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Title: The Entwistles Post by Marianne on Sep 2nd, 2003, 10:22pm (sorry if this is a little tragic...It's set in about 1962, in Swizerland. Mary Helena Maynard had married Reg Entwistle only just a year ago, at the time our story opens she is six months pregnant with twins. The news of her pregancy brought great joy to all that knew her, but modern scans brought an element of tradgedy to the celebrations. It had been confirmed that len was carrying conjoined twins, more commonly known as siamese twins, they were joined at the abdomen possibly by vital organ. Today was the day Len was going to the San so that she could be monitored for the next two months when the twins were too be delivered early be ceasarian section... (please continue!) |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Carolyn P on Sep 2nd, 2003, 10:50pm on 09/02/03 at 22:22:10, Marianne wrote:
Gulp How? ...can you continue from that, I wouldn't even dare try. |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 3rd, 2003, 9:15am Sorry to join the pedantic brigade, as I think the idea is great, but my kids were born in 1971 & 74, and there were no scans then! Sorry! :( :( :( :( |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Marianne on Sep 3rd, 2003, 12:16pm Well they existed! Ultrasound was first used in medicine in 1942! :P |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Marianne on Sep 3rd, 2003, 1:00pm 'Come on Len, let's go, give Reg your bag.' said Joey who had come to be with Joey at this difficult time. 'Right, its right there Reg.' Len stammered. The three left Reg and Len's house that was situated not far from the san, they got in Reg's big motor car and drove off. It was a lovely April afternoon, the sun was shinning, the birds were singing and any other day Len would have been delighted by the scene. Today though she was scared, scared for her babies and scared for herself. At the San a nurse met them and lead them to a private room where Len would be spending the next three or four months. 'I want to see the incubators and the ventilators!' Lens said after she had surveyed her living quaters. 'Ok Len, show us there nurse, go to you paptients Reg!' Joey ordered in Joey style. 'Come on then,' The nurse lead them to a room where they already had a baby on a venitaltor, the child was in a big brown box with metal legs, a large tuble was attatched in the place of a nappy and the baby had a tube down its throat. 'Oh God, my poor babies!' Len excalimed before bursting ino tears. 'thats enough - it may not come to this Mrs Entwistle!' bristled the nurse. 'I know nurse, but if it does, what are my babies chances?' Len questioned, not prepared for the reply. '90% of all babies who need help with breathing, die - come on, i need to dettle you in!' informed the nurse. (this is well researched, the figure is correct and incubators were around by the 1880's, ventillators were around by the fifties but death rates hight until 70's when death rate dropped from 90% to 50%!) |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Jennie on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:15pm I know Jo is only being a concerned mother here, but she really ought to leave Len and Reg to handle this by themselves, and only butt in if she is asked to. When I was pregnant, the last thing I wanted was my mother butting in with out-dated advice, I had enough to do to cope with the morning sickness ( well, that's what they called it, so why was I still vomiting late on into the evening?) |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:26pm After I'd had my first, Mum was giving me advice (outdated!) and Mum-in-law was asking how I did things! Guess which way I went when my first grand-daughter arrived! ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Jennie on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:33pm I had to watch my grandson screaming with colic, but when I dared to offer a word of advice, it was made quite clear that it wasn't wanted. What could I do? Mind you, now gripe water doesn't have alcohol in it any more, I've quite lost my taste for it. I used to give my kids a sthingyful, and if that didn't work, I'd have a tablesthingyful myself! |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Jennie on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:40pm I know I'm thick, but WHY does the censor not allow the word s*p*o*o*n? Please explain someone or send along a sanity cow. I've racked my brains down to the knuckles. |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:43pm It's computer logic, and computer logic isn't humanly logical! ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Ally on Sep 3rd, 2003, 3:58pm It's the word p*o*o*n, apparently it's (um how to put this delicately), a slang term for a *vital male organ* I didn't know this, but someone from Austalia explained it. (where I hink its more common) |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 3rd, 2003, 4:06pm Oh well! that explains it!! Aussies can't talk English any more than Americans can!!!! :o :o ;D ;D Ducks for cover!!! Joking!!1 Honest!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by KB on Sep 3rd, 2003, 11:15pm *the Head Girl leads the Aussie brigade to force an apology from Pat* Actually I'm surprised the word doesn't come out sthingyn, because after all what letters come between the 's' and the 'n' in that word? |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 4th, 2003, 12:03pm I have to say that my daughter has just come home form a few months in Australia and New Zealand, and she has had a wonderful time in both countries. She says that everyone was very welcomong and friendly. ;D |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Rachel on Sep 4th, 2003, 12:06pm Sorry to stick my pedantic nose in where it probably isn't wanted, but I thought it was impossible to tell if you were pregnant with conjoined twins until almost at the point, if not at the point of delivery? It's one of the reasons there is such a problem with it, as there is very little time to actually make any kind of preparations. Sorry if I am incorrect, but thought it was worth raising the thought for this story. Rachel ~ mooching around having misplaced the Sanity Cow once more |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by PatW on Sep 4th, 2003, 12:15pm on 09/04/03 at 12:06:53, Rachel wrote:
Accidently on purpose? ;D |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Rachel on Sep 4th, 2003, 12:18pm Personally I think someone swiped it and is currently in the Lab attempting to do schoolgirl-cloning on the poor beast! But they are in for a shock, cos the one they swiped is the spare version designed to be used as a public relations example and the real one is now in a secure location known only to me and a select band of specialists who are engaged in trying to work out if it will taste as good as standard roast beef, or whether roast Sanity beef has any additional flavours Rachel ~ definitely minus the Sanity Cow's protective custody once more |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Vikki on Sep 4th, 2003, 10:05pm *worries about Rachel* *hopes she finds that sanity cow soon!* |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by Rachel on Sep 4th, 2003, 10:23pm lol - thanks for the concern Vikki! Unfortunately (for you lot!) I have offered to lend it to Rachael while she goes on holiday, so I'm afraid the plot bunnies may be about to have their wicked way with me once more ;) Rachel ~ too many bunnies, not enough time |
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Title: Re: The Entwistles Post by CF on Sep 4th, 2003, 10:31pm I'm so sorry to be pedantic as well, but my (little) brother was born in 1962 and they definitely didn't use ultrasound scans then, (don't think, off the top of my head, that they used them for pregnancy until the late seventies/early eighties) so I think the chances of Len and Reg knowing they were having conjoined twins before they were born was probably pretty slight, but I should imagine the chances of her having twins was pretty high, given there are twins (lots!) on both sides of her family (though not identical ones). However, I think the idea of conjoined twins would be a superb twist to the usual ideals of safe delivery - I don't think anyone in the Chalet School has a Caeserean section or a miscarriage although there are quite a few cases of infant death. (Sorry, these sentences are very long). |
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