The Miracle In The Air
My aunt has been a FA for 35 years. She works on a flight from a country in South America to Miami. An hour in, a 16yo is screaming from abdominal pain. They call for a doctor to help, and a general practitioner comes forward. Ten minutes later, the doctor is asking them to clear out the first class section so he can deal with her having a miscarriage. My aunt makes a more specific call for help, and an ObGyn comes forth and takes over. The girl doesn’t quite miscarry – she delivers a baby, around 22 weeks old. Even the doctors hardly know what to do, so my aunt once again turns to the passengers. Up come two neo-natal ICU nurses. They keep the infant alive for several hours until the plane lands in San Juan, where the full medical team, the mother, and the baby de-plane, and the flight continues to Miami. Sadly, my aunt learned that the baby lived only two days, but she still feels blessed to have been able to give the baby every chance to make it, thanks to the incredible array of passengers on board that day.