I volunteer at the hospice where my mum died. It might sound cheesey but the staff were so kind to to her that I do it to give something back. I claim that I save lives there , but actually I’m a trolley dolly dashing about serving dinners, tea and biscuits or jelly and ice cream to patients and visitors.
Last week the hospice housekeeper asked me to check on the health of the flowers in the wards which I was happy to do. I stepped into Bay One, there were four patients in there, two were watching TV, one was reading and the other dozing. After clocking the flowers which were in a sorry state I called back over my shoulder to the housekeeper “They are all dead in here !”
Alarmed Nurses and Doctors appeared from nowhere. I stepped outside to bang my thoughtless, big-gobbed head on the wall, and I am booked on a (not optional) course next week about how to treat patients with sensitivity.
I’m on my second chance there already because last year I told a dead patient she looked well and insisted she had a cup of tea.
Oh dear god, that made me laugh. Don’t the doctors and nurses have gallows humour? Thought it would be a prerequisite of the job…
Hi Jane, probably they do with one another but I’m just a clod foot in mouth jelly server ! Anna May
This is the perfect April Fool’s blog!
I laughed so hard I made that funny snorting noise.
Debbie, I can cure that snort with a nice bowl of jelly and ice cream
Anna May x
Oh my God! That is so funny. True?!
Hi there Nuala,
I wish I could say it wasn’t true but there were witnesses ……blush.
Anna May