“I’m giving you twelve hours,” I overhear the consultant tell the registrar, “to investigate the mother’s condition. I’m scheduling the anesthetist for twelve hours’ time to perform a cesarean.” A short non-fiction story in Family First's special "Before the Gates Close" theme section.
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“I’m giving you twelve hours” I overhear the consultant tell the registrar “to investigate the mother’s condition. I’m scheduling the anesthetist for twelve hours’ time to perform a cesarean.” He glances at his watch. “That means at three-twenty in the morning.”
My mouth is parched and dry. “Can I please have a drink?”
The midwife shakes her head. “Not now. Just in case they need to operate immediately.”
“You’re scaring me” I tell her with a half-smile trying to keep my tone nonchalant to keep up the façade of calm self-control.
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