A V.A.D. in France.

  • Dent, Olive.
Date:
1917
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Credit: A V.A.D. in France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Possibly the journey to hospital has aggra- vated the poor boy's injuries, the jolting of car or carriage may have brought on a haemorrhage or has exhausted strength al- ready much enfeebled. More blankets and hot water bottles, the saline bag and the hypodermic needle play their part or, perhaps, after the consultation comes an immediate visit to the theatre, or perhaps. ... All you can do, sister, is to make him comfortable. A third of a grain of morphia. . . .*? Then follow some of the bitterest moments one is called upon to endure, —to feel an in- tensity of helpless pity, to chafe against a surging feeling of impotence, to watch, to wait and yet to do nothing, nothing of any telling value. One welcomes any little need of the patient's. One poor boy one night whispered, I don't know what I want. I seem to be slipping away, and at his request there were changed and changed again the pillows, the cushions, the position of the limb, the cradle, the bedclothes, his lips were moistened, his face wiped and then he spoke again.