Nursing Diary no1 - 5 September 1922-3 June 1923

or Gynecological sponges - smaller than Maternity Sponges. We had our milk and crackers and went to lunch at 12 A.M. After lunch we had a study hour. Then, another demonstration on bed making and more practice. 3 - 4 P.M. we made more sponges. Dear Dairy is was a homesick day. I just felt like leaving at once - but we went down to dinner - and there was a letter from Mother - enclosing the cord for my cape.

work that day. We went around other parts of the Hospital - The Diet Kitchen, Dispensary X-Ray Room, we had a Demonstration here - it is a wonderful machine and such interesting work. We visited the T.B. ward and Operating Room - we saw the Parlour where we must take our visitors and discovered the mailbox - just as we enter the dining room. From 10 - 11 PM we made Surgical

letter. I never wrote such a lonesome one before. But I was just on the verge of tears all the time. We went out to post our letters and had a little walk, When we came back to our rooms we had a few visitors. They made a little fun, before we went to bed - but I do hope I am never so terribly homesick again dear Diary, or I will purely have to go home or send for Mother.

That letter was just about too much for me. Several times during the meal I felt that I would have to get out before I bawled before everyone. However I managed to get thru' the meal. But the evening was ahead, and I was really and truly afraid of it. We came up and wrote letters. I wrote Mother - just a very short note because I was too homesick to write properly. I also wrote be Happy - such a

Friday - Sept 8/22

Dear Dairy Woke this AM. feeling rather homesick But hurried down to breakfast at 7:15. Came back & made bed. at 8 AM went to class room and dusted 8 - 9 AM we could not go around the Hospital - because the places were busy so we made up our nursery sponges - little wee tiny ones. Then we practiced our beds - and made more sponges. Went to