Hospital Visits.

I am sure that there are not many people who will read this article who have not visited one of their family in hospital. At the present moment I happen to be someone who is visiting a close relative who had to suddenly go to hospital in an emergency .I am glad to say he is now on the mend thanks to the medical and nursing staff for whom I have great admiration.

Sometimes one feels that it is as bad for those at home worrying as it is for those in the hospital, especially coming back to an empty house in the evenings after an afternoon visit.

When I was young I joined the Navy as a VAD. The war was still on, though nearly over. I had always wanted to be a nurse. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the nursing. I was stationed in a sick bay attached to a navel training establishment. Any serious cases were sent to the main navel hospital.

Here is a link to VAD information.

We are lucky to be living in the early twenty first century as medicine has made such terrific advances.

Polly.

Photograph was sourced from this link here.

Wonderful Photography!

Dear friends I wanted to bring to your notice the fact that we have some very talented Photographers here amongst us at Millman Street Community Centre. Above is an example of George Robertson's work and I am sure you will all agree that he has a very good eye for composition and lighting. The photograph is a group of staff and members who were visiting Ham House in Richmond-upon-Thames outside London in July 2006.

If you wish you can visit the Ham House website here.

by Charles Molloy

My last job.

My last job was with an agency called 'Country Cousins'. For those of you who haven't heard of it, here is a brief description of what it all consisted of. The agency is based in Horsham and on applying to join one had to visit them and discuss if one was quite fit and able to look after mainly the elderly who wished to have help for as long as they wished and we the helpers wished to visit them. I did the job for about five years, and in all I suppose looked after about one hundred people mostly women and a few men. I only used to go away for about a week or ten days at a time, as I had a husband fretting away at home! I looked after some very nice and interesting people, two of them were the same age as me. One of them was having a breakdown owing to the fact of having looked after an acholic husband, until he had to go into a home, and the other lady had had a stroke which left her slightly disabled.
I could write about many more people. I looked after some charming and grateful and some not so charming or grateful!! It was the luck of the draw as one didn't know what lay in store until one arrived in their house!

If you would like to visit the Country Cousins website click on this link here:

Written by Polly