A Hip Tale

Once upon a time in a land called Chicago there lived a young woman with her loving husband and with his loving parents.  This young woman was pregnant with her first son, and they family was exstatic to welcome the little one into the world.

Finally after waiting and waiting for the little one to come, the time came, and labor was induced.  The young woman spent several hours trying to be "tough" and deliver naturally, but after several hours she decided to embrace the blessings of this day and age, and she received an epidural.

After the epidural the young couple anxiously awaited their little one's arrival, but for some reason, he was not coming.  Eventually the doctors figured out that the child's head was too big to leave the woman's body, so a c-section was scheduled, and after being in labor for eleven hours, the young boy was born.

It was a time of much rejoicing for the new little family.  The new mother got settled into her hospital room and she and her husband spent time getting to know their little one.  As night time approached the new father went home to sleep and to let the new mother rest.  She bid farewell to her new son who spent the night in the hospital nursery, and she quickly fell asleep.

During the middle of the night she was awakened by pain.  Many would call this natural and very normal, a woman who just had a nine pound six ounce baby cut out of her is sure to feel pain, but the pain was not in the incission, it was in her hip.  The pain became so intense that the young woman almost began to cry.  She buzzed for the nurse who came in and gave her some pain medication to help with the hip, and the medication dulled the pain, but it never fully left.

After discussing this pain with the doctor the conclusion was reached that after the epidural was given and the bottom half of the young girl's body was numb, her legs were spread very wide eagle, and therefore caused the pain in her hip.  The doctor said that it should get better with time, and the young woman sure hoped so.

Over the next several days as her incision healed the hip continued to hurt.  With time the pain slowly subsided until it was gone.  The young woman thought that the pain was finally over, finished, never to return.  She thought this for a long time, until the barometric pressure changed as a storm came rolling in, and her hip began hurting again.

And to this day this young woman of only twenty-five years can predict when storms are coming because her hip starts hurting.  It is a pain in the hip, but it is one of the sacrifices that she gave in order to have her son.

Tonight is no different.  The day was sunny and warm, but in the last hour and a half a storm has zoomed in and my hip has let me know that there is changes in the weather outside.  And this is the tale of Lacey Miller's weather predicting hip.