Fight Club
Our worlds get smaller and things that never became important before become important now. I was desperate to get back to work last night. Desperate to have something of purpose to do People to talk to Characters to bounce off. Social isolating cannot happen when patients need turning and made comfortable The physical contact of colleagues are ties that bind. Nurse humour cannot be beaten for sheer, undiluted gall On one of her last hospital admissions my mother witnessed a brief meeting at the nurses station when an over tired support worked hissed at two very harassed staff nurses " I've just found another one Dead!" Whereafter all three burst into brief and somewhat hysterical laughter In my mind tiredness, night nurse hysteria and overwork is often the reciepie for a good laugh. I once had to take charge at the resuscitation of a man with severely contracted legs. He had effectively sat in a wheelchair for months before his admission without benefit of lying down sup...
