My cliff hanger

So do you like the way I left my last post with a total cliff hanger? That birth just may have killed me (cue the horror movie music). I don't know though, the Lord works in mysterious ways and this may just have been one of them. I had a mom call me on a Fri morning to report she was in labor with her water possibly broken. She then proceeded to labor on and off until her delivery on Mon morning. Not quite as bad as it sounds, she had several breaks in there where the labor stopped and she was able to get a good bit of rest, but unfortunately I was unable to. In that entire time I probably got 8-12 hrs sleep. When I got home from the birth Mon, I got Joseph off to school and the rest of the kids going for the day and then completely crashed. I managed to get maybe one-two hrs of sleep in before I got a phone call from another soon-to-be due mom and friend and ended up dragging myself out of bed to take care of the kids and whatever else around the house. By 3:00 I was lying down on the couch almost completely out of it again and crashed hard when I finally made it to bed that night. It took me several days to recover. Flash forward a few days and I noticed on Facebook that a former client of mine had delivered. She had her baby at 12:30 A.M. Tue morning. That's right, TUESDAY morning. If we hadn't announced that we were moving and she hadn't been worried that I wouldn't get back in time for the birth (I intended to drive back for the three births I had lined up) she wouldn't have changed to a different practitioner. If she hadn't changed, then Mon night I would have gotten called out to her birth and I wouldn't have left to come home until maybe 4:30 or so Tue morning. Her home is maybe a 40min drive out of town. Can you imagine me making that drive back? I truly feel that I wouldn't have made it safely. With the degree of fatigue I was dealing with, there is every possibility I would have ended up in a ditch on the side of a lonely highway (all highways in ND are lonely, there just aren't that many people in the state to keep them hugely busy). Who knows why we felt prompted to try to buy this house in Montana, but I'm willing to bet that was one of the reasons.