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Real life is quite quiet at the moment – daughter in Australia and husband either asleep, eating or at work doesn’t make for a scintillating life! I called in at Marks & Spencer yesterday to buy food, and bought a rather nice dress off a sale rail for £12 – reduced from £49.50! And it looks pretty good on – so that’s the good news for the week so far!!
Oh, and I was teaching in tandem with my colleague who is a Urology Nurse Specialist yesterday. We were doing a study-day on Urinary Catheterisation, specifically of male patients. Poor M. was shaking at the idea of standing in front of a class of twenty to start with, and she had offered to do the bit where she demonstrated the procedure, on an anatomical dummy.
She carefully squirted anaesthetic gel down the dummy’s urethra, then explained that you now need to maintain a firm grip just under the head of the penis, and keep it vertical, to prevent the gel just coming straight back out; demonstrating by holding the dummy’s penis exactly as she described.
“You need to do this for at least three or four minutes,” she said, “and you can just fill the time talking to the patient, I usually just talk about anything that comes up!” Then she nearly died of embarrassment as the whole class of twenty, and me, burst into spontaneous laughter and applause!
Anyway, dear reader, for your delectation, if you’re following it, is the next chapter of Ten Years After – in which our heroine has visitors.
( Chapter Seventeen )
Previous chapters are all in memories Ten Years After, Previous Chapters
The next chapter is here.
You can also find them via tags.
Feedback makes me happy – pleasure a writer today!!
Oh, and I was teaching in tandem with my colleague who is a Urology Nurse Specialist yesterday. We were doing a study-day on Urinary Catheterisation, specifically of male patients. Poor M. was shaking at the idea of standing in front of a class of twenty to start with, and she had offered to do the bit where she demonstrated the procedure, on an anatomical dummy.
She carefully squirted anaesthetic gel down the dummy’s urethra, then explained that you now need to maintain a firm grip just under the head of the penis, and keep it vertical, to prevent the gel just coming straight back out; demonstrating by holding the dummy’s penis exactly as she described.
“You need to do this for at least three or four minutes,” she said, “and you can just fill the time talking to the patient, I usually just talk about anything that comes up!” Then she nearly died of embarrassment as the whole class of twenty, and me, burst into spontaneous laughter and applause!
Anyway, dear reader, for your delectation, if you’re following it, is the next chapter of Ten Years After – in which our heroine has visitors.
( Chapter Seventeen )
Previous chapters are all in memories Ten Years After, Previous Chapters
The next chapter is here.
You can also find them via tags.
Feedback makes me happy – pleasure a writer today!!
