A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story Of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - And Survival - Plot & Excerpts
My pregnancy was relatively uncomplicated, but I was monitored closely throughout on account of the medical history of my weak heart. Once my contractions quickened and David took me into hospital, my heart was under considerable strain, and what followed was twenty-two hours in labour. Finally the consultant came in, examined my readings, and declared that I had to have an emergency Caesarean section. The baby was wanting to be born, but I just didn’t have the strength to push. Within two minutes I was whisked out of the room – David would tell me later that he had wondered if he would see me again. He was by no means sure I would pull through, and no one explained to him precisely what was happening.From that point I remember little or nothing, but Ollie was born at 8.14 a.m. on 23 July 1986. As David told it, he was left pacing, anxiously, not allowed to see me, until the nurse came out and put Ollie, swaddled and crying, into his arms with the words, ‘This is your son.’ David found himself thinking: Please, Jude, pull through, I can’t do this alone.
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