our load right now is insane. We had five births in the past 25 hours. But midwives and naturopathic doctors don't tend to marry investment bankers, they tend to marry bartenders and contractors and botanical medicine specialists and other such people who have never qualitied for unemployment ever before and the state of WA is hopeful applications will be open to them by the 18th but in the meantime? Mortgages aren't being paid and women are freaking out and I have to figure out a way to keep seven people in their fucking houses and my wife's draws out of the business make her our number-four-highest-paid employee and when we can get masks? We're donating them to EMS and spreading them around to other birth centers that don't know how to not piss off their medical reps because we used to be fishing boats competing for the catch but right now we're a fleet against the tide and every time we have to send someone out to get checked that's another doctor's office where they can catch something so all of a sudden we own ultrasound we can't fucking bill for and we need to look at performing non-stress tests we can't fucking bill for and in order to separate our peds from our maternity we're looking at renting emergency office space we can't fucking bill for and me? I've spent the past two weeks reviewing the resume of every single dental assistant that got laid off so that we can shift some of our staff to other birth centers and lemme tell ya.

It fucking sucks.