Название: The Midwife’s Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain’s Longest Serving Midwives
Автор: Linda Fairley
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780007446315
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Lesley opened Mrs Pearlman’s mouth gently and inserted the false teeth effortlessly, before flashing me a sympathetic smile. ‘There now, she looks better already,’ she said. ‘Once, I had to lay out a man whose body was cold and rigor mortis had started to set in. It took the strength of two of us to prise open his jaw and squeeze his dentures back in place!’
I smiled gamely, and Lesley kept talking. ‘How about we pop a little label on her toe?’
Lesley picked up the brown label upon which she wrote ‘Moran Pearlman’ and her dates of birth and death. I calculated she had been seventy-six years of age, and was glad she had lived a long life. ‘Here, Linda, this needs tying around her big toe,’ Lesley said, placing the label in my hand and giving me a nudge of encouragement as I got to work.
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