to that child, and a brother of the heart to that mother!

Did you ask/do you know if his parents stayed together? Talk about a rough start in life! How wonderful that you were there to smooth over the first big rough patch!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

26. You're a hero

[Liberal_in_LA]

27. cool story..amazing

[question everything]

28. Oh, what a nice story. Any idea of what happened to the parents? (nt)

[AgadorSparticus]

29. What a lovely story! Thank you for sharing!

[LittleGirl]

30. Great story

kind of depressing for me to realize that 1977 (my junior year) was 39 yrs ago. Time is quickly going too fast.

[OldRedneck]

31. Thanks for sharing this

I'm an EMT in a small rural Virginia county where everyone knows everyone else.

In the past five years, I have delivered three . . . a girl in the back of the ambulance; a girl in the bed of a pickup; a boy on the living room floor.

I see them and their mothers from time to time in the grocery, at the gas station . . . we always stop and talk and I check on their progress.

On the other hand, from time to time I see family members of folks who didn't make it when we were called to help.

[FourScore]

32. Whatever happened to the Mom and Dad? n/t

[Fla Dem]

33. Well that was so very special, both the birth and meeting up with him 40 years later.

[-Steph-]

34. Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful, touching story to wake up to this morning!

[crim son]

35. It's a wonderful thing for me too!

What a fantastic story. As major an event as the birth might have been for you, it was EVERYTHING for the young man!

[niyad]

36. thank you for sharing this beautiful story. and yes, it is important to others. we need

all the beauty and joy and sharing and caring that we can find, so thank you again.

[hamsterjill]

37. Great story!

I know the chance to meet meant a great deal to BOTH of you. How neat that he took the initiative, and how neat that you were able (and willing!) to help 39 years ago.

[Hekate]

38. What an incredible and joyous blessing!

Thanks for sharing that heartwarming story.

[Useless in FL]

39. What a heart warming story....

That brought a tear to this old lady's eye.

[Moral Compass]

40. Can't get any cooler than that

Great story

[Siwsan]

41. This is one of the loveliest stories I've read, in a long time

Thank you so much for sharing it!

[Orrex]

42. Wow! How old is he now?

Seriously, that's one of the coolest stories ever. Bravo!

[gopiscrap]

43. he turn 39 on July 19th