Relaxation techniques in the operating theatre... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Send In The Architects, by Leo Cullen above.
On silent wheels, the porter rolled my bed out of the ward. 'Awright, man?' he asked. ‘Alright,’ I said.
The journey had begun. Hospital-visitors in the elevator made space. The poor devil, their expressions said. And down, down, we went, floor after floor.
There was a different atmosphere on the floor he wheeled me onto: we’d left Civvy Street. He nudged me into a siding. ‘Changing you onto a trolley,’ he said, ‘which hip you having done?
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
