The Watercress Girls (2011)
“She was paid thirty cents an hour for basic domestic duties, and Mattie insisted that she should save her earnings for the future.
‘Perhaps you will decide on a career in nursing,’ Mattie said hopefully.
‘I don’t think I’m cut out for that, Mom. Oh, I’m real glad to be helping out the way I do now, though I hate being on bedpan duty – and the patients say I make ’em smile.’ ‘Haven’t you any idea what you might do, after this?’ ‘Wait and see, eh?’ Megan knew, of course, what she intended... to do. She just wasn’t sure that her mom and dad would agree with her choice.
The nurses sang favourite carols and the few patients who had not been able to get home or had no family to care for them, sat up in bed, or in chairs with a blanket over their knees, to open the presents the hospital staff had delivered. The cleaners hovered in the background, to watch. They would collect up the torn wrapping paper and generally tidy the ward before going off duty.MoreLess
‘Perhaps you will decide on a career in nursing,’ Mattie said hopefully.
‘I don’t think I’m cut out for that, Mom. Oh, I’m real glad to be helping out the way I do now, though I hate being on bedpan duty – and the patients say I make ’em smile.’ ‘Haven’t you any idea what you might do, after this?’ ‘Wait and see, eh?’ Megan knew, of course, what she intended... to do. She just wasn’t sure that her mom and dad would agree with her choice.
The nurses sang favourite carols and the few patients who had not been able to get home or had no family to care for them, sat up in bed, or in chairs with a blanket over their knees, to open the presents the hospital staff had delivered. The cleaners hovered in the background, to watch. They would collect up the torn wrapping paper and generally tidy the ward before going off duty.MoreLess
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