Looks like you took the comments badly - small token, militant lycra warrior, high dependency unit, 10 years after, big box, bad person etc. Thats pretty loaded.Thank you to all the parishioners who have given me advice. I never realised that wanting to give a small token to a medic was such a minefield of etiquette.
From the little I know, she has just started to wobble about. She never expressed an interest in becoming a militant lycra warrior or going far from home. Anyway, thanks to all who have posted.
BTW, I gave the nurses of the High Dependency Unit at Hammersmith Hospital a big box of chocolates on the anniversary of my operation, for ten years after the event. I must be a very bad person.
Relax, it was addressing your original post of giving one particular nurse a gift that you had become familiar with over routine appointments to encourage her in cycling. If you said you were coming out of life threatening operation and wanted to show your appreciation with a box of chocolates to nurses as a group, it's a wholly different thing.