Ray
Leonardsson

Mobilises well from bed to floor…

A long time ago, in a hospital not far away, a student nurse was handing over his patients to the night shift. One fiercely independent patient – a bilateral amputee – was determined not to use his call button to summon a nurse, and once or twice leaned over too far to reach something, and fell out of his bed. The comment about his mobility slipped out of the student’s mouth by accident.

A few years later the same nurse, now becoming experienced, was taking handover from the previous shift. A 95-year-old lady with a history of heart failure had been admitted with chest pain, and had been referred to the cardiologist. An innocent slip of the tongue – no more – from the nurse handing over translated ‘cardiologist’ into ‘archaeologist’.

With no intention of doing anything with them, the nurse decided to jot down these amusing little incidents, and years later had a thick envelope full of Post-Its and several songs in his head. Something had to be done…

So the musical with the working title ‘Unfair to Badgers’ found its way onto the page, and is now this book: Who’s the Diabetic Fish?

And who was (and still is) the nurse? Well, no prizes for guessing.