Comments on: waiting

By: Scarlet

Scarlet — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:46:53 +0000

I don’t like stout nurse either. Glad you gave her what for… patronising cow that she is.
Sx

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By: wendy

wendy — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:33:12 +0000

Welcome Zed! Nice to meet you and find your blog
Such a sad story about the elderly gent being humiliated. Scarey to think that people working in the caring services can be so mean in their actions. W

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By: Zed

Zed — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:15:27 +0000

I’ve never forgotten a nurse – not overworked, she was tucking another patient into bed – who refused to come to bring a bedpan to my friend who was old, dying, his left arm paralysed by a stroke. He called out that he couldn’t wait, she hunched her shoulders and turned away. Of course, he wet himself and she had to come and change his pyjamas and bedclothes. It would have been easier to give him the bottle. More importantly, it was a deliberate cruelty to a lovely old man who was humiliated by the incident.

It’s nothing to do with the recession, it was some years ago when the economy was booming, and she was in her 50s, well old enough to know much better.

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By: wendy

wendy — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:58:40 +0000

Hi Indigo, be reassured that there will be a happy ending – today I’m typing this with 2 hands w x

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By: Indigo Roth

Indigo Roth — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:10:24 +0000

Hey Wendy! Some people, who love their job but not the effort required to be professional, should never be allowed near the public, Especially the sick ones. I’m hoping for a happy ending. Indigo

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By: wendy

wendy — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:48:54 +0000

Kay, What a lovely show of support from the doctor! Unfortunately one of the side effects of the shock and pain was messing up my memory and I quickly forget stuff that I didn’t write down. I dudn’t write down that ladies stories – she filled our little cubicle with sunshine, laughter and gasps. I wish I could remember the details. We begged her to write her life story… but she wouldn’t put these stories in writting because of her respect for the people involved – even dead people….

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By: Kay G.

Kay G. — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:20:11 +0000

I had a stout nurse like that many years ago when I was in delivery. She stood, with arms folded, as I was shaking uncontrollably. When I heard my voice in amazement say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know why I am shaking so”…the Doctor SHOUTED at the stout nurse, “GET OVER HERE AND HELP ME”. But to me, he said in the most gentle voice, “Don’t worry, you are doing just what you are supposed to be doing.”
Nurse Rachett from “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, they do exist.

Tell us more about the lady who worked for Hammer Films, I would have milked her for every story she had!

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