The seats faced backwards so medical personnel could face the patients…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I was not medical personnel;<\/p>\n
I was a 6 year old child flying home with my Mother<\/p>\n
On the only flight available<\/p>\n
To get ‘home’ from home – RAF Wildenrath – quickly,<\/p>\n
So we sat there obediently –<\/p>\n
My phobias and me<\/p>\n
Wincing each time the curtains were drawn back to reveal<\/p>\n
One of the nurses to administering some treatment that was necessary,<\/p>\n
Or providing pain relief – at least to some degree,<\/p>\n
My hands clasped in a prayer that it would<\/p>\n
not involve blood.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I was not medical personnel<\/p>\n
I was a 6 year old girl<\/p>\n
With – what at the time I had no way of being able to tell-<\/p>\n
What was only later understood<\/p>\n
To have been a Most Peculiar Childhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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