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This is an old revision of CelesteVisitsHospital made by AnnCarpenter on 2013-02-04 17:38:01.
<#ann:Celeste has been saying for years that she is going to train as a nurse when she is older. She has studied as much anatomy as possible, spent hours talking to Minnie about plants, etc. So she is thrilled when Mrs. Black arranges for her to visit the hospital to shadow a member of the nursing staff. She talks about it for days, and everyone is sick of hearing about it.
The day finally arrives and Celeste leaves early in the morning, almost too nervous to eat before leaving. She returns just as dinner is ending, uncharacteristically quiet. She claims she is very tired, and decides to skip dinner in favor of just washing up and going to bed. <#court: Jeanne sneaks some food into her napkin and brings it up after dinner to see if she wants some. #>If anyone presses <#jonah: (and Ollie definitely asks her about it!) #>, she just says that the day didn't go quite as she had expected. If there revelries in the tower that night, Celeste does not join in. <#court: Jeanne skips revelries as well and either talks to Celeste, if she feels like talking, or just stays in the bedroom with her. #>
<#jonah: I think Ollie, having got the message that she didn't want to talk about it that night, would wait until the following day ask if everything was ok, and how the nursing day went. #>
Celeste's fervor for nursing wanes noticeably in the next week or so. She continues to try to heal the other children when they are sick (which I'd imagine, with the exception of Erin, is very rarely given our genetics) and their small hurts and wounds, but she stops talking about doing it as a career. The next few months she seems a little lost, but gradually gets back to her normal. #>
<#kate: Ella observes the situation but doesn't bring it up directly to Celeste. When Celeste decides to come back out to the Tower, however, Ella quietly beings singing one of the songs Celeste seemed to most enjoy (whether from the piano lessons, Cole's harmonica, dancing, or the various tunes she's brought back over the past few months). She offers Celeste an encouraging grin as she attempts to offer a fanciful escape, if only momentary, for Celeste's seemingly troubled thoughts. #>
<#ann: While it takes awhile for to get it all out of her, if the others press, Celeste tells them that the doctors were mean, the patients were mean, and that the nurses didn't get to do anything that helped, they were just being servants, really. And did she mention that the doctors were mean? And they don't listen to nurses even when the nurses are trying to say something important about a patient's health. If even further pressed (you can decide if your character gets that far) she acknowledges that really the role that would be best for her would be as a doctor, but that there is no medical school that would accept her, so that's that. She'll figure out something else. She's sad, but realistic. #>
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