When my wife and I originally heard the prank we both thought, here we go again. The media hounding the royals, just like they did with Princess Di. Both of us know what it is like working night shifts in pressure jobs. My wife still does being a Accident and Emergency Nurse. Me being a retired Police Officer I could tell you some stories that certain media get up to to get a story. One such I always remember is where a media person went to the house of a mother who had just lost her son, he had committed suicide after being wheel chair bound most of his life. This media person told the poor mother that the Police had sent her to get some pictures of inside the house. Naturally this was totally bull. She just wanted pictures for her newspaper article. How low was that! Although I am not one for the Royals, in fact I just do not get it at all, I still felt very sorry for them and in particular for the poor nurses because we knew what they would have to go through after the prank.
After the news of the suicide my wife posted the following on the FM radio's face book page.
'I am a nurse, and proud of it, I can imagine the stress that you people put on this poor nurse. All around the world, the media have a good old laugh, cos they got put thru by a night duty telephonist, to a night duty nurse. Tired, stressed, thinking she had important people on the phone, trying to be polite and helpful. On behalf of ALL the nurses in Australia- shame shame shame. I hope none of you need a nurse soon, but then again hang on , we are professionals and we do our job with integrity, I have nursed murderers and treated them with respect, so maybe even DJs will be treated ok in the future.'
Kevin (I am very proud of my wife.)
