Almost everyone in my family has been on television or had a minor brush with fame in one way or another. Not “big” fame and not always on television fame but a little bit more than the average family. (Well, perhaps not a COPS family!)
The latest person brushing with fame is my sister’s husband. He’s a very ambitious man. Got his medical degree in Urology in the Navy and did a fellowship at Duke to learn a specific laproscopic technique. He left the Navy when his tour was done to take a very high income job in private practice in San Diego. Then was offered a teaching position at UCSD and eagerly took it.
Apparently, he was recently contacted by the San Diego Zoo. See, they had this dolphin they discovered had a kidney stone. (No, I have no idea HOW but she had stopped eating & interacting.) And they wanted my brother in law to use his laproscopic technique to break up the kidney stone so she could pass it. So off to the zoo he goes.
They couldn’t use anesthesia on the poor dolphin so they had 4 burly guys to hold her down while she bugled in pain. But he saved her life and the dolphin handlers think he’s a god. Even though in his first try they told him he was in her vagina instead of her urethra.
So he wrote a little paper about it. And he was invited to speak at another university. (This is exactly how my mother got famous in her circles.)
He’s telling us all about this and we’re suitably entranced by the story and then he drops the final bomb. The zoo called again.
See… they got this whale….