https://www.dailykos.com/news/RandomCometLovejoy News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:29:20 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:29:20 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/25/905138/-Random-Comet-Lovejoy-160-12-2-73-9-12-10-160-R-I-P <p>You all <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/9/18/903011/-SMHRB-is-closed-today">showered me with love</a> last week and I owe you this story, my friends. It is not fiction:</p> <p>The exhausted mother-to-be had reached the end of her endurance. &nbsp;Despite training sessions in home-birth with 5 other local women who were all due within an eight-week period, sponsored by the local medical rural medical clinic, and with an intern in attendance, after more than 30 hours of labor her baby was stuck, unable to move out despite her being fully dilated. &nbsp;At 3 am on &nbsp;Monday, December 2, 1973, defeated, we made the 35 mile trip down to the nearest hospital, in Espanola, NM.</p> <p>The mother was Madeline Evans Lovejoy, B.A., M.A. (English Lit). She called herself "Mal". &nbsp;Our son, already named but still unborn, was Random Comet Lovejoy, and I was driving the '52 International truck that was our transportation that year.</p> rss@dailykos.com (claude) Community DIY homerepair RandomCometLovejoy RandomLovejoy Recommended SMHRB Teaching _905138 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:00:03 +0000