Re: I want to hear some good, uplifting Christmas stories!!!!

Posted by donjr on December 21, 2012 at 16:38:20 from (72.71.189.208):

In Reply to: I want to hear some good, uplifting Christmas stories!!!! posted by JD Seller on December 20, 2012 at 21:43:22:

Back in 1966, I was on ambulance duty with the fire company, and it was snowing hard. We were alerted for an emergency transport of a pregnant woman to the hospital at the old Bainbridge Naval Training Center Hospital. We had to get the county to plow a path into a small old milk house where the family resided. We used a 4 wheel drive brush truck to break a path back into the farm. She was having her 12th kid. 6 had survived- 3 boys and 3 girls. She was diabetic, had a kidney infection and was 7 months pregnant. With the weather conditions outside, we went for the local doctor, and he looked at her and told us that she would be dead by morning if we didn't get her to a hospital that night. Three of us in the group said we'd try, and headed east with her in the ambulance. About fifteen miles from home, the engine sputtered and died. This happened numerous times, all the way across the Conowingo dam on the Susquehanna river. Water Witch VFD from Port Deposit near Bainbridge NTC met us about five miles above town and transported her the rest of the way. We went on to Water Witch's station, and worked on the ambo, which we found had a plugged fuel filter. The local garage got us a new one at two in the morning, and we headed back home in the blizzard. The next morning, the local Lions club filled two baskets with food, and my mother cooked a ham that was included for the family. A neighbor of the Doc's asked me to stop when we took the basket over. He reached into his wallet and pulled ou a fifty dollar bill, put it into an envelope, and wrote "Merry Christmas, from a Neighbor". At that time, $50 was about my average take home pay for a 40 hour week. My brother and I delivered the baskets to the husband and the kids, which he asked us to put on the table, and then closed the door behind us. The girls each had a cheap doll, and the boys a plastic toy pistol. Jim and I didn't get a 'Thanks' or even a 'Kiss my ask'. I never found out how she made out, nor anything about the rest of the family. I did have a run in with him the next summer. I had been working on a cable all morning, and just after lunch he came around the corner of the building I had been working behind. He was operating a hand tamper for a blacktop crew. He told me to get my truck the hail out of their way so they could blacktop the lane. They finished where I was the next day....

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