Wires

It’s quite shocking to see someone you know hooked to intensive care. There’s dozens of machines all going beep and pumps at the ready. It’s exactly as what you’d see as if you were watching an episode of casualty. Occasionally one of the machines might flash and bing and you think you might need to grab someone but it’s all part and parcel here. There’s a student nurse on standby keeping close watch on a large monitor which keeps track of all the various machines that he’s plugged into. Entertainment is basic; there’s no view here apart from the fine nurses that are happy to chat to us about their shifts and studies; and they’re always keen to provide us with tea and coffee and some chairs to sit at. I think making tea and coffee must be the first ultimate test of nursing; if you can’t make one then you’re out.