Shaken to the Core
“Now Golden Gate Park looked like a tent city. People huddled in the army tents, seeking refuge from the cool wind, while others had built shelters using sheets, blankets, and the odd piece of furniture they had saved from their homes.
As they strode past rows of tents, Kate searched the faces for anyone she might know.
People stared back with blank expressions. One woman, rocking her baby in her arms, met her gaze and smiled. The baby was completely still. Its eyes were closed, and its skin had... a bluish tint.
Oh Lord! Is it…?
Lucy gave her a grim nod.
Bile rose in Kate’s throat. She swallowed it back down as they entered one of the tents with a big red cross.
Chaos immediately engulfed them. Doctors were bent over blood-soiled operating tables that had been improvised using sawhorses and doors or shutters. Nurses with dark shadows beneath their eyes hurried from cot to cot.
One of them saw Lucy and hurried over. “Dr. Sharpe! We’re running out of morphine. We don’t have anything left to give them for pain.”MoreLess
As they strode past rows of tents, Kate searched the faces for anyone she might know.
People stared back with blank expressions. One woman, rocking her baby in her arms, met her gaze and smiled. The baby was completely still. Its eyes were closed, and its skin had... a bluish tint.
Oh Lord! Is it…?
Lucy gave her a grim nod.
Bile rose in Kate’s throat. She swallowed it back down as they entered one of the tents with a big red cross.
Chaos immediately engulfed them. Doctors were bent over blood-soiled operating tables that had been improvised using sawhorses and doors or shutters. Nurses with dark shadows beneath their eyes hurried from cot to cot.
One of them saw Lucy and hurried over. “Dr. Sharpe! We’re running out of morphine. We don’t have anything left to give them for pain.”MoreLess
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