Twelve Lessons by Kate Spencer

Author:Kate Spencer [Spencer, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-9927103-0-9
Publisher: The Lightworkers Academy
Published: 2013-11-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Blue Light Job

The ambulance seemed to take forever, and by the time they lifted Lizzie onto the stretcher she was unconscious. They gave her oxygen and, as the sirens blared, I held her hand and cried for myself, for her and for the baby she was losing. No matter what had transpired between her and Jay as my marriage had limped around its last lap, this was far more important.

She was rushed into theatre on arrival and, an hour and a half later, taken on to a ward in a private bay. I didn’t have contact details for her parents and I didn’t know if she would have wanted them to know anyway, so I was deliberately vague when asked for details.

I sat looking at her until I felt myself nodding off. Her face was as pale as the sheets on the bed and she had some sort of clip on her finger that was reading her pulse. There was a cannula in the back of her hand but no drip, and she had been catheterised. Her left ankle was bandaged. The nurse came in twice with tea for me and, when she collected the second empty cup and filled in Lizzie’s chart, she suggested I go home for the night.

“She’s not likely to be with it until the morning love, you’d do better getting some rest yourself and coming back then.”

“But what will you tell her when she wakes up and asks about the baby?”

“We’ll have to tell her the truth, love. That she is no longer pregnant.”

I nodded and leant over and kissed Lizzie’s forehead. She didn’t stir.

I made my way down the long corridors to the lift and then into the car park, past smokers corner. People were milling around in various emotional states, some carrying helium ‘it’s a girl’ balloons and wearing ear to ear smiles, and others linking arms and speaking in quiet voices and sighing. There was a pizza delivery boy carrying a large flat box with a can of coke on the top, a dog tied to the railings and someone on a mobile. Different experiences of the same human condition.

And then there was me. Bedraggled, hungry and knackered. It was early evening now and I had no idea where the day had gone. My head was pounding and I felt like at any moment I could burst into tears. My clothes had dried into a crumpled mess and I would have won the first prize on bad hair day. I couldn’t face waiting for the bus so I called a taxi and waited on the wall near the drop off bay. I looked like I needed to go to a bloody shelter so the driver probably wasn’t surprised in the least when I gave him the address. He probably thought poor cow’s been on the run all day. I felt like it.

I hoped there would be no one around, but wasn’t so lucky.

Sheila was the first one to see me and, after that, there was no escape.

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