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A tale based on the day I took my partner for a check up at my local hospital and the heating had been dead for weeks... and it was January!
By the way, in case they don’t have a USA branch, Iceland is a frozen food store.

Nhs - No Heating, Sorry

Went to St Richards early today
Had an appointment so that was okay
The problem is this; I went in with a hernia
But when I came out... I had hyperthermia

Whilst no radiator did radiate heat
And I was laid out like a chilled cut of meat
The staff got abuse from a quite irate geyser
‘I'm going to Iceland to sit in the freezer’

They prodded and scanned me right down to my toes
And broke off the icicle hung from my nose
They asked if I'd registered my next of kin
I said, ‘That's her there with the goosebumpy skin’

When they lifted my gown and asked me to cough
They snapped what they thought was an icicle off
The chill numbed the pain as they whipped off my wheener
So I went in as Terry and came out as Tina
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Wanter Avatar
November 28, 2018 at 6:33 PM
Clever, clever - might as well make it into a good laugh!
Allison Avatar
November 28, 2018 at 6:29 PM
ha ha ha that final stanza was priceless Tina oops I mean Terry:-) hugs jan xx
Flood Avatar
November 28, 2018 at 6:37 PM
Thanks, Jan. wouldn’t want to be without the NHS but I think they need a lottery win or some such thing.
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