shirley you're kidding?!

So its been one of those weeks again!
dealing with the crazies... the ridiculously insane... and some just downright silly folk...
and now that i've told you about my colleagues... let me tell you about my patients...
they've been unusually quiet...they've been behaving themselves...
and i think some of them actually have begun to listen to me!

There's this 86yr old bean on my ward, who's just not doing well at all...
shes very frail and weak...and ill...and giving up...
and she refuses to eat anything!
the nurses think she's depressed...
i think she just hates the food they give her!
( this is a secret she's let me in on ;) and i ve promised to make sure they give her more carrots and peas...she likes her veggies... and white bread... none of that healthy wholemeal stuff! )
now this is the problem with medicine, i think...
everyone's always insisting on a diagnosis!
there simply must be something wrong with her...
why is it that she must be depressed?
i seriously don't know what's wrong with her!
she wouldn't eat... she wouldn't talk...
and then she just decided to talk to me about her general take on life!
out of the blue... probably just because she felt like it.
yes, she's poorly... but sometimes she's just fine.

it was really warm sunny day today...actually hot, it was...
and all the cool folk with convertibles had their tops down...
( note to self - must remember to get chainsaw and take roof off of my old toyota)
and then this evening it snowed.

this is the thing about life, isnt it?
your never quite sure what'll happen...
yes , we all listen to the weather man on channel 4...
and he did predict snow... and he knows what he's talking about...
( he could be like a weather doctor now, couldn't he?!)

but when its as warm as it was today...
(and you cant believe your good luck that its a Sunday... and for once you have the day off when its nice weather!)
...and you think to yourself... i dont care what the weatherman says...
theres no chance it'll snow.

i dont know if its because i dont believe the weatherman...
or i simply dont want to.

i have the rest of the week off...
and i wont be seeing my favourite old rita...
i ll see her when i get back...
i know i will...
cos none of the other women in my life wait eagerly to see me like she does.