The "sicker"
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The "sicker"
I've been reading through the CH website and notice it refers to a "Health Centre" which has five beds for ill people.
Is the "health centre" the same building as the Infirmiry in my days ? If so, why only five beds - there used to be around ten cubicles and two wards on the upper floors.
The infirmiry is/was such a large building - what's it all used for now ?
Is the "health centre" the same building as the Infirmiry in my days ? If so, why only five beds - there used to be around ten cubicles and two wards on the upper floors.
The infirmiry is/was such a large building - what's it all used for now ?
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Oh yes, only once, in my first term - and I got flu bad ! I ended up in the sicker for an extra two days after the end of term. I was well pleased as you might imagine.Scone Lover wrote:Thats a very good point James. Going by age, you were two years ahead of me. Did you ever volunteer for the Dr Hoskins flu jabs?
I managed to avoid another stay until my very last term at CH but by then it wasn't too much of a chore as I was more interested in the nurses. I remember one evening the young nurse asking me if I would go upstairs and see if there was anything amiss as she had heard a strange noise. She was too frightened to go up but she told me I was "very brave". I just wasn't brave enough at that age to do any more than accept the cup of coffee she made me and some biscuits !
Do you remember the long queues along the corridor to see Doc Hoskins every morning ? It was a good way to get off first period if you hadn't done your prep.
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DavebytheSea wrote:That's because some of the Maine A OBs are relics of a bygone age.Mid A 15 wrote:I went back for a Maine A reunion in May and part of it is the museum.
very sharp David! I do feel like an old relic at the moment. I think you've given me your virtual cold except it isn't virtual.
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My cold is the sort that would have landed me in the Sicker. Perhaps too, Dr "Tommy" Scott with his invariable regimen of starvation diet and penicillin injections thrice daily for all ills would have had me cured by now!
Alas, my membranes still ooze uncontrollably and, it seems, I have infected nearly everyone on the forum. Those who had it from me in its early stages are now well on the road to recovery.
Alas, my membranes still ooze uncontrollably and, it seems, I have infected nearly everyone on the forum. Those who had it from me in its early stages are now well on the road to recovery.
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Was Tommy there in your days, David ?DavebytheSea wrote:My cold is the sort that would have landed me in the Sicker. Perhaps too, Dr "Tommy" Scott with his invariable regimen of starvation diet and penicillin injections thrice daily for all ills would have had me cured by now!
Alas, my membranes still ooze uncontrollably and, it seems, I have infected nearly everyone on the forum. Those who had it from me in its early stages are now well on the road to recovery.
Yikes ! He must have done all his 'time' at Horsham as he was still there when I left in 63 !
He scared the hell out of some people, but when I was in the Sicker after a couple of bee-stings, courtesy of Rip Kirby, (the discovery of my allegy to bee stings), I found him a lovely humane guy ! 2 bee stings and a whole week in the Infirmary. Wow !
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He was there when I started too John. I reckon he retired about 1968. Hoskins (another OB) then took over.J.R. wrote:Was Tommy there in your days, David ?DavebytheSea wrote:My cold is the sort that would have landed me in the Sicker. Perhaps too, Dr "Tommy" Scott with his invariable regimen of starvation diet and penicillin injections thrice daily for all ills would have had me cured by now!
Alas, my membranes still ooze uncontrollably and, it seems, I have infected nearly everyone on the forum. Those who had it from me in its early stages are now well on the road to recovery.
Yikes ! He must have done all his 'time' at Horsham as he was still there when I left in 63 !
He scared the hell out of some people, but when I was in the Sicker after a couple of bee-stings, courtesy of Rip Kirby, (the discovery of my allegy to bee stings), I found him a lovely humane guy ! 2 bee stings and a whole week in the Infirmary. Wow !
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