Night shift

What is in the bag

My duty bag, so you can see I am serious:

• stethoscope (mine, not the hospital's: the hospital's has a crack)


• two pens, one blue, one red


• a thermos of black tea with sugar, 750 ml


• four boorsoks from my mother, wrapped in a newspaper


• woollen socks


• a charger, because the sockets in the duty room work like moods

Things I do not have in the bag: a phone with credit. I top up on the first of the month and by the twentieth I am a free woman.