An Outback Nurse by Thea Hayes

Author:Thea Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Smiddy came back with me to Wave Hill a week after I was discharged from the hospital. Anthony was now seventeen months old, and he didn’t know me. It was heartbreaking at first, but he soon came around to accepting me as his mother.

Everyone was busy getting ready for the Negri Races. I was tempted to ask Ralph not to go, but he really had no option: he was in charge of organising everything, especially the horses. Smiddy offered to stay on, but I didn’t want her to miss out on the best race meeting ever. Off they all went. Tom and Anne were still on holidays and Reg Durack was sent down to look after Wave.

Anthony, David and I had a very peaceful week, except when ‘Mad’ Maria, one of the dining-room girls, started terrorising Reg. He asked me to go up to the settlement with him to assess her condition. She was running around, lifting her dress over her head and screaming. The Darwin doctor had seen Maria before and prescribed medication for what would now probably be called bipolar disorder. Taking it with me, I gave her a dose that settled her down. Maria was the only mentally ill patient I had in the north, and her disorder only affected her now and then.

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