Call the Nurse Quotes

“I have always marvelled at the ability of the average Gael to find something to laugh about in the most unlikely situation.”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“Like a huge domed tent of some fabulous, golden fabric, the northern lights displayed their splendour in a beautiful, swaying, rhythmic movement that glittered and glowed in the night sky. Awed and amazed, we could only stand and watch. I could imagine choirs of angels, jewelled harps, Heaven’s”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“at intervals between work schedules the next day. Everyone professed to be delighted with the goods and the only thing that we seemed not to have done was complete our own shopping! The next time we went to Inverness, once again Angus had been told and rang to say would we pick something up for him. He didn’t say what it was. When we arrived at his store, we were confronted by a Rayburn! He was quite upset when we refused to subject our backs and our elderly”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“There is a legend which claims that the call of the curlew aids the spirits of the dying to leave the body and travel to the next world.”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“They were usually perfectly happy in the family home, in which they might well have been born. But they were often a danger to themselves with regard to fire, falls, electricity, and sudden illness. So, was it better to leave them where they were, happy but in danger, or insist on removing them to some sort of care, where they might be physically safe but quite possibly miserable? The eternal problem.”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“and because of the uncertain telephone communication she felt that she might not even hear if Katy arrived safely or how she progressed. I”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“Here we had the usual dilemma of the elderly when they became confused and forgetful. They were usually perfectly happy in the family home, in which they might well have been born. But they were often a danger to themselves with regard to fire, falls, electricity, and sudden illness. So, was it better to leave them where they were, happy but in danger, or insist on removing them to some sort of care, where they might be physically safe but quite possibly miserable? The eternal problem.”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“wellequipped mainland hospital. We pulled up outside, several”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“and hiding places abundant: even the wind tended to muffle the”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“dangerous undertaking.”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“I had to complete my”
― Mary J. MacLeod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“Scientists can explain the aurora borealis if they wish, but they cannot take away its impact on an individual’s consciousness. What we know and what we feel do not always coincide.”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“when it was announced that the outgoing steamer would be 30 minutes late departing, an impatient visitor was complaining loud and long until Angus got tired of his grumbles. ‘Ach, haud your wheesht, man. It’ll no take you long to wait half an hour!’ Celtic logic, perhaps? SEVEN A castle and a corpus So Hogmanay approached. I was not looking forward to the”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“we know and what we feel do not always coincide.”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

“out the clootie dumpling, cakes, and oat biscuits, while the men, bearing the earthly remains of the old man,”
― Mary J. Macleod, Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle