RJ 11/01/1985 Friday
Today is the big day but I can’t go. It’s 3:15 and the gates at Rock In Rio have been open since noon. There are a lot of people already there. Today the show starts at 16:00. Jeison can only go at 4 so it will be packed by then. The singers today are:
Ney Matogrosso at 6:00, Erasmo Carlos at 7:30, Pepeu Gomes and Baby Consuelo at 9:00, Whitesnake at 10:30 hours, Iron Maiden at midnight and Queen at 1:30 am.
In the morning we went to hospital to visit Helena (Zeze’s friend). She had a cesarian arranged for today to deliver a boy (she had had the ultrasound already). We were worried as Helena is 37 years old and it’s her 3rd cesarian. Her belly was massive and pointy. Before we went (at around 10, we arranged to go with Rita and the birth was to be at 7 in the morning) Rita phoned Zeze to tell her how it had gone (Helena’s maid had phoned Rita telling her). Rita was telling Zeze and everything was fine, all of a sudden Zeze started crying. I thought Helena had died. And we were trying to grab the phone from Zeze and she wouldn’t let us have it. Then she put it down and said “Take it easy, it’s just that everyone was so stressed and when I heard everything was fine I expressed my joy with tears”. What a relief! Then Zeze, calmly, got changed, and we went up to Rita’s. Everyone was asleep, except for Rita of course! We went to hospital by taxi and met Valeria (Helena’s oldest daughter, 17 years old). We went to room 523, Panamericano Hospital, near Saens Pena Square.
Helena was a mess. Her stitches and her back hurt like hell. We went to the nursery on the 4th floor and on the way (it was Valeria, her boyfriend, Maira) Valeria said that the cesarian took 1/2 hour. When I stuck my nose to the nursery’s window I was tripping! It’s hard to explain the sensation I felt seeing all those little lives, I felt like I wanted to work in a place like that, to hold all those little creatures who don’t know what to expect from life. I saw three newborns arrive, all boys. I didn’t know newborn boys had such massive balls. Really red! They were mostly boys today and 3 girls. A dad managed to sneak in the-nursery, just after his baby had been born with the excuse to take some photos and took 3. Wagner just came here to say that Zeze phoned upstairs saying she is on her way home, why didn’t she ring here?. The doctor who had a face on him, started posing for the photos.
There were two incubators (the largest babies were in there), one of them was massive: 4,300 grams. On the other one was Helena’s son with 3,800 grams and 5lcm. I was born with 4,100 gm and was really hairy, looking like a month old baby (according to Zeze). Maira was born with 2,800 grams. I loved the newborns.
At night we went to Valeria’s (another one) who has a 10 month old baby, Rafael.