Monday, 26 September 2011

The witching hour and other terrors

Prill used to call this the "witching hour".. Not sure where she got that from but only that it was that hour before the dawn where everything is a bit phantasmagorical. I vaguely remember " the hour of the wolf".. Same thing ? Ing ar

Ingmar Bergman? Hard to blog on an iPhone!

So..meanwhile back at the ranch...
Did I mention how totally relieved I was to be released from the hospital yesterday? I felt I had spent the last few days at the Marciat Di San Vit or maybe the Chinese market in hong kong.. Or thebazaar in Istanbul. Seriously. D6-ONC. Is one busy place. The nurses are scrambling. The alarms ringing everywhere . That's because it seems every time there's a kink in someone's Iv tube, the alarm rings.. And rings..and rings. Louder!
I felt like a real grouch and nag asking for them to come and turn it off. At one point there werethree going Off in my room at different intervals. A synchopated nightmare midday.
I am notsure why or how they schedule the nurses but I was there thurs to Sunday and never had the same nurse twice. And we more often than not had 3 different nurses for our room of three. apparently they work on a pool system so that the severity of the patients are née safe Alan Ed . Itdidnt feel that was to me. But I have to say there was not a bad nurse in the bunch. It wS also the UN of nursing experiences. I am pretty sure almost every continent was well represented.Saturday night was a beautiful Nigerian woman named Rita. I thought nothing of it when it suddenly hit me that it was Rita Leddy herself.. My dear friend and also a nurse. As Rita 2 flashed her brilliant smile, I could almost hear Rita 1 chuckling. The whimsy would have been just up her alley.

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