time passes by= got to get out there

[krisandkev]

Last night attended the Maryborough Hospital nurses reunion. For the cutting of the cake, they asked nurses who trained in the forties and fifties to come out the front.  About 15 of them.  These ladies were incredible, telling their stories and adventures had nursing, some of them in third world countries.  Some in their late eighties.  I take my hat off to them.  One nurse spoke of how she was the first nurse in Qld to be allowed to live out of the nurses quarters.  She had gotten pregnant, married, had her baby, and had to return to live in the quarters and be in at 2200 each night, to be allowed to return to work.  Her husband would bring the baby up to be breastfed, and got into trouble for hanging around the nurses quarters.  She decided to resign once her husband found work, and then they decided to take it to the hospital board to get permission to live off the hospital grounds!!  Amazing!!
 
Looking around at all of these people, some fairly old male nurses too, just brought it home that we would really have to get out there and have fun for as long as we can!!

Kris

[speewa158]

Well Said . lf you can arrange 2 or 3 meals a day & somewhere safe & warm to sleep at night what more could you ask for as long as you are healthy. TRAVEL & get going as the future is anybodys guess . Siese The Day 

[WaituiRob]

I  lived in nurse`s quarters in the 60`s and there were some strange rules then also. A bit of creeping through ground floor windows after curfew as well.

We`re heeding your advice and setting off tomorrow for a month, heading to Southern Nsw, into Vic as far as Bright, back through The Snowy Mountains and up The South Coast. We attempted this trip earlier this year but had to return home after two days as most of our intended destinations were flooded. We`ll be dryer this time now that we`ve gone to the darkside and have our pop top for comfort 

Cheers, Robyn.