Many of you will have heard me mention a long hospital stay..... a time when I out of bodied for best part of a week.
But thats not what I wish to tell you today.
While I was waiting for the second operation as the first had failed.I was in a general ward .......I couldnt sleep at nights and spent a lot of time just gazing out the window at the beach which is just across the road.....never at any time did the idea that I might not make it occure to me, it was just I felt so hot and uncomfortable.....one night a nurse come in.....she asked.....if I was ok and why wasnt I in bed....I noticed her name tag Aroha....a maori name and she looked maori as well........we talked for ages and she left.........Each night she came and talked to me....on the night before I was to be operated on she told me she was going on leave so wouldnt see me again.
Yet when I asked about her when I recovered from the op I got odd looks......no one had heard of her.......some said they hadnt had a nurse by that name on the ward......others said no we dont have a Maori nurse in the hospital havent had for a very long time........I just wanted her to know I was ok