Shadows of the Workhouse (Call the Midwife)

by Jennifer Worth

Health is the greatest of God’s gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider’s web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

If there is one thing that a dying person needs more than relief from pain, it is love.

Jennifer Worth remains a compassionate soul and a wondrous nurse to look up to. I am so fortunate to have read her work and experienced her love through writing <3

I disagree wholly with the notion that there is no point in staying with an unconscious patient because he or she does not know you are there. I am perfectly certain, through years of experience and observation, that unconsciousness, as we define it, is not a state of unknowing. Rather, it is a state of knowing and understanding on a different level that is beyond our immediate experience.

Something rummy’s afoot, or I’m a brass monkey.”