here was that part of the story with the joke in it.
It's actually a very silly joke, one that follows a hapless set of parents as they go through the neonatal ward at a hospital from one progressively more disabled infant to another. With each baby, the mother says something like, "Well, at least he has arms to hold me" (in the case of the baby that was born without legs). It gets worse and worse, until they finally end up looking at a baby that's just one giant eye. And then the mother says, "Well, at least it can see the beauty of the world." And the doctor says, "It's blind."