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Round and About
With Murtho
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A new adventure - a late call
. saying, "where are you, you were
to be in surgery this morning?"
Well, someone slipped up • even
at home .you will want some
notice. You have been thinking
about it for three months • and
suddenly they are looking for
you - yesterday!
--We-drove to the hospital in a
driving rain - real miserable.
After going through
"Admittance" you sit: and wait
• for that . quickee x-ray and, the
trip up to your room. - No
kidding - a beautiful blonde took
care of this part.
The room has two ladies
already - occupying -beds so ' I
won't be lonesome. We, are
e intred all round - no "Hey
You's" in this room. What did •
you bring with you? - we have to
list everything - why did" I bring
so Many "just-in-casers?"
Forever the optimist - I am
hoping - I will have time to just
relax and do nothing - unless I
feel like sketching a pretty nurse
or the lady in the next bed, or
-dowers or something. - So now
for listing. I try to bunch it into
orie short word - JUNK - but she
won't go for that, so we crowd it
in as much as possible and• skip
• the fact that the old • tote bag
was really heavy with the box of
letter writing material - a heavy,
can of spray for charcoal
sketching and " other bits and
pieces, all really necessary - just
in case I need it! Chances are ten
• to one' -that it will all be carried
'back home again without having
been taken out of: the bag!
My neighbor has " visitors -
"How did you manage it? Isn't it
heavy? Does it hurt?"
The lady has a badly broken
leg - and the questions fly. "Do
•
you want us to finish•;ti at bit of
wallpapering that's left?" "No! I
don't care if it NEVER gets
finished!" "How soon will you
?.•, have a walking cast' You know
you won't be doing any dancing
for a while?"
In the meantime a very rice
nurse conies into my quarter of
the room and has some queer
looking gadgets with her. "Got
to prepare you" - (for my
ordeal?), She plugs in extra lights.
- "I've got to shave off all hair in
• this area." Hair? no hair on my
chest! "Oh yes there is very
fine - but it inhere!" And so. she
'Sets in to tickling and rubbing.
This was quite an unexpVcted
event. Of course when you've
never had, surgery - , you don't
a know what to expect.'
Another nurse comes in - a
very attractive, tiny blonde, she
is a Goderich girl. I couldn't
place her - "Do you Curl? - Then
you know my dad Ralph
Weigel." . Sure, I know Ralph.
She is telling me what to. expect
•
after the operation - "Breathe
and cough - breathe and cough"
this isthe advice given by three
different people who call on me,
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•
and they also show you how and
you show you can do it.
Dr. Norey, who will put me to
sleep, tells me what will happen
with nose tubes - and all the "'
other contraptions they use. I
think this is wonderful - imagine
waking up and finding tubes
running all over the place - could
scare you to --,-pieces!!
The little girl . from home
comes back to give you a
backrub - m -m -m- feels
' wonderful! Nothing to eat or
drink after midnight, so I have a
sandwich, juice and a nice cuppa
tea! Makes up for the lunch and
supper I missed. I was too
excited - . and too busy running
around like a chicken with its
head off - to bother eating. '
I thought of a million things I
should have done - would have if.
I'd known when .,I was to come
in - or would I have still left
everything 'till the last minute!
Well, knowing ME ----! The
chatter is going a mile a minute
next bed, - what a tape recorder
could pick up at a time like this!
I forgot to mention that after
the "prep" job - another nurse is
called in to give close inspection.
I passed! '
' My next caller is a lady
doctor. What do you expect a
lady doctor to look like? Well,
the doctors sure come in all
shapes and sizes so why should
you expect someone "different"
She is `' a very nice looking
young woman, has a nice accent
- European, She wants to know
why and what and how come
you are in for surgery. Well,
where do you. start. "When did
you first have these pains?" - I
never had any pains" - Well -
now you have to try texplain
what you did have and when -
and she' looks at you as if you
should • have something else.
After... a. _ great _ many leading
questions which revive your
memory# she pins down your
aches and burps onto a history
sheet or chart. She then starts to
give you a check up and she
certainly is the gentlest checker
I've ever had. Then I get more
instructions on ' breathing and
coughing - and lots of moving
around is advised - and she takes
her leave, taking the arm band
instrument with ha.
I suddenly realize all, is quiet
next bed - are they just listening
in on my Uilstory? No, I guess
visiting hours are over. I am
informed the lady across from
me has just had the same surgery "Breathe m in for. and cough! -
I'd like to see the doctor do it!"
she says with a sneer . ; "It
doesn't hurt HIM!"
1 decide to do some writing -
the nurses are in and out often.
One lies on the bed sign and a
couple of minutes later another
comes to do it. I hope this is an
indication of the . service around
here! Bettee'put out the light4
Wonder when I will feel like
writing again? Oh well - it's not
too exciting anyway!
Don't forget the Country
Crafts Group are having a bake
sale and Tea and Penny Sale -
and a lucky door prize on
Wednesday April 30 at Carlow
Hall - their big project.
The Maple Leaf Chapter 'of
the IODE have June Callwood as
guest speaker Tuesday April 29.
This -will be one luncheon you
won't want to miss so make sure
of your ticket.
Knox Young Peoples Society
are sponsoring a tea and bake
sale on April 26 at the Knox
Church. '
There is also a rummage sale
on this same date at St. Peters
Parish Hall,' 1:30 p.m. sharp,
auspices of the Catholic
Women's League.
The Craft and Hobby show at
Clinton Wesley -Willis Church on
April 25 at 7-10 p.m. and April
26 at 2-10 p.m. will be a very
interesting affair and is
sponsored by the Women's
Hospital Auxiliary of Clinton.
MINISKIRT MISHAP
A New°Collection of Poems
By Elizabeth Brewster
Sunflowers •
My sister and I used to have
contests
To see who could look longest at
the sun.
We would stand in the centre of
the green field
At full noon of summer,
Rooted in the ground like two
sunflowers,
And stare up at that great round
Flame -coloured source of our
life) i
And when: iv; closed our eyes a
• dozen suns
Students at University of
California who suffer injuries are
asked - to fill . out' a form
describing how -the accident
happened, and to give an
opinion how it might havebeen
prevented. The Ontario Safety
League says that a cyclist who
„was banged up when he smashed
into a post reported , it was
"because I was distracted by a
beautiful chick in a mini -skirt."
He wrote that his scrapes could
have been avoided , "by
eliminating mini -skirts - but,
come to think of it, -I'd rather
smash into posts." .
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TOWN OF GODERICH ,
HARBOUR COMMITTEE.
Danced on our darkened
eyeballs.
Now 1 never look at :the sun at
all,
Except maybe when it rises or
sets
Or is reflected in water
Shattered by waves
My eyes will not endure
That burning -joy.
Lucid, unpretentious, quietly
honest, Elizabeth Brewster's
PASSAGE OF SUMMER is her
fust collection of poems since
1957. The over 100 poems
included reveal the poet's fine
mastery of verse and free verse
techniques and reflect a vividly
perceptive view of the world
around her.
"I have written poems
principally to come to a better
understanding of myself, my
world, and. other people," Miss
Brewster explains. "Many in this
collection are concerned with
memory, the passage of time,
and the inner world of dreams.
Others attempt to create
character or describe landscape,
expecially in rural New
Brunswick, where I grew up.
"A" number deal with the
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"Mrs. Brown, You've,
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Passage of Sunt; er
problem of establishing an
identity; the struggle to lead a
human rational life in a would
which is increasingly inhuman
and irrational. Others search fog
meaning . in the past, in
traditional values, in personal
relationships and In a faith
sometimes precariously held.. A
dominant image is that of the
quest or exploration, of life seen
as the search for the great dream
city overlooking ' its Sea of
Glass."
Born and brought up in New
Brunswick, Elizabeth Brewster
was educated at the University
of New Brunswick, B.A.;
University of Toronto Library
That's Life
School, B.L»S.; Radcliffe
College, A.M.. and Indiana
University, Ph. D. She is the
author of three. poetry
chapbooks published by The
Ryerson Press: East Coast, 1951;
Llllooet, 1954 and Roads, 1957.
She has worked chiefly in
libraries in New. Brunswick,
Ontario and British , Columbia.
Miss Brewster is now with the
Universityof AIberta Library.
PASSAGE OF SUMMER
By Elizabeth Brewster
Price: $4.95
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299 Queen Street West
Toronto 2B, Ontario
INFLATION
"The basic 'problem is that our money seems to buy less and less
for us here in Canada and indeed its value has been dwindling at the
rate of over four per cent per annum. At the same time 'we are
bending under fresh burdens of ever increasing taxes by all levels of
government., which now take away about 30 per cent of the Gross
National Product; and this does not include municipal taxes. This
mparei to less than 25 per cent as recently as 1966.
'The governments are hard put to pay their bilis and indeed, no
one ants to buy bonds.' The only way, apart from taxes, that the
Fede :� .government can raise money is by selling bonds to, the
bankin n \system; which in turn allows the Banks to increase their
loaning •' • , thereby increasing the money supply. This process
steadily reduces the value and power of the money in sour pockets
"Canadian production is increasing at about five per . cent per
annum- :Governments now ask for nearly 30 per cent of this total,
all of which leads, to continuing inflation. it will take the most rigid
economies, the creation of a wise system of priorities, together with
two or three years of unrelenting control of expenditures and
demands, to -achieve a perceptible decline in inflation. It is NOT
possible to live indefinitely with this kind of inflation....and we
should not forget this."
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' p summer now in Goderich, and at first glance
thererel f,y j4.01 t; "speck o' cha ►ge," At noon -hour the.
shops, in th up u glisten deserted in the sun. On twilight
wk -da ;even n g s, the park in ; the centre of the Squara is:
inhabited smiler nsive old men, 'Similar' ' lazily
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chatting 'teen tigers, who were sitting there whoa Sir.
Wilfred Irauriar *as the coming man.
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hT
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"Efo ahput : See-erdy. ?" asks one of them, in sturdy
Ontaria1 W .
qh'
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babies
ll'angu f .
On I he streets you hear the sing -song Welsh accent, the
hearty v w • Is, of Manchester, or mincing Cockney, just as
often s yolk hear the harder, less definitely marked
CanadiOn v.ice. Accent doesn't :make any difference.
Because,, b� and large, Goderich has found out all
unknowing that what a pace], -contains doesn't materially
change if .if is ,wrapped in red or green instead of white .
paper.
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