LIFE

Tokyo is a busy place. Jacky wants to try to commute on the train from her house to the school.

"Are you sure dear? You will commute by train?" Luz asks Jacky.

"Mama, Tokyo has the best train, and I can reach the school for just about thirty minutes with less traffic. Don't worry, I'll be fine." Jacky replied.

Luz will give her a ride to Rippongi ,Ichome train station then she will ride the train to Korakuen Station then transfer to another train going to Ochanomizo station and walk to Tokyo Medical and Dental University. She is enjoying this trip daily for three months now.

A normal Monday she is now on the train, she ate a slice of pizza, then she read some of her notes from the hospital. she had her coffee. Then she read her English King James Bible given by Juan Tera during their engagement in Green Leaf Hotel. She read a verse from Proverbs.

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour."

This is Proverbs 3:5-16 very good verses.

She prayed while the train is moving just about 10 minutes she is already in the station. She was about to go out of the station gate to walk to the university.

"Help, please help!" A man's voice crying.

People are surrounding something she can not see clearly.

"What does a baritone voice of a man cry for help?" Jacky thinks.

She became curious when a girl shouted she is having a baby! How can a man have a baby? Or...

Then her doctor instinct sinks in. She made a way so she can see the situation

A pregnant woman sitting on the wet floor, it could be her bag of water.

"Get something that she can lie on. Give me your jackets. please this can not wait this is an emergency." Jacky told the men surrounding her.

The men and women with jackets responded, They put off their jackets and gave it to her immediately.

A collection of Twelve jackets, she made a bed of jackets and let her lie on it. Then Jacky put two jackets under her hips to elevate it a little. Then she asks the janitor to send her clean garbage bags that have not been used and she put it under the hips to catch the baby not to touch the floor when the baby is out. She then washed her hands with her alcohol sanitizer and put on surgical gloves she had in her bag, which she usually uses during the chemistry laboratory.

She sees the baby's head, she's crowning. The crowd is looking anxious.

She sees the head blurred by a membrane stretched across it, then she pinches the membrane (the amniotic sac) with her hands and twists it. It was already broken.

Jacky put her hand in front of the baby's head and let it come out nice and slow.

The baby is sliding out gradually in waves as the Mom's uterus contracts. As the baby comes out, it turned to the side naturally.

She put some soft pressure on the base of the vagina near the perineum to assist the baby's head pass.

"Baby's head is out!" she said and she advised the Mom to relax.

She cleaned the baby's nose and mouth with a clean towel to wipe away liquid and membrane from the baby's airway.

Jacky has seen the umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck, she tried to slide the cord over the baby's head and it did. She delivered the baby successfully.

Claps from the witnesses.

The husband is bowing thanking her repeatedly.

An ambulance arrived and sent the Mom and baby to the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital.

Her heroic did become trending in the social media, posted by one of the spectators and reporters are in the University to interview her.

"Kyodo News, The Japan Times, and Japan Today are here to interview you, Jacky, you are a celebrity now!" Aoi is shouting.

"Shoo, be silent!" Jacky shyly said.

"The man whose wife you help deliver her baby is calling, come to my office." The School Director Asahi said.

"Hello?" Jacky answering the phone.

"Are you the one who delivered our Baby?" The man asked excitedly.

"Is there a problem Sir?" Jacky asked.

"No, no there is no problem. My wife wants to know your name." The man answered.

"I'm Jacky Yamadachi, Sir," Jacky said.

"I'm Nobu, and my wife is Yua, I text her your name, and she named our baby girl as Jackie after you. Thank you so much, Doctor, we can repay you someday!" Nobu said.

"Don't think of it. I'm happy that she is doing well. Have a nice day Sir." Jacky said.

The reporters we're rushing to the conference room to have her interview as authorized by the School Director.

" What can you say about the baby delivery in the train station?" a reporter asked Jacky.

It was an opportunity to help in times of emergency, and apply what we learned from this prestigious university.

"What do you want to specialize?" another journalist asked.

" I think I may specialize in Heart Surgery" Jacky replied.

"What made you think to deliver the baby on the train station floor than to wait for the ambulance to bring her to the nearest hospital?

" She is about to give birth already. It may be too late to move her further. Helping those in pain and sick is a sacred duty. We have the Hippocratic Oath which says:

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter? May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."

"Life is a cycle of birth and death. It is a privilege that we can serve others by helping alleviate or curing the pain and diseases of the sick for God's glory."