Celebrated Cape Town nurse, who never took sick leave, retires after 35 years | JennaEtheridge
Heroes of Groote Schuur Facebook pageSome of her patients fondly remembered her care and thanked her, while former colleagues appreciated her knowledge and patience.
With a little uniform that her mother made, and a bed made out of tomato boxes, she ran her own little hospital and put bandages on her cat and dolls."They knocked her down and started chewing on her and every time she moved in the night they carried on and by the morning she had no flesh on her leg from the knee to the foot, they'd eaten it all off the bone with her awake," she recalled.
"I've had times where I had a problem with my back and I could barely walk but I was here. A couple of times I've had to say to somebody please drive me to work because I can't drive, but I was here." she said.
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