My friend told me a story
about when she was pretty much permanently in the cancer ward when she was a kid. Some of the nurses decided to cheer her up and brought in super soakers, buckets of water and so on. They went up to a floor that was being developed and had a massive water fight.

My hospital had nothing like that- it did, however, have a SuperNintendo with Aladdin on it. My brother used to sneak in to the hospital on visiting days and pretend he was sick so we could play together. :-)

(One console between two wards is quite bad. We used to go on missions to steal it from the other kids. There was also a Buckaroo set which we used as a makeshift catapult.)

EDIT: Might as well add some more.

When I was first admitted to hospital for dermatological investigation (aged 7) I had a series of abscesses on my legs that were infected. If you'd looked at me you'd have thought I was well, as I could sit on the floor and play lego with my brother quite happily. The matron on duty came into the room and screamed at me, "What's going on?! Aren't you supposed to be ill?!" As soon as she realised what was going on, a simper of extremely patronising levels appeared. "Ah, so you're the little girl who's here with the itches?"

A completely different nurse was on night shift that week during a massive thunderstorm. There were only three people in the ward that week- me, a kid with a broken leg, and a girl with asthma. We all woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. So we sat on the bed of the guy in traction and the nurse taught us how to play poker.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, 2 replies)

I wish i had a nurse like that
all of mine have been big black 6ft tall and angry
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:13, closed)

I like this.
I really like this. I spent quite a lot of nights in Great Ormond St. aged 6 and the one night there was a thunderstorm, the number of nurses and friendly people on the ward seemed to double, just to make sure all the kids were OK and not scared. Brilliant.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 13:55, closed)