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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: freda underhill Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:35 AM Nurse Ratched, I am a sceptic. I'm telling you, not only are you a figment of someone's imagination, you're a delusion. I'm turning the video off. now everyone roll over and get some sleep. fred |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dave Bryant Date: 19 Feb 04 - 10:44 AM Nurse Rached I'm not sure that Giok's brain is actually in his cranium, it's probably in the object that he wanted to be left alone to errect. I'm also sure that if you go about things in the right manner, he will comply and offer no resistance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 04 - 12:38 PM Nurse Ratched had some partners in crime in the form of male psychiatrists who were competing with her and with some of the patients. While she stands out, there was a culture of domination that had little to do with good mental health care in that facility. Great thing about literature is the games you can play with the language. Kesey created a classic type when he dreamed up a twisted nurse by the name of "Ratched." Chewing gum or salmon, anyone? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 04 - 01:04 PM All my nurses were lovely young women who really cared about my comfort. One was downright affectionate. (Wish I had had a private room) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: freda underhill Date: 19 Feb 04 - 01:08 PM no wonder you'r recovering so well, kendall... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 04 - 03:22 PM hehehe |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dr Will C U Now Date: 19 Feb 04 - 06:16 PM Private Room! These ARE available, of course. But only for folk with double-barrelled names and large bank accounts. The rest must suffer. Hence Nurse Ratched. I, on the other hand, am available to all. A professional of the highest motives. A servant of mankind. "Tis easier for a rich man to pass through the eye of a camel, than it is to find a needle in a sewed up patient" That will be $600. NEXT! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: MAG Date: 19 Feb 04 - 08:51 PM and how many of you think Kesey was justified in having McMurphy rape Nurse R. at the end in order to win the control battle???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 04 - 10:03 PM Did you read that attack as a rape? It was more along the lines of attempted murder. It has been a long time since I read the book, but I think I'd have noticed a rape. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Chief Chaos Date: 20 Feb 04 - 01:10 PM Let's see shall we? A patient who is certifiably insane (otherwise he wouldn't have been there in the first place) and being antagonized by (insert anyone here, male, female, color, religion, national origin, sexual preference)in the name of supposed control (when really what they were on was a sadistic power trip)ends up attempting to kill said antagonist and we are all supposed to mourn the antagonist? The patient was insane and under what I would consider tortuous conditions does exactly what any sane person would. We were all jumping up and down and screaming Bundalo right along with him. Just like when any bad guy gets their come uppance! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Feb 04 - 01:14 AM McMurphy was the most sane person in the book. Dysfunctional is not the same as insanity. He signed on to go to the hospital thinking it was a warm place to spend the winter and a way to beat jail time for something he had done (can't remember what, but I think it was fairly minor). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: freda underhill Date: 21 Feb 04 - 07:10 AM you are in the mudcat recovery ward... reading this thread, trying to feel better.. and there's all this talk of asylums, attempted murder, sadistic nurses, power struggles, rape and lobotomy.. is this relaxing? try this..... you are completely relaxed. at the end of your bed stands a tall,beautiful angel (choose whichever gender you need), playing a harp. you watch this beautiful being, and quietly the harp music picks up pace, sounding remarkably up beat, banjo like. you feel life and happiness throb through you, and strangely the music continues, altho the angel has come close, and you feel two huge beautiful soft white wings surrounding you, comforting you. as you lie peacefully, you can feel yourselflooking about and enjoying everything you can see. after a while you realise that the wings have gone, the music is now a memory, playing about your room, and maybe you feel hungry.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 21 Feb 04 - 08:40 AM Banjo like?? I thought you were trying to cheer us up! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: freda underhill Date: 21 Feb 04 - 09:03 AM no john, i was trying to wake you up.... ps.. i wondered how long b4 there'd be a banjo comment!! if theres a heaven, i hope there's some banjos there.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: kendall Date: 21 Feb 04 - 09:53 AM Say what you will about banjos, it is impossible to be pissed off while playing a banjo. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Amos Date: 21 Feb 04 - 10:53 AM Oh,. I dunno, kendall. I get pretty irritated while TRYING to... :>) A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Feb 04 - 10:55 AM Pissed on, yes. Pissed off - well, I'll take your word for it. Pass the bedpans nurse, I feel a squabble coming on! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: jacqui c Date: 21 Feb 04 - 05:47 PM Well, I'm in for the next op on Tuesday (if they've got a bed for me!). I wish that the hospital I'm going to was home to the Mudcat Recovery Ward 'cause I could really do with a white wine IV and a nice male nurse to tuck me in! Should be able to get back into the ward next weekend - I'll miss you all until then. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: kendall Date: 21 Feb 04 - 06:44 PM And we will mis you too. xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 22 Feb 04 - 01:53 AM Jacqui, good luck with the bunionectomy! You won't need many reminders to keep your foot up, it will ache if you put it down on the floor. We'll keep a Chardonay iv drip waiting for your return. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Feb 04 - 06:42 AM Limpit wants a bed here now... anything to avoid tidying her room. IV of blackcurrant juice and a snuggly blankie for her please, whilst I get to grips with the hellhole that is her bedroom. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Catherine Jayne Date: 22 Feb 04 - 07:12 AM well I've managed to come down with a bad cold and aches and pains....2 and half weeks before I go to have my legs fixed. Plug in another IV with extra Gin for the aches and extra vitamin C for the cold!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: rock chick Date: 22 Feb 04 - 02:05 PM Can i book a bed now pleaseee, as i have to periodically go into hospital as an emergency, would be nice to be with friends ranther than people telling you THEY know best even thou you have lived with the problem for 20 odd years. promise i will be a good patient...well most of the time once you give me the pain killers! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Feb 04 - 06:22 PM That really bugs me too, when other people tell you how you are feeling, and you know perfectly well that you aren't. Grrr... hook me up with the Prozac, I feel another 'chasing child around with a hammer and explaining infanticide' episode coming on.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dave Bryant Date: 23 Feb 04 - 06:34 AM Sorting out Limpit and her bedroom sounds like the sort of job for Nurse Ratched, Liz. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched Date: 23 Feb 04 - 06:48 AM Dave Bryant, I have no interest in pursuing menial domestic chores. You will regret this misunderstanding. When I have finished with Giok - you, young man, will be necksed. just a minute.. i saw him running off to the visiting room - BRB N.R. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,Alfred Annoyes Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:13 AM it was a dark and muddy night as i lay in my hospital cell the sign on my bed said Dave Bryant there was a grim, malodorous smell.. the ward was a ribbon of flurolight shedding on lousy floors and the men in white coats came riding, riding riding the men in white coats came riding up to my bedroom door they'd a stethoscope bright at their jacket Nurse Ratched was standing on by they watched while i coughed up n hacked it she fixed me with her malevolent eye they ticked a few forms and they muttered and mumbled, as they walked right on by but Nurse Ratched replied, listen Bryant I'll be back with the metho soon Bryant back with the metho and needle and she laughed as she swaggered on by... She'd a white starched hat on her forehead A bunch of old keys at her side A dowdy and spotless white uniform and a chuckle like Frankenstein's bride And she strode with a bottle of metho, and sponged that bottle of metho, sponged that burning metho Onto Dave Bryant's backside while Dave screamed and grabbed at his morphine Nurse Ratched leant over and said Behave now, Bryant or I'll get you And your bedsores will soon be bright red She slapped our young Dave to submission And beat the young man to a pulp Over the lino she clattered Like a medical Incredible Hulk …And still of a winter's night, they say, when Dave Bryant is clutching his knees, When the ward is a Mudcat asylum full of unrest & disease, When the ward is a ribbon of flurolight over the sanitised floor, Nurse Ratched comes a striding, striding, striding Nurse Ratched comes a striding, along the linoleum floor.. Alfred Annoyes |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,Nurse Ratched Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:17 AM Thank you, Mr Annoyes, for that short poetic expectoration. now I must continue my search for Giok...... N.R. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Feb 04 - 07:22 AM I'm beginning to feel stalked, good job I'm wearing this leopard skin disguise. No chance of my being spotted now! Grrrrr.....John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dr Will C U Now Date: 23 Feb 04 - 02:05 PM Nurse! This floor needs more polish. For when that Radchet person comes striding by. It'll help those with zimmer frames to get a move on, too. Who wants leopard skin coats? $600 a piece. NEXT! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Feb 04 - 02:07 PM I think a few of you ward folks ought to cool it with Nurse Ratched and make good the exit through that coat closet over there--hang out in the tavern for a while. But DON'T TAKE YOUR BEDSORES INTO THE HOT TUB!!! Ick. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dead Horse Date: 23 Feb 04 - 04:21 PM I had just got out of hospital the last time, when I found out that my wife did truly love me. She was so excited that I had returned to the bosom of my family. So excited, in fact, that she couldn't resist shouting out to the milkman, the mailman & the insurance man as they came walking up the drive "MY HUSBAND IS HOME, MY HUSBAND IS HOME". Sure did make me feel loved. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Feb 04 - 04:45 PM Oh Kay!! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Feb 04 - 05:05 PM Can't decide if it's lack of prozac or PMT or chocolate deprivation which is making me want to kill things...... Will have to eat chocolate rugby ball tomorrow to find out. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 23 Feb 04 - 05:16 PM What's the difference between PMT and BSE? Ones called Mad Cow Disease, and the other has something to do with beef. Oh dear, it's coat time again....John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,nurse ratched Date: 23 Feb 04 - 08:22 PM is that the strait jacket you're calling for, john? n.r |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Feb 04 - 11:57 PM Oh John, come over here and say that.... Why does it take 4 women with PMT to change alight bulb? BECAUSE IT JUST DOES, ALRIGHT A%£"$£"HOLE?!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,nurse ratched Date: 24 Feb 04 - 12:07 AM doubt in the power of women is a psychiatric condition which can be assisted with shock therapy. this I am adept in applying - and the smell of burnt leopardskin is not appealing. I'm coming. n.r. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Feb 04 - 04:39 AM Time to enlist in the guards, and don my bearskin I think. Old Goon show joke. Neddy Seagoon is being buried alive. 'You can't bury me, I want to join the guards! Moriarity. 'Nonsense Neddy, nobody under 6 feet can join the guards' Ah the old jokes! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dead Horse Date: 24 Feb 04 - 06:15 AM Did somebody mention the Goons? (Mudcat Recovery Ward, somewhere at sea) Nurse Ratched: "Three of the patients drowned last night, Matron" Matron: "How did that happen?" Nurse Ratched: "Poor fools tried to tunnel their way out!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 24 Feb 04 - 08:48 AM Eccles can you see ahead? Yes a dirty great bald one. Ah doomp a doomp a doomp a doomp a doo. Shut-up Eccles. Ying tong yiddle i po! He's fallen in the water! You filthy rotten swine, I don't want to be deaded! etc......John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dave Bryant Date: 24 Feb 04 - 11:51 AM Nurse Ratched - "- and the smell of burnt leopardskin is not appealing. I'm coming." - so you do get turned on now and again. I don't think that you'd find getting Limpit to clear up her room a mere domestic chore - in fact you might find you'd met your match in aforesaid female infant. Alfred Annoyes - Do you really think that she'd do those things to me ? Up in Soho those sort of services would cost a fortune. . . . . Dou you think that she'd dress up in black PVC while she was at it ? Nurse - bring some tissues quickly ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Feb 04 - 07:07 PM Hope someone's saved a bed for CatsPhiddle, she's having her leg pulled tomorrow. Hook up the IV gin and warm the bed up Nurse! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Feb 04 - 04:16 AM Does that mean she'll be even taller? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Dave Bryant Date: 25 Feb 04 - 04:16 AM I'd warm up Khatt's bed any day - it'll have to be an extra long one. Good luck Khatt - I hope it all goes well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: GUEST,nurse ratched Date: 25 Feb 04 - 05:37 PM .....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............................... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Feb 04 - 06:22 PM Dave - have you seen how far she can reach with those crutches? I'd be getting a head start if I were you! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: John MacKenzie Date: 27 Feb 04 - 07:05 AM Yes Dave, don't make Khatt go all crutchety. Remember the Incredible Hulk, 'you wouldn't like me when I'm mad'. I don't suppose Khatt goes green though. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Feb 04 - 11:26 AM catsPHiddle should be out of surgery now. Any news? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Recovery Ward From: Gillie Date: 03 Mar 04 - 05:03 AM Khatts back home and being well looked after. Im recovering in Maderia (dont rate Portugese hospitals at all.) Flying back Monday 8th March. Diagnosis Hertious hernia - possible little ulcers. Gillie |
