IN THE SICK ROOM.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 15 (Supplement)

IN THE SICK ROOM.

THE INVALID SAYS. Don’t write to say you are coming and then not turn up. I lie and watcii the clock, and the disappointment is out of proportion to the offence. Don’t creep 1 Tip-toeing on polished floors makes a horrid, squeaking noise, and you are much more likely to slip andj. fall—perhaps on mel Don’t sit on the bed. Even eight .'Stones of'dieted humanity sends a spring mattress up on one side, and shifts all' the pillows on which I am leaning. Don’t forget that my eyes are weak, and that I want to look straight at you, not round the corner. Don’t tell me that I look wonderfully well, or dreadfully ill. I should miss any kind enquiries, but I love to hear bits of gossip, or harmless scandal, and I simply hate those friends of yours who had operations “exactly like yours” 1 Don’t come out of visiting hours. Even nurses are human, and bang about When “put out” I