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Thread #68747 Message #1669546
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
15-Feb-06 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Cupid connects, thanks to doctor
An Everett urologist helps his patient pop the question after kidney stone surgery.
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It was a first for Everett urologist Dr. Gary Stack, playing cupid in the recovery room.
The patient, Delancey Woods, had asked for a little help surprising his girlfriend.
Stack walked into a room early Tuesday morning at Providence Everett Medical Center's Pacific Campus to brief Woods on having his kidney stones removed. Woods asked, "Can you do something for me?"
He pulled out a ring box and asked if Stack would help surprise his girlfriend. He had planned to propose on Valentine's Day before the kidney stone procedure was scheduled.
His girlfriend, Linda Hinen, wouldn't suspect his plan if he popped the question in the recovery room, Woods said.
Stack agreed, taking the ring box and putting it in his locker.
Later, when Woods was in the recovery room, Stack walked in shaking a small plastic specimen container with an orange screw top.
"Do you want to see your (kidney) stone?" Stack asked.
Woods, 40, turned to his girlfriend and asked if she wanted to see it.
Hidden inside was a rock, all right - a white-gold engagement ring.
"Linda Marie, will you marry me?" Woods asked.
Gazing at Woods, still dressed in his hospital gown and hooked to monitoring equipment, Hinen quipped, "I don't know. You're not down on your knee."
Recovery room nurses, tipped to the surprise, burst into applause when they heard Hinen, 48, say "yes" to the proposal.
"Every nurse in the hospital recovery room knew, but not me," Hinen said.
Woods had secretly phoned Hinen's family Monday evening to tell them of the plan.
The couple, who have been together almost four years and live near Bothell, were all smiles as they walked out of the hospital Tuesday afternoon. Caught up in the excitement of the moment, they said it was too early to talk about their wedding plans.
"Who would have thought?" Hinen wondered aloud.
"Me!" Woods retorted.
"I always tell him you gotta be pretty quick to pull one over on me," Hinen said. "Well, he got me."