I said in my last Facebook post about my recent travails at Stepping Hill Hospital that that would be the last medical update, as I am now safely home.
However, I doubt that most of the readers of my blog are friends with me on Facebook, (some are), so they won’t know what the hell I’m on about.
Suffice it to say, I’ve just spent a week in hospital and let’s leave it at that. Because, what took me there isn’t the point of this post. What I did there, is.
Whilst wiling away the hours in my hospital bed I got a bit bored and asked Nurse Emma if I could borrow a pencil and a few sheets of paper.
I did a bit of sketching of patients and nurses who I was fortunate enough to meet in the HDU and ward B6.
So, like I said, it’s not an update per se. More of a ‘backdate’.
Nurse Emma at her computer.
Steve, fellow patient.
Nurse Eta at the medicine dispenser trolley.
Craig, fellow patient, (with black eye).
River and countryside.
Bit of a random one, this. No, it’s not the view from my hospital window, it’s from a photo that a friend, Edel Gallagher, posted on Facebook while I was in hospital. I really liked the composition, so thought I’d copy it. Now, if you compared my sketch to the original photograph, you’d think it’s complete bobbins. Luckily, you can’t, so here it is.
Not as spooky as the stuff I normally paint, but from where I was lying, things were pretty spooky enough.
David Milligan-Croft
I hope you’re feeling better and I love it that art helped you through it.
Thank you, Claudia. Yes, it really did. Staff would come round asking for their portraits to be done! I namaged to write a bit of prose too. |So, not all bad!
Wow. I believe this is the best hospital story I have ever heard. Good health to you and lots of art in the future, I hope.
Thank you, Claudia. And the same to you.
I just left a 2 week stay at a hospital, too. I did not make charming sketches, though. Good to be home, eh?
It certainly is, Kerry. Hope you’re on the mend?
You, too! I am learning to give myself iv antibiotics. Challenging. At least I am home, though.
Ouch! That doesn’t sound pleasant, or easy. I would have thought if you needed them via IV you should still be in hospital. Different countries, different systems.
Good stuff, Dave. Creativity is our lifeblood. Keep it flowing.
Hope you’re on the mend, David.
I simply adore that you asked for that pencil and paper and worked such magic with them. Healing arts in action!
I am on the mend, thank you, Jean. Yes, art definitely helps the healing process. I see it every week at Arc, (the place where I volunteer).
you are a talented artist! hope you are feeling better.
Thank you, that’s very kind of you. I am feeling much better now, thanks.