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Paddy Gets A Wake Up Visit Part Three
Date: 8/2/2016, Categories: Mature, Author: WobieTide, Rating: 1, Source: LushStories
Attending to the medical needs of the residents of the retirement home I lived in at the time was a resident nurse, who made two rounds of the apartments each day, one at about ten in the morning and the other around seven in the afternoon. She was a rather surly lady in her mid forties given to bouts of complaining about how she had been unfairly overlooked for promotion in the mainstream health care profession for years. She blamed this flagrant oversight of her obvious talents by the-powers-that-be for her gradual professional decline to the incongruous position of 'resident nurse' in an old folk's home. A position she clearly thought beneath her while choosing to ignore the fact that, rather than occupying a derisory post in a run down, under funded, state owned old folks home, what she actually held was a well paid job in a private retirement home funded entirely by the residents and their families, with adequate funds and backup provided, to enable her to provide the necessary care to her patients. She clearly felt she should have been matron at The Coombe or some other similarly prestigious hospital in the country and always wore her white nurses coat pompously adorned with an impressive assortment of medical insignia of dubious significance and even more dubious origin on the lapels and shoulders with the requisite stethoscope draped around her neck. As well as making her twice daily rounds, she was on call in case of emergencies, and each resident of the home had a ...