Some clouds have a golden lining

Complications had set in, the baby wouldn’t turn, the health centre, come maternity unit, while warm and friendly were ill equipped for such emergencies and had arranged transportation to the nearest suitably equipped hospital.

The student nurse had been a soothing companion during the 2hr ambulance ride from the comforting homely 4-bed ward of the local maternity unit to the uninviting dimly lit cold surroundings that at this dark hour unnervingly resembled a concentration camp, set out in the wilds no one and nothing for miles, no one to hear the flesh tearing screams unleashed before birth or dawns early light.

Accompanied by the ambulance driver and student nurse I apprehensively waddled along the seemingly endless corridor the ceilings and walls deathly grey in colour with a 6 inch black rubberised border crawling up the walls from the floor. We stopped abruptly when an agitated voice echoed from the shadows getting closer with every word keeping time to slap of each footstep on cold v

After breakfast we were returned to the pampering comfort of the longed for small maternity unit, leaving behind the horrific, pathetic fears, of a young mum to be. Announcing only the wise words of the midwife regarding the storks nip birthmark.

Try as I might to retain it, water started to trickle uncontrollably down the inside of my leg and was forming a mirror-like puddle at my feet. Only the ambulance driver and I were aware of what was happening to me at that point, but neither of us dared to interrupt the senior nurse who was now in full swing dishing out the verbal punishment she felt due the young nurse and her seniority permitted.

Some topics in this essay:
, Niagara Falls, Shell’ Fresh, Mum Tears, None Peters’, Peter Panic, Garden Shelley’s, Mum-to-be Declared, student nurse, maternity unit, storks nip, nip birthmark, storks nip birthmark, slivering whoosh body, ambulance driver, senior nurse, whoosh body, stages labour, slivering whoosh, elderly midwife,