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William Cooper. anything and I just kept on working and then lo and behold about two hours before broadcast time Annie came in and said her stomach was hurting a little bit and I'd noticed that she was going up and down the stairs she'd go down to the kitchen and then she'd come up to the uh mid-level we have a tri-level and then she'd go into the bedroom then I'd see her go back and then she'd go down the stairs and I thought you know what are you trying out for the uh for the Olympics in Atlanta or what and she said uh no I just don't feel good I don't want to sit still and so uh she disappeared for a little while came back and uh said she wanted to go to the doctor so I said fine and I've been through this before so I told her to go pack her little bag and lay down on the bed and stay there for a little while and let's see what happens well she kept going up and down the stairs again and I finally made her go lay down on the bed and she had her little bag pack and then uh pretty soon she said she had to go and then then was when she told me that a major indication that a baby's going to be born happened in Taylor way earlier that afternoon her water broke and she was in the process of at that time telling me that she was having contractions every five minutes here it is almost broadcast time and uh I had to hurriedly call Gary a bourgeois who by the way folks we owe a great round of applause because he's the one who takes care of our reruns when I can't be here and uh I would especially thank him yesterday on such short notice that he did a rerun broadcast I apologize that it wasn't a more uh less played rerun but this was totally unexpected I mean it wasn't unexpected but it was unexpected if you understand what I mean so uh it's 50 miles to the hospital on winding country mountain roads and of course every police car in Arizona has a radar so I hooked up the uh the ECM the electronic countermeasures and loaded Annie and Pooh into the Bronco Annie's having contractions every five minutes and Pooh looks like looks like she's seen a ghost and doesn't really understand what's going on even though we had bought her a book explaining pregnancy and babies and all that kind of stuff and I had read it to her and with her and she'd asked questions and we talked about the questions and the answers and I thought she understood but she didn't really and uh that will be a little obvious a little later so uh Annie's in the Bronco and has a reclining seat on that side and but she doesn't want to put the seat down and recline and she's got a seat belt around her and a shoulder strap and uh um you know a womb full of baby and uh I knew she wasn't comfortable there wasn't really much I could do that I had my hands full on the road and by the way folks at this time of year uh it's not unusual to find big giant two thousand pound elk standing right in the middle of the highway or deer crossing and occasionally even a whole herd of antelope so uh I had to be very careful it was twilight and it's so difficult to see things in twilight and I was trying to uh exceed the limit so to speak without getting caught knowing that if I didn't make it to that hospital and she was already having contractions five minutes apart that it's possible that that baby was going to be born on that road and um last time I helped give birth to a baby was in Vietnam many many years ago and to tell you the truth I don't even remember what I did so uh we raced down the highway and ran into a whole convoy of highway repair highway construction equipment you know the ones that lay down the the tar stuff and spread it and they creep like one half mile an hour it wasn't just one or two it was a whole long line of these things now this needless to say made me a little nervous made Annie a lot nervous and uh Pooh was trying to talk to Annie and tell her how much she loved her and she knew Annie was in pain and every once in a while Annie would yell out a few yelps like the uh like a wolf howling at the moon and poor Pooh would be beside herself wanting to comfort her mother and not really even knowing what was wrong and her mother of course at times being in the condition she was would snap at both of us leave me alone drive faster oh it hurts you know that kind of stuff and it's not funny I mean it wasn't funny to her at all it's kind of funny looking back on it for all of us but at the time it wasn't funny and Pooh was beside herself and I'm trying to explain to Pooh what's going on and how her mother feels and where we're going while I'm driving and hoping not to uh come across an elk in the road or deer or herd of deer or and then I had to pass this long line of highway construction equipment in the twilight not knowing if there was some fool in the other lane coming toward me with no lights on in one of these sort of gray cars that you can't see during twilight and uh as we began to get closer to the hospital her contractions began to get closer together until it wasn't five minutes apart it was more like two minutes apart and I began to get very very nervous and I and Annie and Pooh all of us were extremely happy to get to that hospital and nothing had transpired up to that point except an awful lot of sweat and nervousness and uh screaming and yelling and all kinds of things but we got there and we got her in went right into the room and they stripped her down and put her in the bed and put all kinds of wires and tubes and microphones and stuff on her and and uh then it began to become clear to everybody what was happening and just how far along it was because right there on that monitor right in front of me was the baby's heartbeat and it was wonderful and Annie was on the bed and the contractions were coming faster and faster and faster and the nurse looked up at me and she said I need to examine her cervix she'd gone to the doctor yesterday he told her that he would check her dilation next week ho ho little did he know if he'd have checked her yesterday we wouldn't have been up against the wall like we were but we were up against the wall because I took boo out of the hallway boo and I tossed the teddy bear for a few minutes the nurse came out and said if she's going to deliver any second would you help me wheel her bed into the delivery room so I did no sooner did we get into the delivery room and get her transferred over to the delivery table I guess it's called and get her legs in those weird things that you wouldn't catch me dead with my legs in them and the doctor walked in and took one look and Annie started bearing down and let me backtrack a little bit see when Pooh was born this all really took us by surprise because when Pooh was born folks Annie was in labor for 12 hours and it was just as excruciating for me as it was for her and there were turns during that 12 hours where I could I swear I felt exactly what she felt and so last night was a big shock I mean we were expecting not as long because I've talked to many women who've given several births they say that the second time isn't as hard or as long but I didn't expect it to be like wham bam thank you man it's all over and neither did Annie but she was thankful for that but I'll tell you I think Annie suffered a little more pain this time than she did with Pooh I mean the screams were primal they came from somewhere that I can't touch and so it touched me deeply and at one point she took a deep breath and bore down and pushed and then when she let out this breath that just this primal scream came out that and in this scream she said oh honey I'm hurt and I gotta tell you folks something primal in me let loose I mean I could feel the adrenaline rushing and I was ready to fight I I wanted to kill somebody to stop her from being hurt and I don't know where that comes from but I think it's in all of us and I had to really hold that back because I think that's the instinct in men that has been bred over the centuries to protect our women and boy there it was welling up in me and all of a sudden Annie became Superwoman she almost broke my arm a couple of times when of course she was holding my hands and I was holding her hands and trying to help her with her breathing and then all the next thing I knew my arms were in positions that I never thought they could be in and of course she didn't even realize she was doing it and then I saw the baby's head and I knew that it was almost over and at 8 36 last night 8 36 p.m. our second daughter was born and Annie was able to lay back breathe deeply and slowly and smile came over her face the doctor did all the necessary things that he has to do took the baby over and put it in the bassinet and in the meantime Pooh had come to the delivery room with us just followed the bed right in there I mean this is the craziest hospital I ever saw because when Pooh was born they made me put on all kinds of weird things and scrub and put on a mask and a thing over my head and booties over my shoes and told me I could do this and couldn't do that and stand here and don't stand there this hospital nobody said anything to anybody at any time you didn't have to put anything on or take anything off or stand anywhere I mean I could have done anything I wanted which is a big difference between big city hospitals and rural hospitals and it was wonderful so Pooh got to see a little bit of the beginnings of the birth of her little sister and I think that after the explanation in the car while we were in the hospital along the way to the hospital and all of that stuff I think she was deeply impressed and has a better understanding of what life's all about now than she did before and at some point one of the nurses took her by the hand and took her down and bought her a Coke and set her in the chair Pooh sat there and cried for her mother for a little bit because as she told me later she wanted to make her mother not hurt Pooh is a good little girl she's always been a good little girl and then after the baby was born Pooh came down all by herself pushed open the delivery room door and came in to look at her little newborn baby sister Pooh and I because her mother had not been able to pick a name had picked Allison Dovey Cooper Allison because Annie had expressed at some time within the last week that she liked that name and Dovey because that's my mother's name and Pooh chose the spelling she liked it with a Y so her name is A-L-L-Y S-O-N Allison Dovey Cooper and Pooh stayed in the delivery room after that right up until the time that we all helped take mom down to her room where she could sleep for the night now when they put the baby in the bassinet in the delivery room after the baby had been born the baby began to cry and wail and scream bloody murder and she just turned beet red all over and clenched her little fist just as hard as she could and I knew that she needed somebody to hold her that was very clear to me and everybody was so busy that finally I asked the nurse if she could get the baby and she did she brought the baby over and folks I held that baby in my arms and she stopped crying instantly and just opened her eyes and I know the babies can't see at that point but they'd already washed out her eyes and she opened them up and the biggest beautiful brown eyes just appeared to be looking at me but I know I'm not deluding myself I know that she couldn't see a thing I know that she could hear my voice though and Pooh and I had spent many hours talking to her through her mommy's tummy before she was born so when I began to talk to her she just soothed right down and I knew well I don't know where that came from I wonder if anybody does let me just check what I've got here because I don't even know what's come on anyway I held that little baby and she was just wrapped in a little blanket I guess it was and I held her for a long time quite a long time as a matter of fact and as I said she loved it she loved every single second of it she loved to be rocked she just settled right in sort of went to sleep if you will but she really wasn't asleep and then I held her down so that Pooh could see her little baby sister and Pooh began to talk to her and she opened her eyes and it looked just exactly like she was looking at Pooh the most incredible thing I've ever seen it was like she knew who we were and maybe she did because of all the hours that we did spend talking to her through her mommy's tummy and so she was very comfortable with us she wasn't as comfortable with the nurse or with the doctor in fact she didn't like that doctor at all after he had done what he had to do and then I stood back up with Allison and talked to her some more this folks is what she said to me while there and you a game of gold I may make a play for the Jackie but when I do I don't follow through because my heart belongs to Jackie if I invite a boy tonight to dine on my fine so I'm happy I just don't just asking for more but my heart belongs to Jackie yes my heart belongs to Jackie so I simply couldn't be back yes my heart belongs to Jackie Jackie so I want to warn you laddie though I know that you're perfectly well that my heart belongs to daddy cause my daddy he treats him so young and that's the way that it ended up I had to give her back to the nurse I didn't want to I wanted to take her home but of course I couldn't do that and Annie couldn't go home anyway so the baby went back in the bassinet and the bassinet disappeared to the nursery for the baby to be all cleaned off and weighed seven pounds one ounce and I forget how long she was but to a big man like me she's not very long I don't care how long she is she's just a little bitty tiny tiny little baby and I just love her dearly I loved her before she was born and I'll love her until the day I die or the day she dies and beyond anyway so it really doesn't make any difference now Annie everybody disappeared because all of a sudden we began to hear some screams from other parts of this place and everybody the doctor the nurses everybody disappeared and there's Annie still laying on his table and not very comfortable and not finished and everybody disappeared and there's Pooh and I and I'm trying to keep Pooh entertained and talk to her and tell her what's going on and Annie doesn't feel too good I've got to tell you that she felt a lot better than she did when she was giving birth but she didn't feel too good at all and she wanted some water in the worst kind of way finally got her some ice water and she did the first thing that you're never supposed to do when you've gone through tremendous physical effort and you're real thirsty and real tired she wolfed down a half of a big giant cup and I don't mean cup like cup of coffee I mean big giant like you know these super whammo whopper deals you get at circle k or places like it looked like one of those big giant cups that they brought her ice water well she sucked down about half of that before you could even blink an eye and Boo and I played toss the teddy bear and talk to mommy and hold her hand and explain what happened and all that kind of stuff until people began to come back and then got Annie all finished and cleaned up and ready to go and we helped her off the table and into a wheelchair and that's when drinking that much water all of a sudden produced the inevitable result that all men who have ever performed hard labor in the sun and then have done the same thing have discovered it all comes right back up and that's what happened so we spent a while sort of getting Annie back to normal and cleaned up from that little episode and then down to the room she went well by this time it was pretty late at night and actually it was about ten minutes until ten I called Gary and I believe that he announced the birth of our new baby girl at the end of the broadcast last night for those of you who weren't listening and for those of you who called today to congratulate us I'm sorry we weren't home we I'll tell you the rest of the story in a moment but we weren't here as you all discovered when you called and I want to thank those of you who sent flowers and wished us well and thank Anthony Hilder and Daphne who called and left a wonderful message on the machine I couldn't believe it they sang a duet together and it really sounded good in fact it sounded so good I couldn't figure out who this was for a few minutes it was Anthony J. Hilder and Daphne his girlfriend and it was wonderful and thanks Swiss America Trading for the flowers that you sent and Allison's first little stuffed toy which is a little stuffed pink pig and I bet she'll love it and it'll probably be her favorite forever so everybody at Swiss America thank you dearly for that well after we got mom to her room where she could get into bed and relax for a while and not have to meet anybody's expectations of anything and all her tests were done and everything it was late and I still had to feed poo because we hadn't eaten anything and whether or not I was hungry I had this little five year old girl who had just been going like a lightning ball all day and I knew that she needed to be fed so we said our goodbyes to mom and poo and I walked out in the parking lot and got the bronco and then we sat there and just talked for a little bit because I wanted to make sure that she was okay with all of this and there wasn't any trauma that was going to come up later because really I was really surprised well she she could just go anywhere she wanted and she did because we were all busy with other things and nobody was really watching her although I'm sure all the nurses were sort of keeping an eye on her and if she'd have gotten in any trouble they would have you know helped her out whatever but this is a different kind of a place where we live it's one of the most beautiful places in this world and people here are more real people it's more like it used to be in other places in the country and is no more it's one of the reasons that I moved here this is like America used to be everywhere but is only like this in some places like this across this country now and you'll learn a little bit more about that later in this story because it's surprising so Poo and I sat there and talked and that's when I heard that she when the nurse took her down and put her in the little waiting room and gave her a coke actually it wasn't a coke it was a Nestle's grape is what it was she told me how she'd cried for her mommy because she didn't want her mommy to hurt so bad and so we just talked and I just asked her questions and talked to her and explained things to her and she asked me questions and she felt pretty good about all that and I figured that it was all okay and she was really happy with her baby sister and we set off to get some chow and some food some stuff in the belly and there were some restaurants along the way and there was a but I don't know if any of them were open I know that we passed the jack in the box and mcdonald's and even poo won't eat at mcdonald's in this family we hate that place two places we'll never eat that's mcdonald's and burger king any place else is fair again but we passed the jack in the box and all kinds but poo didn't want to eat in any of those places she didn't even want to stop and check and see if a restaurant was open she wanted to go to the sonic drive-in and she really likes the sonic drive-in but I didn't suggest that that was her idea and that's where she wanted to go see we have a 58 chevy and the sonic drive-in kind of takes you back to the 50s so every once in a while I'd take her and her mom to the sonic drive-in and the 58 chevy and that just carried over into liking to go there all the time it's kind of like the old A&W root beer places they have real good hamburgers not junky hamburgers but good hamburgers and good drinks and limeade made from real limes and stuff like that you know not limeade made from something that tastes almost like Kool-Aid but not as good so we went to the sonic drive-in and Pooh ordered a hamburger and some fries and a diet coke which turned out to be a Pepsi because they didn't sell coke and I had a limeade and a steak sandwich and some onion rings and then we sat and talked some more talked quite a bit in fact Pooh and I talked probably last night as much as we've ever talked talked a lot and you know Pooh and I have been friends from the day she was born because when she was born she was having some problems and she wasn't too happy for about a week or two and she had some digestion problems and so I would go to work in the morning and Annie would be with her all day and she would clean the house and all that kind of stuff and when I got home in the evening I would sort of rest a little bit until it was time for Annie to go to bed and then I would stay up with Pooh all night and I mean all night saying to her and hold her and rock her and we got to be best pals during that time and we've been best pals ever since and anybody that's ever seen us together will tell you that I mean we're just good friends and always will be and I hope that Allison and I can develop that kind of relationship also and I'm sure that we will and then it came time to drive home and by that time it was really late and I mean really late and we had to get up this morning and and then go and get Annie and the baby so we drove home and being as it was so late and we were so tired and I mean really tired folks really tired and there was a possibility that there would be elk or deer or antelope on the road and we did the speed limit exactly and Pooh was so tired and so sleepy and she just couldn't keep her eyes open even though I'd ask her to help me keep an eye out for the animals at one point she said Poppy I just can't keep my eyes open I'm just so sleepy I said are you going to help me watch for elk I just can't keep my eyes open and that's the last I heard from her until we got home we live a long way from the hospital when we got home I woke her up and we went inside Pooh went right to bed and I tucked her in and then I made a couple of calls and I went to bed about 30 minutes later out like a light until about sometime around 2 in the morning when Sugar Bear began to bark he's a wonderful watchdog and when he barks you must pay attention because he didn't just bark for nothing he's not one of these dogs that just barks he only barks if something's wrong so I got up at about 2 in the morning and by golly there were two cars up here where they're not supposed to be and they were police cars and that made my heart race a little bit because I had no idea what they were doing up here and I watched them for a little while for about an hour I guess until I figured that they were on a stakeout on the houses below us which they've done in the past and then at a certain point they both turned on their lights and went racing down the hill and spotlights all over the place so I know that they're somebody reported a burglar down in the town off the mountain from where we were and they were just using that spot to do some reconnaissance I guess anyway so that took about an hour and a half out of the night and went back to sleep and woke up this morning and by golly you know you really miss Annie when she's not around and you got a five year old girl to get ready to go because Pooh wanted a ponytail and try as I might I couldn't make a ponytail that didn't look funny and so we didn't have a ponytail this morning and Pooh couldn't find her socks and we couldn't go to the hospital unless she had some socks so we finally found her some red socks and one of them had a big hole in it and she was uncomfortable for a while and she finally said I'm used to the hole poppy we can go now so we did oh and she couldn't find any toothpaste because her mother had taken the toothpaste to the hospital so we finally found some toothpaste and got her teeth brushed and my teeth brushed and off we went driving to the hospital and Annie is expecting us there early the nurses and doctors are expecting us there early and we get to the park where the night before we had passed this long convoy of road construction equipment well folks they were back they were back with a vengeance and they were all over the place and the road was blocked and they had this guy out there was a red flag and a stop sign and they said you can't go so how long is it going to be oh maybe 15 or 20 minutes or maybe 30 minutes oh boy so Pooh and I sat there and talked about the baby and about the night before and about what we were going to do that day and how nice it was going to be to get the baby home and Pooh wanted to know how to hold the baby and all of that kind of stuff and that's what we talked about but it wasn't just 15 minutes and it wasn't just 20 minutes and it wasn't just 30 minutes and I was getting ready to pull all my press credentials out and slap that card up there in front of the windshield and put that Bronco in four wheel drive and take down the shoulder when all of a sudden out of nowhere comes this follow me truck and they let us all go and so we got there late and of course Annie wanted to know why we were there late as if you know we weren't occupied with anything so we had to explain why we were late and then we went down to see the baby in the nursery and they told us that Annie could go home but the baby couldn't I said whoa you know I start feeling this adrenaline again no no no you're messing with my family what do you mean my baby can't go home and she had a white elevated white blood cell count and something else I forget what it was I knew perfectly well what it was this morning and I knew perfectly well what it was before I started this broadcast and now it's just disappeared right out of my brain cells and I'm still very tired I haven't had any sleep today and about the only one that's had any rest and the one that needs it most of course is Annie and she should have a lot of rest but anyway the the gist of the thing was we had to wait around until 11 o'clock to find these tests that came through to see if we could take Allison home and if everything wasn't really right I didn't really want to take her home but if we could I did want to take her home I don't know if you understand what I'm talking about I wanted to take my baby home but I didn't want to take her home if taking her home was going to endanger her in any way so we waited until 11 o'clock and 11 o'clock became 12 o'clock and finally we began to ask questions and they brought all this paperwork in for us to do and one of the indications folks that this is still like America used to be they gave me all this paperwork which I told them to take and stuff it you know where the sun don't shine and not in those words it was very nice because these are very nice people they're all nurses and doctors who are just doing what other people tell them to do but very nicely I told them to take this stuff and stick it where the sun don't shine we don't give social security numbers we don't fill this stuff out we don't sign birth certificates we don't do these things we don't dance and you know what nobody batted an eyebrow nobody cared one of the nurses says oh you don't pay any taxes do you I said I pay all legal and lawful taxes which I am required to pay but I am not a tax payer and she just smiled the other nurse says well is this a you know when I gave her some papers that she wanted me to sign and stuff and I said well we don't we don't do these things and she said is that your personal preference or is there some other reason I said well I've done a lot of study on these subjects and we don't sign these things she said okay and left and I love it so the baby stayed because the white blood count had blood cell count had actually elevated gone up quite a bit so what that means basically is she's either been exposed to an infection in utero or utera or however that's pronounced in uterine before she was born or she has some kind of small infection which could be a large infection if it's not treated properly so we left her there to have it treated properly and we'll go back again tomorrow whether she's ready to go or not makes no difference I'm going back bright and early tomorrow morning to see my little daughter and hold her and tell her that I love her so she's assured that she's not alone in this world and I saw the nurses there who are very very nice ladies and they were holding the babies and talking to them and treating them very well so when we left we had ordered a crib from JCPenney and they had promised that it would be here last week ladies and gentlemen but the girl who took Annie's order neglected to put it into the computer so the crib will not be here until Tuesday so when we left the hospital with Annie we went down to the flower shop where I had already ordered a beautiful bouquet of roses specially done just for her and because we have to drive so far back home in Arizona I had them put these little glass vials of water and some kind of special thing in there that keeps them fresh for the trip home and then I had to go find something for the baby to sleep in until Tuesday because I'm not the kind of father that just pulls out a drawer and throws his baby in the drawer I don't do that this is my daughter you've got to understand this is my little child so I had to have something nice at least a picnic basket something and actually I bought her a beautiful bassinet and so she'll be sleeping in that bassinet when she comes home hopefully tomorrow if it's not tomorrow it will be very soon and I'm just as pleased as punch Pooh is just as happy as can be in fact about three hours ago Pooh came down and said I want to give Allison a present and I thought that was really nice so Pooh disappeared into her bedroom then she came back and she said what kind of present can I give her and I told her it had to be something very small but bigger than her mouth because babies put everything in their mouth and you can't have anything that will fit in her mouth and it had to be soft and cuddly and something that she would really feel good touching because that's what babies do for a while they just touch you know and mostly they want to put something in their mouth and it's usually a nipple or a bottle and that's all they care about for a while well Pooh disappeared into her room and dug into just about every box and corner and hole that she's got in that room and came out with this cute little stuffed animal that was just perfect and she was so proud of herself and she went over and put that in Allison's bassinet alongside the pig that came from Swiss American training so Allison now has two little stuffed toys and I spent the rest of the evening getting ready for this broadcast and you know this broadcast was so important to me to talk about this and tell everybody out there who's wanted to know when Annie has the baby and all about it and I was so rattle-brained and so tired and really excited and a little disappointed that my baby is not here that I forgot to turn on one of the key pieces equipment that lets the broadcast out of here to go to where you are so you had some dead air time at the beginning and of course that's the way it goes moving west she is a beautiful little girl big fat chubby cheeks in fact she looks just like Pooh did when she was born so who knows what she's going to turn out looking like Pooh looked Pooh had a fat head fat cheeks puffy eyes and a little flat nose and a lot of black hair on her head and she just you know looked like babies look like they all look cute and pretty and cuddly and especially if they're yours they're just beautiful and that's all there is to it but you know in the first week they changed an awful lot at least Pooh did and I think most of them did there's a lot of trauma in being born and there's a lot of baby fat that comes off because you're not fed as steadily or in the same way that a baby is fed by its mother in the womb so the first two weeks there's a big adjustment there in the body and the swelling goes down from the birth trauma and all of that kind of stuff and the baby actually changes color she's changed color from last night to this morning quite dramatically as a matter of fact last night she was beet red and almost purple and her nose was blue this morning she looked just like a normal pink baby should with all the normal color and no more no more purple and blue and no more beet red and of course they put their little hands in like little I don't know what you call them mittens mittens I guess because baby's fingernails folks are sharper than knives and she had already scratched her cheek so she had on these little mittens which Pooh thought was kind of funny and always wanted to see the baby's fingers and then put the mittens back on and see the baby's fingers we spent a few hours with that baby this morning and I spent the most time with her I guess holding her and rocking her and talking to her Pooh can't wait to hold her but of course she hasn't been able to do that yet just a little too soon and want her to get used to it and sit down on the couch and have me right beside her and Annie right beside her so that we can make sure she's holding her real good I think that will just tickle Pooh pink by the way her real name is not Pooh it's Dorothy Marie Cooper and for a while a couple weeks ago it wasn't Pooh she said she didn't like that name anymore she wanted to be called Dorothy and then back to Pooh so I guess we'll call Allison Alley and I hope that I have told you this story in a good way and I hope you all of those of you who have asked over and over again about Annie's pregnancy and about the new baby I hope that this satisfies all of that curiosity and delivers to you the best of the best of the last two days and we'll keep you posted on how the baby's doing and all that kind of stuff I know she's going to be fine she just looks as healthy as can be to me she doesn't look like anything's wrong with her and she doesn't act like anything's wrong with her and I think it's just a normal body immunological reaction to all the stuff that she's been through but we'll find out tomorrow morning and of course I can't let you know tomorrow night or Sunday night but I'll certainly let you know Monday night how all that goes I wanted to get Annie on the radio but as usual Annie won't come near this microphone and probably will never come near it for the rest of her life I don't know that's her choice and who maybe if she wants to will tell you about her experiences in all of this on Monday night but that's up to her too if she doesn't want to do it then you're not going to hear from her because we don't make people do anything around here unless it's a matter of something that's important only then in a good way and that's why our daughter is such a good little girl is because when she needs it she gets the discipline that's required never heavy handed and only when it's required in fact tell you the truth folks while I'm not against spanking we don't do it in this family when who does something wrong she goes to her room she has a wonderful room full of toys and everything and when she wants to go in there and play she just loves her room and when it's time to go to bed she loves her room but when she does something wrong you send her to her room she hates it she stamps her feet and slams the door and ticks the wall and then after a while she comes out and apologizes and says she wants to be a good girl so that's how we do it in our family and anybody who's ever seen Blue knows that she is well behaved and she says yes sir no sir and thank you and please and may I and all of that kind of stuff and she's a good girl and Allison I know is going to be just as good well I thank you for putting up with my new father babbling tonight I am just as proud as punch I am so happy and so tired and I'm going to go to bed I wish you all a very good night and God bless you there's a calm surrender to the rush of days when the heat of the road of the road of the road and where can't you turn away and it can't any moment and it sees me through it's enough for the breath of the warrior just to be with you and can't you tune in to be with you a goodあとtened out It's enough for this wide-eyed wonderer That we've got to fall Can't feel the love tonight I was led to rest And I've been keeping my heart Deep up and down There's a time for everyone If they only learn As the Christian collided doors Moves the dawn and turns There's a rhyme and reason In the wild outdoors When the harvest of dark love Poison leaves me time with yours Can't feel the love tonight Is where we are It's enough for this wide-eyed wonderer That we've got to fall Can't feel the love tonight I was led to rest It's enough for this wide-eyed wonderer To make you live in the back of our Deep up and down It's enough for this wide-eyed wonderer To make you live in the back of our