“Are you sure you can do all this?” Darlene asked me.
“Sure,” I answered. “Why not?”
“You didn’t sleep well last night. You were tossing and turning and moaning when you did fall asleep.”
“Yes, yesterday was hard but today will be better.”
“Are you sure?”
I nodded. “We almost lost a mother and her newborn yesterday. It was really difficult. I was the only one around to do anything. If they’d been in the wild, they’d be dead.”
“What happened?”
“The baby was breached and got halfway out but the mother couldn’t push the rest out. They were both going to drown. I had to reach in and pull the baby out.”
“Ouch!”
“Yes. It took me a while to do it and even longer to recover.”
Darlene wrapped her arms around me.
“Lana got there a few minutes later and loaded them all up to take to the re
