Flo rate

Today is National (be nice to) Nurses Day, which is also the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth in 1820.

Mother sees her as a bit of a cross between Typhoid Mary and Harold Shipman. This is because, in her hospital in Scutari many soldiers died because good old Flo failed to realise the importance of good hygiene. Infection Prevention nurse of the year she wasn’t.

She also had a pet owl (called Athena) who lived in her uniform pocket and did ward rounds with her. I suppose if CSI had been around they would have deemed some of the deaths to be due to contamination with strigiformes faeces (AKA owl shit).

Good old Flo took to her bed at age 38 until she died aged 90. She was a pioneer of early retirement.

Which just about redeems her in Mother’s book…….