Confessions of a Nurse Ch. 01: Willy
I was a naive little 18-year old when I started working as a nurse in England in 1967. I was a virgin -- most good 18-year old girls were in those days -- and I had had very few boyfriends. I'd seen naked male bodies during my nursing training, of course, but apart from some kissing and the occasional teenage fumbling hand inside my bra I'd never had any real sexual experiences. That was soon to change.
I worked mainly with three other women on my ward -- Hyacinth, a smiling, roly-poly West Indian nurse in her thirties, who rather mothered me; Diana Curtis, a cynical upper-class bitch of about 25 who didn't really want to be there; and our supervisor, Sister Tanner. She was an Irish woman of 40 with a fearsome reputation, but she was always very kind to me. She frequently snapped Diana's head off, but she spoke gently to me, laughing off my silly mistakes, unfussily showing me the right way to do things, and giving me warm smiles and encouraging words whenever we ran into each other. Diana once told me, laughing rather nastily, "You want to watch yourself with that old dyke Tanner, darling. She's got her eyes on you." Innocent as I was, I didn't know what the term 'dyke' meant. I asked my big sister and, when she'd finished pissing herself laughing at me she told me in very crude terms exactly what it meant.
Hyacinth was very helpful to me as well, but Diana really was a lazy cow. She would frequently wheedle Hyacinth into massaging her feet towards the end of a shift, and, to Hyacinth's disgust, she made no secret of her ambitions. "I've got no intention of spending the next 30 years in this mausoleum around the sick and dying. As soon as I've got my hooks into some nice rich surgeon, and fucked the bugger into marrying me, you won't see me for dust." One day, as we were sitting taking a rare break, Diana, lounging in an old armchair with a cigarette hanging from her mouth, gave me one of her smiles that meant she wanted something. "Sally darling, it's time for old Willy Martin's bed bath. You wouldn't be an angel and do it for me would you? I think I've done something to my back and I can't really bend." I knew that if I agreed I would be lumbered with the task for good. Reflecting that Diana's relaxed position in the soft chair would do nothing for her supposedly bad back I grudgingly said that I would. When I checked the patient list on the wall I saw he was listed as George Martin, and asked Diana why she had called him Willy. Hyacinth hissed in irritation, and Diana gave a barking laugh. Speaking around the fag clamped between her lips, she muttered "You'll find out dear." As I left the room I heard Hyacinth scold, in an outraged tone, "Diana, really, what you think you do to that child?"
It was not uncommon for patients to be given bed baths. Strictly speaking it should have been a male orderly who did it, but for some reason we didn't have one, so I got my equipment together and sought out Mr Martin. He was in a private room off the main ward, which I knew must have cost a pretty penny. When I entered the room it was in semi-darkness, and I saw an old, gaunt man lying on his side in bed, reading a newspaper by the light of a small torch. He was actually in his mid-60s, but to an 18-year old he seemed ancient. When he saw me he said "Hello dear, you're new, what's happened to catty Curtis?" Ignoring his cheeky reference to Diana I moved towards the curtains and asked if he wanted me to open them. "No thanks doll, the bright light hurts me eyes."
I didn't know what was wrong with Mr Martin, but he certainly didn't look well. He had wispy grey hair, sunken cheeks and a very pale complexion. He was tall and lean, although it was clear that he'd been in pretty good physical condition at one time, with the residue of well defined muscles in his arms and across his chest. He had a warm smile and twinkling blue eyes, surrounded by deep laughter lines. He told me with a chuckle, "Dishy Diana normally starts on my back -- saving the best till last", and rolled onto his belly. I helped him out of his striped pyjama jacket and washed his upper body while he made little comments about news stories he'd been reading. Then I pulled his pyjama bottoms down, which wasn't easy as his legs were quite weak. As I wiped a damp flannel between the cheeks of his bum he sighed and murmured, "Ooh that's nice love, you've got a much lighter touch than Diana."
I asked the old boy to turn over and he said, "You'll have to help me -- it takes ages on my own." He put his arm around my neck and I helped him turn. It was an awkward position, and for a few seconds his face pressed deep into my bust through my uniform apron and dress -- accidentally, I assumed at the time. While regaining my breath -- he was a dead weight and I'm only five-feet-two -- I stood back to assess the task in hand, and gave an involuntary gasp. Standing out from a mesh of grey pubic hair was a long, thick, very erect penis. I'd seen very few outside anatomical text books, but this looked an absolute monster. (To this day, decades later, it still ranks as about the biggest I ever saw.) Now I understood why Diana nicknamed Mr Martin 'willy'. He glanced down at his cock, looked at my shocked face and gave me a big grin. "Sorry about that dear. Don't worry, it won't bite you."