Recap
The show dealt with a young pregnant woman and her husband coming into the ER, the woman suffering extreme pain in her abdomen. She was twenty two weeks pregnant, the fetus not viable for another three and a half months. Ilana, the mother to be, begged for pain killers but the doctors told her that anything strong enough to eliminate her pain would be bad for the fetus. She was examined thoroughly and the idea of her having fibromyalgia was tossed about. One of the doctors decided that her pain could be caused by pressure in the brain, i.e., a tumor and she was examined for that. The MRI displayed the suspected tumor and her husband and Ilana were informed of the certain risks inherent in being given the operation. Ilana told them she wanted the operation despite the risks and gave her okay to go ahead. Her husband was not so sure.
He did not want his unborn son to be aborted, to keep him in the womb if at all possible, and he was afraid that the baby or his wife might die if the brain operation was performed. He knew that she might die of bleeding in the brain and said this was his only child. He told the doctors that she had been a completely different person before she'd become pregnant, but that the consequent pain had changed her totally and he wanted his wife back. He said Ilana did not even like to be touched by him any longer, that he was completely puzzled as to the vast changes in her now...
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