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To: alan w who wrote (173743)	8/22/2001 11:13:53 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 769670

Adictions can be cured. Psychological addictions can sometimes be cured in a couple of weeks, that's why they have to add in Wednesday meetings to keep you hooked. TP

To: alan w who wrote (173743)	8/23/2001 1:00:41 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

Baby does it his way with Burger King birth Mannager, father help delivery in restroom By SHARON TURCO, sturco@news-press.com news-press.com A special order didn’t upset a Burger King manager Tuesday when a customer asked her to call 911 because his fiancee was in labor. The ambulance didn’t arrive in time so manager Heidi Shalaby, 31, helped deliver George Velasquez II on the floor of the restaurant’s bathroom at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. In fact, the birth took less than five minutes, about the time it takes to order a Whopper and be served. “I’m only trained in food safety, not in delivering babies,” said Shalaby, who has managed the 4004 Cleveland Ave. Burger King for five years. “I did what I could to help.” Celicia Reeves, a nurse at Gulf Coast Hospital, said Shalaby and Jorge Velasquez did everything “just right” when delivering the 7-pound, 10-ounce baby. George Velasquez II was born healthy — one day past his due date. His mother, Lucila Velasquez, 30, was tired, but uninjured. Paramedics arrived just as Shalaby and Velasquez cupped their hands together and caught baby George. “I was in pain, but I was not scared because George was there,” Lucila Velasquez said from her hospital bed as she munched on graham crackers and sipped juice. The new father was the most worried of the trio. “I saw my son coming, and I didn’t know what to do,” said Jorge Velasquez, 35, of LaBelle. His and Shalaby’s natural reaction — to cup their hands and wait — was the right thing to do. The baby slid easily into their hands. Velasquez, who has a 9-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son, wasn’t worried when she felt her first labor pain Tuesday afternoon. Her previous births lasted 21 hours. She called her husband at work, who rushed home to take his wife to HealthPark Medical Center, a trip of more than 60 miles from their LaBelle home. Still they weren’t worried. On the way to the hospital, Velasquez knew she’d never make it. “Pull over,” she begged her husband. “It hurts too much.” The closest driveway was the one into Burger King. Velasquez ran into the cramped, two-stall bathroom, and her husband yelled to an employee to call an ambulance. Shalaby dialed for help, as she followed the couple into the bathroom. “I had one hand on the phone, and the other out to comfort her,” Shalaby said. At the 911 dispatchers’ direction Shalaby and Velasquez moved Velasquez off the toilet — the new baby could drown if it landed in the toilet — and onto the cold tile floor. “My whole body was shaking,” Shalaby said. “I was very nervous, I wanted her to be safe and her baby to be safe.” Dispatchers via Shalaby told Velasquez to breath slowly. Perhaps paramedics could arrive there in time. George Velasquez II had other ideas. Velasquez took two breaths before the baby slid into the world. “He came so quick,” said Shalaby, a mother of three. “It’s the fastest delivery I have ever seen.” Paramedics arrived just in time to clear baby George’s airways and cut the umbilical cord. It happened so fast, customers didn’t know what was going on until they heard the baby George cry out for the first time. Then, everyone crowded around to welcome the newborn. In the frantic moments after the birth as paramedics rushed the newborn and his mother to the hospital, with Velasquez close behind, Shalaby didn’t even get the name of the new parents. “I wasn’t concerned about their names, only about their health,” she said. Shalaby did tell them that their baby should get free kids meals forever. Velasquez and her son will stay in the hospital 48 hours as precaution. Then, his parents plan to take him visiting. “We’ll go see the paramedics and the manager of Burger King,” Jorge Velasquez said. “We want to say thank you for their help.” * * *