Richard
My mobile bleeps: James.
Landed. at airport now. home approx 90 mins. Tell Mitch he’s keen
Elizabeth grins at me as I tap in the reply.
don’t go home. come city hospital. Mitch in labour
There’s a short pause…
Elizabeth holds up her hand, counting down silent fingers: Five… Four... Three... Two…
… and my mobile bleeps again.
When M go into labour?
3 hrs doc and midwife say early but all normal all good
With you ASAP K got taxi flying on wings of fire
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The corridor is painted the required institutional off-white, scraped black in long stripes at trolley-bed height. The lighting is the compulsory harsh fluorescent white. One strip blinks on and off. Signs point off down apparently identical corridors: Intensive Care… Reception… A & E… Chapel and Prayer Room… Radiolog
