Aisha Rahman

Tributes

• Remembering Merle Pearline Grant · 6y ago

  Former student nurse, Lewisham Hospital

  I was nineteen and had cried in the sluice room during my first week. Sister Grant handed me a mug of ginger tea and said, 'Now wash your face. Tomorrow you start being good at this.' I nursed for thirty years. I still don't know how she knew.