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    Mind The wee Places Nurse.
    Mind The wee Places Nurse.
    Mind The wee Places Nurse.
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    Mind The wee Places Nurse.

    By Mary Helen Gill

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    An interesting read,with a touch of humour,and an insight into what it was like to be a nurse in the Forties. This is a true story told from the Author's own experience.
    Should not be missed in particular by those who want to be a nurse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Helen Gill
    Release dateMay 2, 2013
    ISBN9781301969937
    Mind The wee Places Nurse.
    Author

    Mary Helen Gill

    I am an elderly widow ( 82) I took a short story course when I was younger and obtained a Diploma from the School of Authorship in London. I have never tried to sell my work untill now, and I made up a book on Microsoft Publisher, which I must say looked good, and I received a write up concerning it from the Editor of the DPH Society in Dunning Perthshire.I am currently busy converting this to Microsoft Word - hence the delay. It had text boxes.I am just a determined old granny who has had a varied life. I came through the traumas of World War 2, I have nursed many adults and children in Scotland with the old dreaded Fevers. I have served in the WRAF as a Dental Assistant, and tried my hand at Bisley rifle range whilst there.I emmigrated to S.AFrica in 1968 with my husband and 3 children, where I continued with yet another hobby...Oil Painting.I have however reverted back to the writing to see if I can leave behind a legacy of some sort.and at the same time add something to my meagre pension.

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      Mind The wee Places Nurse. - Mary Helen Gill

      Mind the Wee Places Nurse

      Introduction

      This is a true story about life as a student nurse in the 1940’s

      Present day nursing does not even compare with what nurses had to do in the old days, and the incidents written in this book say it all.

      Written By

      Mary Helen Gill

      **...**

      Mind the wee places Nurse

      Mary Helen Gill

      Copyright© Mary Helen Gill 2013

      Published at Smashwords

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      Mary Helen Gill asserts the moral right,

      To be identified as the Author of this work.

      ISBN 9781301969937

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

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      This EBook may not, be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this EBook and did not purchase it or, it was not, purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

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      Table of Contents

      Mind_the_wee_places_nurse

      Introduction

      Copyright Page

      Foreword

      chapter1_Belvidere_here_I_come

      chapt2_the_scarlet_fever_ward

      chapt3_drpatricks_lectures

      chapt4_night_duty_and

      chapt5_saving_a_young_life

      chapt6ref:_my_naughty_friend

      chapt7_end_of_my_1st_year

      Chapter8:My religious Encounter

      Chapter9:The End Of Year Dance

      chapt10_my_vacation

      end Notes

      About The Author

      Forthcoming New Editions

      Foreword

      Back in 1942, when I was 12 years old, my high School form teacher asked me to stand up and tell him what I had decided I was going to do when I leave school. I replied that I planned to be a writer or an artist. He told me, that with those two choices I would have to attend College after Leaving the High school -Then I will have to decide on something else I replied, and sat down, with a somewhat dejected look on my face. When I noted the despondent look on Mr.Tait’s face, I thought about what he had said and decided to try hard and make one of my goals at least. Finally after a few health set backs, I managed to Register at Belvedere Fever Hospital in London Road Glasgow, and the day on which I turned 17, I proudly turned up there with my suitcase to begin my training. I had also taken a correspondence course on Short Story Writing, and having obtained a Diploma.

      I carried on with that and my Art as a sideline. The following story is about the Seriousness of becoming a nurse, and the various obstacles and fears met during training, but at the same time, the fun moments and then, the sadness when a patient dies. Having the art, of always staying on form, and the initiative to take over, and perform in an emergency. Belvedere Fever hospital no longer exists and I believe, most of the buildings have been demolished. Some Web stories relate tales of hauntings. –That would not surprise me in the least, for many people old and young drew their last breath there in high Fever.

      Preface

      My room was top right of the old building facing east, and I loved it. The ground floor left front rooms had, been reserved for the Matron and assistant’s offices and the chief Medical resident Dr. McKenzie. On the right were the grand room we used for meetings, and nurse’s sick rooms. Someone posted stories recently on the web of it being haunted. I was shocked when I read this, but in a way, I suppose there could be something to it. I saw many deaths here. The first one being an old man whose head was completely bald. I was passing by the closed screens when a hand popped out and grabbed me by the shoulder. A senior Nurse ordered me to go and fetch a bowl of warm water and help to sponge the body, which did freak me out somewhat. The body, had not, yet become stiff, but was a lifeless - chalky white elderly man with open vacant eyes.

      My second experience of death was in the female pneumonia ward, where woman

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