They set off to France where they start up a canteen for the wounded soldiers. Midge also becomes an ambulance driver as well as a nurse and is exposed to the horrors and devastating effects. The three girls realize that the war really is not the big adventure they thought it would be. Midge Macpherson experiences loss throughout the novel in a number of forms, personal loss, loss of home and loss of life. Midge makes her way through war, forcing a smile whilst serving at the canteen and working as an ambulance driver.
It was upon caring for the soldiers when Nightingale the connection between death, infection, disease, and the filthy living conditions these men were exposed to. Nightingale pushed her staff of 38 to clean their hands and sanitize all tools. It was through this practice that Nightingale would show the world the direct link between healing and sanitization. In 1861 Clara Barton started her journey to become one of the world’s most influential nurses as well. Barton was a union war nurse who was often found on the battlefield nursing the injured.
Anja is the mother of Art and the Wife of Vladek. Being a fragile character right from the beginning, when Anja was in the Holocaust, she became increasingly ill, both physically and emotionally. Hence, even if Anja survived through all the insanity in the concentration camps, the depressions and breakdowns might have made her commit suicide. In Maus I, Spiegelman showed the reader that Vladek and Anja already developed a strong bond and this was evident throughout their time together in World War II. The couple hid in a cellar house where there was no food, Vladek said “Here Anja, chew on this.
Once she is at the doctor’s office in Natchez, the nurse asks her about her grandson, and Phoenix doesn’t answer for several minutes because she forgot the reason she made the journey. Phoenix encounters racism as another obstacle when a white man hunting with his dog happens upon her and helps her out of the ditch. The hunter points the
Nafas hires a family to take her from Iran into Afghanistan but is abandoned by the patriarchal father/husband when bandits rob their traveling party of their vehicle and possessions. Eventually she falls in with a young boy named Khak (Teymouri) recently expelled by the mullah from his religious/military training school. For $50 Khak leads her toward Kandahar. They must first seek a doctor (Tantai) when she falls ill from drinking disease riddled water wells. The doctor turns out to be an black American who has fought for years in Afghanistan but after spending time in a Kandahar prison has become a medical practitioner despite a lack of formal training.
Many of the injured individuals were injured by grenades, gaseous agents, bombs, or bullets. These weapons lead to missing limbs, broken bones, and the nurses seen blood every day. Hospitals were developed, medicines were created, surgical procedures, and even the ambulance all were developed during World War One. The individuals hurt severely had to have immediate care or they would die, and most of those hurt eventually died. In the field of medicine, physicians were familiar with Louis Pasteur’s germ theory and knew of Joseph Lister’s discoveries in the fields of bacteriology and antisepsis.
From small cuts to amputations and more, women underwent the most gruesome constants of war first hand. If surgery was necessary, it consisted of two nurses holding down the soldier and the surgeon working on him with no pain medicine. They witnessed many horrific things from a personal viewpoint influencing these nurses and their diaries & journals.After the war, the field of nursing was changed. Nursing became the profession for mostly all women. The war made society view women as willing to give themselves up to others.
Ever since the moment she was mutilated, Dirie knew she had to help women escape the trauma she had experienced. From a young age she knew the mutilation she survived was wrong; years later, after having corrective surgery she reached out to women, helping them heal physically and emotionally, and by doing this the Desert Flower Foundation emerged. Realizing the horror of FGM was a shock to Dirie; she was willing to do anything to stop it. Dirie explained that in Somalia it is believed that there are bad things between a girl’s legs, causing her to be dirty, oversexed and even unmarriageable unless she undergoes infibulation. Infibulation is the most extreme type of FGM.
The women recruited were women over 30. Their responsibilities included giving medications and dressing wounds. Because of the deplorable conditions many of the nurses died as they were
Enter Ruby Thewes , a plain-speaking freespirit who offers to help Ada rebuild the farm in exchange for meals and lodging. A bargain is struck and the two begin a mutually beneficial partnership that develops into a friendship. He's a Confederate soldier horrified by the awful things he's done to others, and had done to him. She's a delicate beauty who, in times of privation, must learn to work the land her father's left her. A thousand miles separate Inman and Ada from each other.