This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s 70s & 80s most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum to see her friend Ms Fairweather the matron at the local nursing home & from that day on she knew she wanted to be a nurse. A few years later despite being told that her grades weren't good enough & having left school with only two O-Levels Susan was accepted on the three-year nurses training course at Addenbooke's hospital in Cambridge. It wasn't long before Susan knew she wanted to work with children & set her sights on a job at Great Ormond Street. Thirty-five years later on her third attempt Susan has finally retired from that iconic hospital & is enjoying a more leisurely pace of life. Hope despair laughter & tears Susan's stories move the reader through the incredible stories that she was faced with on an every day basis.