A Very Special Midwife by Gill Sanderson

Author:Gill Sanderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783753659
Publisher: Accent Press
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

On the ward Jenny had been given sleeping pills to enable her to sleep. Now she had to manage without. And she knew it was a good idea, she didn't want to become addicted to them. She hardly slept at all and when she did sleep she was tormented by memories of the last few microseconds before the accident. She thought she could see the bonnet of the car bearing down on her, feel that first crunch, hear the sound of bones snapping. Then she woke, moaning to herself, her body covered in sweat.

Mike came in early next morning, brought her a small glass of orange juice. He frowned down at her, put his hand on her forehead.

'How did you sleep? Was the bed comfortable?'

She was too tired to try to lie to him. 'The bed is fine. But I just... I kept on remembering the accident and then I was afraid again.'

'Jenny, you've had a very serious accident. Your mind took a beating as well as your body; you're suffering from post-traumatic stress. It will pass but perhaps you should speak to Mr Spenser about it.'

'Perhaps you're right, we'll see.'

Sometimes she had visions, nightmares in the day while she was awake. She thought of herself, her friends being involved in the worst of accidents. And tears would come to her eyes, her body would shiver and she just knew that the worst things in the world were going to happen. They never did. But she knew they would.

One afternoon she was sitting in the sitting room in her wheelchair, trying to read. She was keeping a vague eye on Sam. Sue was in the kitchen. And suddenly there was a vision of what might have happened if she hadn't got to Sam in time. She saw the little body rocking into the air, the small bones shattering and the blood pouring.

'Sam, Sam, come here,' she moaned.

Obediently, he came. She pulled him onto her lap, wrapped her arms around him and tried to take strength from the fact that he was alive. And that was how Sue found them five minutes later.

'Sam! Jenny, is he all right?'

Jenny lifted her anguished face. 'He's fine Sue, he's fine. He's a lovely little boy. But I just thought that he might have been hit by that car and he might have been hurt and it was so real that... that, Sue, I couldn't stand it.'

Fortunately Sue was a nurse; she could guess what Jenny was going through. And she was a mother too. So she knelt by the wheelchair, spread her arms around both Sam and Jenny.

'We'll all be well soon,' she whispered.

And slowly the stress passed.

'It's interesting how we've changed,' Mike said, three weeks after she'd moved into the house. 'When you moved in I used to worry all the time about how you'd manage. All I could think was that you'd had an accident, you were an invalid and I had to be careful not to make things worse. But now you're you again.

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