Last week we were getting ready for work when the phone rang.
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- Who could it be? I hope it’s not what I think it is.
- No, I don’t think so but let’s find out.
Five minutes later I found out.
- You won’t believe this : the hospital has asked for the crank
- The crank?
- Yes the crank. That’s the instrument used to raise and lower the Fowler’s Bed.
- But why would they ask for it now?
- Because another patient in the hospital who is using the bed needs to be raised and lowered.
- But why do they want ours?
- Because there is only ONE crank in the hospital.
- So what do we suggest we do?
- One suggestion was to go to ‘Chor Bazaar” and buy one since spares aren’t available as Fowler’s beds are discontinued.
As it turned out, there was no need to go to the flea market ( Chor Bazaar) as the issue of the crank was solved with the simple spanner from the tool box.
I didn’t know what crank was until I read this post.
Thanks for reading!
What kind of hospital asks its patients to get the needed medical aids? arent they supposed to provide it all? This sounded so crazy; glad it was resolved without much ado.
Yes it was a crazy hospital. Thank God it’s all resolved now
Ha ha…For a moment I thought you were calling your ‘resident doctor’ a crank! 😉
she is cranky no doubt ! But this was the real crank that was needed to raise and lower the bed.
Why would the hospital make such a strange request? Glad it got sorted out
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They had only one crank !
Thought only the politicians in the country are crazy! They have a company here.
Happy that you got the sane and simple solution to the challenge.
Daily tools for new situations in life indeed!!!! But as long as the matter got sorted with a humble spanner, life is good !!!
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Yes it’s strange how a spanner could do it !
Which hospital in Mumbai is this, Sunita??? They have just one crank?
Thank god for small mercies, though, that the issue got fixed!
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I didn’t know it was called crank. Liked the way you ended the post. Spanner comes to the rescue ?
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The mechanism for the bed is actually a crank shaft hence the crank !