The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-17

where | have been visiting the doe
tor and nurses a few days. The visit
has been so pleasant they they insist
on my staying a day or. SO longer.
and as the matron has the key to the
situation ] will remain--with pleas
ure. but will see you this week.
Discipline and system seem to be
the most in evidence here. II you
wish for anything you have only ito
ring the annunciator. when a nurse
quickly appears, as If by magic. and
Will bring you anything you want
provided II is a glass of water or
doctor. In some instances the rules
might, in my opinion, be changed for
the better. To say that ones rela-
tiyes can only visit you certain hours
in the day and then IL the sun is
shining Is a hardship on some peo-
pies relatives who have nowhere else
to go. There are some who would
prefer an humble. cottage where their
loved ones would visit them at all
times during their Illness, TO the
finest ward in the hospital, where the
signs of the zodiac must be consulted
Lefore they would know when to gain
admission.
The nurses here seem to be very
obedient to the doctors orders. II
the instructions are to allow you a
glass of water every three hours and
you just happen to fall into a gentle
sleep at midnight. the nurse will
wake you. and say "here's the water"
ON time. Then run and put 1t on
the chart. They do a great business
with that chart. | presume il is like
railroading-they use it to regulate
the rates. Now that is, all good sys-
TEN, but not always good for the sys.
tenn of the patient, who may need
sleep worse than water. but the rules
must be obeyed. --...,e
If the doctor prescribes for you a
light diet they bring you a glass of
milk and turn on the light. It won't
hurt you. The second day | was
here ] got hungry and sent up town
and had two limburger sandwiches
sent to me, but they had no sooner
entered the building than they were
eteeted-instinct | presume. There
was grand rush for them to see who
they were for, and when they found
they were for me that settled it. III
was on the light diet--so said the
chart. On consultation they decided
to eat one (they never consulted mel
and keep the other-it will keep
I'D libitum or indefinitely without
spoiling-and they further agreed
that should they ever have a German
patient they would feed him a very
little of the limburger sandwich until
he got used to the flight" diet.
Yesterday when the nurse brought
me a glass of milk on tray and had
turned on the light | discovered a
crumb of real bread on the tray.
While the nurses head was turned /
the crumb and hid 1t. When
she had gone | ate half or 1t and
saved the other half until the next
day. was afraid to eat 100 much,
as | was still on the eight" diet. |
What a comfort this experience will |
be to me in my travels. 1t will make !
A railroad lunch counter appear like
a Delmonico and the cheapest hotel |
like a Waldorf-Astoria.
While tlYts hospital is not adver-
tised as a summer resort, yet 1t seems
to be filled up with some of the very
best people. and they get along SO
nicely together. All hail the hospi-
tall
Riverside Hospital. What a beauti-
full name, and beautiful place, sit
uated on the banks OF the Ohio in
view of some of the grandest of
scenes.
What poet could not find inspira-
ton from watching the effects of the
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