Item 01: Florence Holloway diary, 1 September 1917-31 October 1918 - Page 134
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[Page 134]
Thursday 19 [18] April 1917 [1918]
Sewing grey silk underskirt, writing letters & reading passes the long day. Pts. watch me from roof, grounds, windows opposite & run up & down ladder outside window what time I bathe, get out etc., while all day orderlies fly in at any old moment to answer bells so any modesty I entered Choubra with is long since flown.
N. Warrell visits me and the soft & gentle Matron, Miss McLean, not long from Khartoum comes for a friendly chat. New night nurse, 3 yrs. service in Egypt, pleasant woman & quiet.
10 a.m. comes M.O. & after feeling pulse as usual remarks "Oh, yes a much better pulse today, doing well, pulse from 64 to 80 very good, soon take a swab, good morning sister" & so leaves me.
For such a tiresome pt. consider I have not been as bad as I expected, that is all I can say.