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- Rob was the one who thought we should go to the hospital.
I think it was his idea to go,
and it was a good idea because we needed to.
My water broke on our way there
and they had a room ready and everyone was waiting for me,
and when I got into the room
I think the nurses knew the baby
was going to come very soon.
But then when they got me on the bed
they realized that something wasn't right,
that we were having a problem.
- She came in off the elevator
and we thought we were gonna have a baby
as soon as she walked in the door.
And then from there we noted that she was bleeding
and having a ton of pain,
that baby's heart tones were down pretty low.
- As soon as I got upstairs they were like,
"You gotta get into the room right now,"
"she's gonna have the baby if she hasn't already had it."
And we got in there and there was about five nurses,
and then they wheeled her off,
and that was the last I saw of her for quite awhile.
- We were ready to go as soon as Dr. Becker was there
because time really was of the essence for her
and for me in that situation.
- When I arrived there were other nurses
that were helping out on the floor
and kind of letting me know as soon
as I walked through the door where we were going,
and walk is probably not the word, I ran.
- And I remember Dr. Becker's face
and I remember her saying, "Hi, I'm Dr. Becker"
"and I'm gonna get your baby out."
And that was it,
that's the last memory I had until I woke up.
- As far as baby's concerned I think we got
from incision to baby in less than a minute.
I sent Ben over to the table at that point
to be with the baby to make sure the baby
was being resuscitated and doing okay.
- [Jennifer] We were all like actually probably
crying after the baby was all good
and we said it was a miracle.
- When I went to evaluate what was happening surgically,
I saw that she had had a uterine rupture
so I had them call my partner Dr. Magnusson in to assist me,
and as we were evaluating all parts of the surgery,
I noted that there was actually a hole in the bladder too.
And so while we were working on the hysterectomy
I had kind of called out to the staff
that I really needed a urologist.
- I was about to go to bed
and I received a phone call
from the operating room nurses at the Fairview Lakes.
Dr. Becker, I could hear her in the background
on the speakerphone,
they were in the middle of doing
the hysterectomy at that time.
They said we're in a bind here
and we need your assistance.
We as urologists here cover those weekend calls.
- They were keeping me updated and letting me know
kind of what was going on
and that they were calling another specialist
to come in and help.
- It took us probably about an hour or so,
maybe an hour and a half
to get things inspected and mobilized and repaired properly.
- I really appreciate the fact
that I can go to this small community hospital
and feel comfortable and familiar
and they can tap into specialists.
Like not every hospital has a urologist
to come and help you.
- Being connected to the smaller community hospitals
allows us to be one bigger network
and provide care here that cannot
be provided in other smaller places.
And that connection I think is key
to providing care that Alisha
received during her hospitalization.
And just knowing that Dr. Becker
could talk to Dr. Pinkhasov
and whether it's over the phone to get advice,
or in this case he came up and actually helped me himself.
- I work with the best team around.
I mean my nurses are all incredibly seasoned
and know what they're doing
and just having everybody there
doing what they're supposed to do,
what they've been trained to do
allowed me to do what I was trained to do.
- Sometimes it's overwhelming to think
what the outcome could have been
had people not acted right away,
if someone hadn't called Dr. Becker right away
and she hadn't got there just after me,
if there had been another 10 or 20 minutes
we might not have Violet here with us.
I don't even know how you say thank you
for something like that, it's just amazing.
