HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-08-17, Page 18Now 1 know itwas alt. guff
I've suddenly discovered mthat
my wife isn't such a • lazy bum
after, all, and that most women
aren't appreciated by their
husbands.
Last week I Wrote an idyllic
column about how peaceful and
beautiful it was at Grandad's, •
; out in the' country., overlooking
the bay, quiet, restful and all
. that guff.
It wasn't guff at the time, but
it is now. It's neither peaceful or
quiet around here, though. it's
still beautiful
Yes, we're' still here. On the
eve of our departure, my silly
old woman stepped out of the
car, twisted her silly old ankle
—and. hroke._:the, .silly o1d..tbi ng�..._
We didn't know it until next
day. a bad sprain. But on the
morrow it was' the shape and
colour of a fully matured beet so
off to the hospital for X-rays.
That was'quite an experience.
It�was one .Q.f- those .siripping_hat
days, and also a Saturday. Nor-
mally a small-town hospital is a
pretty quiet place. But on a
Saturday afterrrooi . in mid-
summer, in tourist country, the
emergency' ward is a bit . of a
mad -house. W
We were lucky. The girl -at the
desk had gone to school with my
wife and had our names written
down before '°I could open my
• mouth.. Another school friend is
a
,_ nurse, dnd__though_ off
Dame in and helped in many
ways. •
There was one doctor and one
medical student on the job. In
poured the patients, and I
couldn't help:admiring the way _
the staff coped, in the appalling
heat. •
I hope Doc Leeson, another
old friend, had his breakfast
that innrfRing, heca.use-..he. cer-
tarnly 'didn't have any lunch°
Her"e's an Indian girl with a sick
baby, pHere's ' a twelve -year-old
boy being carried in `by . a
worried father. The boy has cut
his leg badly. 'Tourists.
Here's a young kid who has
burned his hand- badly., Here'•s a
young fellow with' his hand' all
mangled. Here ,. comes a, very
pregnant lady, just about ready
to pop.
`" I 'see the doc in the office; a
cup of 'coffee he's ,trying to
snatch Held in one hand; phone
in the other. I know it's a bad
one; because he's; lost his joking,
jovial, personal manner arid
looks grave.
Two 'orderlies• a.nd the
medical student tear down the
hall in the direction of thq am-
bulance garage. Running -flat
out. Sure enough, it is 'a bad one.
Plane crash just a few miles out
of town. .
The doc can't leave. He has to
read X-rays, bandage wounds
and deliver a baby. -But he
phones for help at the accident
scene and goes right- back to
• work. He's disturbed, because
he's a. flying buff himself.
But he doesn't "'show it. He
goes right on toiling with ailing
humans, joking, calling them by
'their - first names, doing six
. 'things at once. (Later he told me
there were two killed, father and
sop,, in the crash. )
rs He finally got a look at my
wife's X-rays, cheerfully told
n her yep, it was broken, and swif-
tly and skillfully made _ and
dapped an _a_. walking icast.
The nurses, though running in
all directions, found time to put
'her in a wheelchair, get us out to
the car, and loaned us a walker,
a thing you push ahead of you,
hopping on one foot. ,
What a difference from the
impersonality* and even inef-
ficiency so often found in a big
city hospital. There, too, there
are dedicated people doing their
best, but there's, a mass of
paperwork, 'a coldness,'a lack of
intimacy that —is rather off -
,
u
putting.
Well, I've digressed, but the
hospital scene impressed me
deeply. It's the way, a- hospital
should be: friendly, concerned,:
and with a minimum of red
tape.
Anyway, the old girl is lying
• on -the—chesterfield- with- -her. ter
propped „up and feeling furious
anO, frustrated. She's the type
who does everything in the
house at about eighty 'miles an
hour, and the speed at which I
do them, about one-tenth of
that; is driving her insanes
Every time she remembers
that she's going to be hobbling
for six weeks, cah't go swim-
ming or play golf, can't get at
her washing, she gets angrier. I
try to ' cheer her up by saying
she's lucky she isn't in a full leg
cast, in traction for six months.
It doesn't seem to `help. To her,
immobility is anathema.
Meantime, I'm re -learning a
lot of the things I used to do
-when -the—kids were little. but -
have sloughed off, ever so
casually, over the years.
Cooking. Last night for din-
r er, small new potatoes, boiled
4n young
carrots and beans, sirloin steak
and salad. Tonight, sausage,,
broccoli spears and .whatever
else turns up.
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GODERICli SI1
!IAL -STAR, THU*RSDAY, AUGUST 17 1972
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Misiorical site
Cuntin :plaque unveiled. for remembr�
-Housework: I've -m-ade- 'my
bed, after only three days,
,vacuumed the° rug and ' done
about eight thousand dishes.
Just finished washing out a•
,brassiere and some socks. I'll
cope. ,
However, it will be a joyful
dray when the lady of the ,house
can get off her backside and get
back to doing all those things
that take her so short, and me so
long. Housewives 'of the world, I
salute you: I'll never again ask ,
"What in the world do ' you do
all day, when I'm at work?" ,
Never. Now I know.
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On Sunday, July• 16, an historical plaque commemorating
Narcisse M. Cantin,' "the founder of St. Joseph", was unveiled
at the junction of Highways 21 and 84. This plaque is one of a
series 'being erected throughout the province, by the Archives
of -Ontario, acting on the advice of the Archaeological and
Histiinc Sites Board iii -Ontario. Shown from left to. right after
the ceremony are: Mr. Joseph. Wooden, a noted local
historian, The Hon. Charles MacNaughton, Chairman of
Ontario's Management Board . of ,,,Cabinet; Mr. 'Napoleon
Cantin, • grandson of Narcisse Cantin, who unveiled the
plaque; The Rt. Rev Father. M. W. Bourdeau, of Bayfield;
Father Lorenzo Cadieux, SA., who represented the province's
Historic Sites Board; Mr.- Harold S Turn.er,. Ptebldent of the
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Tuesday, August 29
Plans for the' 45th Huron
County Plowing Match were
finalized at a meeting held in
McKillop Township Hall,
Winthrop, ori August 3.
The Match is to be held on
the• Wm. Steckle farm, two miles
south of Bayfield, on Highway
21, on August 29. Coaching day
ATTENTION —VETERANS
was set for Monday, August 28 ' ,
when expert coaches will be on
hand to advise plowmen on the
fine points of Plowing.
The Annual . Horse Shoe
• Pitching Competition will be
held in connection with the
Plowing Match as well as a
draw for a carcass of beef.
Can Your Laws Get To Much Water?
"It Can," Says the Expert
"And This Is Why:
"Your lawn must,have sufficient
water to grow. Ad during -dry.
weather, it should get a thorough
soaking once. a week. This .. will
encourage the development of a
healthy and deep root -system -capable ,_-',e-:<
of using fully the soil fertility.
`However, some people water their
lawns too often, creating. a wasteful
run-off,, or sprinkle it lightly but each
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