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I hate Christmas, but this year is different because there is a small chance my wife will die and take our unborn child with her. It's hard, this December 19, to grasp that this could be so. Bed rest has become routine, as had last week's hospitalization, at least by the third day. I bring her food. We eat, we talk, we watch television, all as though we are not only days removed from early morning bleeding, 911, the orange ambulance, triage, the high-risk labor and delivery ward, our growing acquaintance with the vast, blocks-long labyrinth of the Ohio State University Medical Center. As well as wheelchairs, steroids to promote fetal lung development, then ...

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