Nana Biography

That didn’t phase me. I said, “oh, are you sure? “He said, “absolutely. “Well, living in this world of Christian science, and besides not thinking about medicine and problems, I came home and I told him and I happen to mention that, and he said, oh, Gee, maybe you’d better say something about it. “And I said, “oh no it’ll be all right, suppose I have a cesarean, it’s no big deal. “That was when he went to the FBI, so I was pregnant, went back east, and I never got to a doctor until I got to Michigan, and so I really hadn’t gone to a doctor until maybe April before the baby was born in May. Well, I knew that people had babies all the time, so I finally went to this doctor and told him what the first doctor had said.  He examine me and said everything was fine. I did gained around 50 (laughs) Which was wrong, which I lost, lost all in the first week, all practically at once. I had the baby, perfectly normally, it was like in four hours, which isn’t bad. And so I’ve often wondered if Dr. Don, who was considered the obstetrician here in Palo Alto at the time, was really so great.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? 

Yes, and then after all this – it’s sort of renewed my faith and normal life, I mean, if you’re not afraid, a lot of things work out for you. So, and those days you stayed in the hospital 10 days, you weren’t supposed to get out of bed.  I did. I got up immediately and went into the bathroom, the nurse wasn’t there, you weren’t going to get me to use the bedpan, that’s just ridiculous. All this was proved so true and in those days, I had another friend who had a baby at the same time. She didn’t dare More, she didn’t walk, they told us to walk up steps for a month or something, and we lived in the second floor apartment, I mean, it was ridiculous.

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