Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 3

Freya’s Bribery Threat “Thank you Donald I’ll be making a change over from night shift supervision to day shift and we have a gap day and a half to adjust sleeping patterns between the next day shift, so, I have this Thursday off and wonder if that would be a good time for you and Brenna? I should be ready by 9am.” “I need to … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 3

Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 2

Brenna Cartwright Returns Two weeks later Raina commenced her shift and scanned records to see who’d been admitted in her absence and their medical history. She gasped as she saw the name Brenna Cartwright and wondered what had bought this girl back for treatment. Had they missed something before that was vital for her health? They had very sophisticated methods of assessing health problems now … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 2

Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 1

War and Rescue Raina Novak sat at the nursing station in the children’s ward filling in required documentation on each child in the ward on computer. She’d just accompanied the doctor making his rounds and needed to input his instructions into the hospital ward database. While she was reasonably competent in English now after six months at this London hospital there were occasions when she … Continue reading Raina Gets a New Family – Chapter 1

Four Stages of Life – Chapter 4

Ashramas It was a national holiday and crowds were out in Surat to celebrate. Aashi and her mother had been to the temple and were returning home by auto rickshaw when they observed one of the chowkidars at the security office checking people into and out of the gated community. He’d prevented a disheveled woman clutching a small suitcase from entry and she was wailing … Continue reading Four Stages of Life – Chapter 4