I was allocated 10 patients – nine in the main ward and one in the side room. In the side room there was a woman who was 18 weeks’ pregnant who had suffered pregnancy loss. As the sun rose on my night shift I had failed the woman in the side room. Instead, I return to the tiny lifeless baby and make up what small keepsakes I can for the woman in the side room. The woman in the side room has never left my mind.

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2019 15:22 UTC