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THE ERA The Era Newmarket- A Wed November The Second Section Sports News District News En 1 i HIM A ride on Cloud Nine means happy Era news editor George returned to work this week from a twomonth sojourn in hospital and at home recovering from a heart attack One of the first things he did when he got back was to write an account of the week he spent in York County Hospitals inten sive care unit NEWMARKET Cloud Nine with one of its wheels lacking its original shape made a slow and somewhat journey down the corridor of the third floor and finally made the tricky turn into the Intensive Care Unit area of York County Hospital Cloud Nino and its passenger made a four point landing the one reluctant wheel finishing up on its flat side with the chrome sides of a hospital bod Following the instructions pitied through on the muffled phone nurses swarmed around the stretcher and its passenger classified as ft pos sible cardiac The possible cardiac had received a purpose ful needle a floor or two below and his reactions lo the sudden attention wore My God its a good job sick this could Ik a glorious death The nurses three or four gathered around Cloud Nine and moved will trained accuracy to transfer the patient lo Ihe hospital bed one of three others situated in Ihe special ward area assigned to patients In It County Hospital who could require special specializ ed and almost constant The possible ermine had only been in Die presclnts of York County Hospital for less than but the history tests and bad shown id toward heart deterioration and only one place in the hospital could wove the point ihe Intensive Care landing excellent choice he way your wife makes it but your iol want what your wife cooks anyway To a patient suddenly told that he insfei from Care lo a drunk who had struck a few cement way down lo terra firms and broke a leg lie fluent some of the staff mil maybe the a series of three four and oven fiveletter words The patient on Cloud Nine was learning more specialized he ever could while he was Fit for Work He had visions of a kind Phil- lipine anil another Farmers Daughter type with all w Gradually the scene In tin four bed Intensive Care ward clarified itself Tins wis place of No Fear this wis a place nursing training and said with what we have learned this patient could return to a world where he or she might contribute something for the benefit of humanity Everything was there Oxygen was available Instantly on the wall behind Ihe bed no bells rang All directive lo the patient mil ids needs The patient was setting accustomed shock fails to materialize until the regular ward solicitously winds the bed level down lo the apHDiide arid reminds lint if you need nurse or Hit push the red button Somewhere between the and the regular ward care there is a nippy medium Somewhere between intense graduate and the just as conscientious stall of iho regular ward there is a dream ward where the patient bless his egoistic soul gradually can get acclimatized between four or five delightful and dedicated nurses to one patient to four or five just as dedicated nurses between patients somewhere where movement of an arm docs not nil an instant bedpan a series of blood pressure tests or an invasicn from the department York County Hospital is a wonderful place to be ny worlds apart for happy acceptance by either patient or floor staff Anyway if you are riding that Cloud Nine trol ley down the Third Floor corridor heading toward York Hospital intensive Care Unit fear not the rules arc rigid and sometimes scary but who stretcher used to bring In the Intensive Care Unit editor angels art Mrs llehlcu at It ami Judith AT RIGHT tests lieirin utter arrival Hi nurses tjuirt left anil met check patients sure 11EIOW more cheeks modern electrical over adjusts vhich records heart while Ml shon who has just luioked the up lo an emergence oxygen checks his pulse Whit photo for a day with 1 the service linked I all old mil was things that required list at home sedatives succeeding in overcoming Ihe genera and lion gap After a day or two in York Countys Intensive section one begins to realize the reason why out siders from York County say If I were sick dont think thai you are going lo lose out when you hit that elevator lo take you up a couple of floors to a more existence Its a veritable United Villous up there there is a charming smile from Hit a polite you almost wait for Ihe bow from China and the offhand Cone on male I got other patients thats needing me v or than you ml if litre trained in you wont get your sleeping pills until dawn East Gwillimbury Police Safely Awards were presented to in all the townships public schools I week TOP LEIT the from the Mount Albert School are from left John Masked school From left Chris Simpson Pete Piquet Lord I a llreeh Monica principal John and Ran Doner representing donor Brad Walker Slicker front Elizabeth Ryan Cindy loe Motors Third from left Holland Landing Public School Hen Da- Helm Ester Argyle Sincake Carol Cooper David Richard Frances and Mark Lottos Elizabeth Stanley Michelle Thomas Tom Principal PHOTOS Public School lloh Coats Hob Gerald stands left and plaque donor Dike is at right In Handy Morrison Susan Crawford Laura Grant Heather Clark the other picture at top teacher Peter Vale and plaque donor Ray Twin- principal John McLachlan and Ron Doner representing donor Iliad Walker School Crawford Peter Ihilip Wright Karen Johnston with the wii Our Lady of Go Ernie Graham Ron McCoy principal Mrs Jaques and donor Garfield Wright East reeve At right Maple Leaf Public School Wayne Stephen Shiran Foster principal Ron and donor John While photos