In the Shadow of the Lamp
“Sometimes things would seem quiet as peacetime and there wouldn’t be enough to keep us busy. Then the older nurses would get wool from the market and start knitting socks, and we’d all roll bandages and help with washing linens. Mrs. Drake told us stories, most of them funny, about her grandchildren and about nursing in London. She’d sometimes do it in a way that was meant to teach me things, without making it too obvious. In turn I’d sit patiently while she wound a ball of wool from the skein ...on my outstretched hands. I never knew my grandmas, but Mrs. Drake was what I always imagined they’d be like.We took turns in the laundry, set up as I’d heard it would be in a hut outside the hospital. There was another hospital about half a mile away that we didn’t know about when we first came. It was called the General Hospital, and had mostly convalescents. Only the Sisters of Mercy were sent over to work there. They didn’t want more than one female nurse per ward because the men were getting healthy.Every day it seemed Miss Nightingale found some other almost impossible challenge to overcome.MoreLess
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