I was thoughtful the other morning as Marci and went in to the hospital early last Tuesday morning. The nurse operated a huge complicated looking computerized machine.
That's fine.
She "connected" the machine to my wife's stomach and then turned a knob, fiddled the widgets and expectation grew.
There came a rhythmic wuhhb, wuhhb, wuhhb at around 146 beats per minute. We were listening to the heart of our unborn daughter. I liked it.
The thought then came as I was watching the automated graph of Marci's stomach contractions and our daughter's heart-beat that I was listening to a heart beat.
You can mash your ear up against someone's chest and hear that.
Why invest in all that machinery and gadgetry to still depend on the good 'ole ear?
A lot of technology goes to improving on the five senses that we got. It seems that someone ought to be able to do something that totally bypasses all human contact. But then nobody'd buy it...
No comments:
Post a Comment