Chapter 378

Monday, October 18, 6:30 AM

"Sergeant, if you want to be in the O.R. with her, you have to leave right now and get scrubbed in."

Cassandra looked him right in the eye and said, "What do you mean 'If' he wants to be in there. He is going to be in there, if he wants to see his children tonight. Right dear?"

Sergeant looked around the pre-op area for moral support, but everyone looking back at him was a woman. Nurses, aides, support staff, patients, even the doctors were women. As they looked at him, they made him feel tinier and tinier by the second.

Doctor Linda Childs said, "Well Cassandra, it's not the first time I've seen a man wimp out on observing a C-section, and it will probably not be my last."

"Get me a lawyer before you put me under the anesthesia, if he is not going to be in the room with me, I want a divorce. That son of a bitch got me pregnant; the least he could do is see me through it.