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fifteen minutes. Finally, the young

nurse returned.

“I asked, ‘Didn’t you hear the

buzzer?’ She said she had, but she

hadn’t worried about it because she

knew I was nowhere near ready. She

took her time checking me, and when

she did, she yelled, ‘The baby is almost

here!’ She then ran to the door and

yelled down the hall for help.

“Meanwhile, the young nurse

decided she should give me some gas to

help with the pain. I told her there

wasn’t time for that, but she insisted.

She got the mask and turned on the gas.

In her state of anxiety, she felt

everything was going too slow. She