Flood find: Poetry by a nurse at Napier Hospital
21 Dec, 2020 12:26 AM
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Lissa Colhoun is hoping to find the families of the patients her mother Jeanette Flora Pyke-Duthie (pictured) wrote about when she was a nurse in Napier. Photo / Warren Buckland
Nurse Flora Pyke didn t just give her patients care and compassion - she gave them life on the page, through poetry.
Her daughter, Napier woman Lissa Colhoun, was sorting through boxes salvaged from her shed after the Napier floods, when she found poems her late mother had written about patients during her time as a nurse at Napier Hospital.