Via e-mail from Betty Barbara:
Or is it really the wild?
The setting is St Agnes Hospital. The poor patient was yours truly, Betty Barbara. The occasion: Betty Barbara has knee replacement surgery.
The surgery went well, and I am back home, hobbling around, and trying to catch up on TUJD.
The particular Betty Book was serendipitous--I asked Minjheer van der Tarheelin to bring in the camera and a book so that I could take the picture and he chose the one where the RDD's dear mother has leg difficulties!
Barb
Dear Betty Barbara,
Greater love hath no Minjheer, than he bring a Betty Neels and a camera. Mijnheer van der Tarheelin? Love, love, love the name.
Betty Neels did love her orthopaedic problems. Doesn't Baroness van Duyren (Tangled Autumn) have a dicky leg too? Then there's Esmeralda, she of the gimpy foot...and Jake (Midnight Sun's Magic) who's not about to let a cast get in the way of walking down the aisle.
Wishing you a very speedy recovery,
The Founding Bettys
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Betty Barbara. May your recovery involve nothing dicky or gimpy, with a minimum of casting!
ReplyDeleteAnd may your Promise of Happiness come true!
Possibly the best Betty in the Wild picture to date! I love your goals: Pain control and safe ambulation--I think I'll make that mine for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for your recovery!
Is that a male nurse? Were they expecting Betty Barbara to "give trouble"?
ReplyDeleteBetty Barbara -- Best wishes for a speedy and, yes, pain-controlled (or even pain free!) recovery.
ReplyDeleteI love the board -- what a change from nursing in The Great Betty's day when the patient knew next to nothing and everyone thought that was just fine!
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteThanks to all for the good wishes. They are much appreciated.
I had fun, of a sort, listing in my mind the ways modern hospital management is like/not like the Betty Neels version. I never had the same nurse twice--one shift and they rotated on. Scott was one of a long list. The nurses administered MOST of the meds, but the Techs did all the routine taking of vitals. The dressing changing was done by a member of the Orthopaedics Dept. Talk about of division of duty! My surgeon stopped by several times, but always alone--no entourage!
Betty Magdalen--yes, the lovely white board is a great idea. Alas, not everyone bothered writing in their name, or even changing the date!
But every room had a hand sanitizer dispenser and EVERYONE hit it as they left the room--Every Single Time. Now that I really liked to see.
Betty Barbara -
ReplyDeleteOnce again, wishing you a speedy recovery.
Your mention of the doctor's entourage reminded me of past hospital stays.
I was around 23 when I had my gall bladder removed - back in those days, it was major surgery - meaning three or four days in the hospital post-op. Evidently it was a teaching hospital - the doctor came to visit with at least half a dozen student docs. It seemed like more. Very possibly it was. I was a very popular patient - being young and reasonably good-looking. I had Dr. van der Stevejinck bring me pictures of our two kids - partly because I missed them, and partly to ward off lonely housemen.
Doesn't Every Single Time sound like a Neels title?
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