Book Board Chat

joanne, all the nurses were regular nurses, but there was a nun in charge of each floor. and they were wonderful to patients; they were just hard on the nurses. having been raised methodist and having no experience with nuns, i was expecting various degrees of mother theresa. my fellow nurses, many of whom had been through catholic parochial schools explained to me that no, for the most part This was the way nuns were. one of my buddies said that the reason her ears stuck out was because they had been grabbed so much by the nun who taught her in first grade and another bud would not eat tomato because she had been force fed one by her second grade (nun) teacher. at the hospital where i worked, sister redempta was so mean that she was fired from her floor and evicted from the convent where she lived on hospital grounds. i adored the sister that was over our floor, and kept in touch with her until she died, but i was happy that i was not on sister redempta's floor.