I LIKE being in the hospital

[Maine Mary]

Am I nuts or does anyone else feel this way?

Once the initial pain of whatever put me in there is gone and I am recovering, hospital living is not too bad. On one of my visits I had a nurse who gave me backrups for hours. "We can't have bedsores now can we." And "Oh dear, you must eat SOMETHING. I'll get them to make you something really good". Or "Oh honey, how is your pain? Do you need more Demerol?"

Ahhhhh.

[madrchsod]

ahhhh,did you eat yet???

it`s the food i couldn`t take.thank god i only had to eat a few meals...

[fishnfla]

1. You must be sick!

Get better. and get out, the longer you stay in there the greater chance you have of catching an antibiotic resistant bug.

[Maine Mary]

3. I'm not " in there"

just remenicsing.(sp?) :-)

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Last time I was hospitalized, I was 7 and they yanked my tonsils.

Kept puking blood. Nurse Ratchet yelled at me in the night for barfing blood on the bed. I HATE being in the hospital.

[oneighty]

2. Hospital is

the place to be when one is sick. Pray tell Mary? Why?
I hope you are OK!
Ed.

[Maine Mary]

4. I'm fine

thanks Ed.

Glad to see you are still around BTW. Alot of the DU old timahs seem to have disappeared. I'm glad you aren't one of them! :-)

[rbnyc]

6. OMG.

I don't know. You might be nuts.

Actually, I got great care when I was at the university hospital and then the private hospital for rehab. I also bonded with the nurses very much. But I couldn't wait to get out of there.

#1 reason, the food. #2, someone coming to stick things in my body ten times a day starting at about 6 am. #3, no internet!

[Lars39]

7. Mmmmm jello!!!!!

The most expensive jello ever, but goood! :)

[Don_G]

8. I Have No Idea

But had I known, I would have sent you some flowers and maybe asked Will Pitt to show up with a six-pack, Matcom, a dartboard and a fat, hairy cat to keep your mind off synthetic endorphins.

"He who laughs best, lasts...."

[Maine Mary]

10. LOL

Thanks but I'm fine.

Hmmmmmmmm........
A Will Pitt visit would do me some good though :evilgrin:

[WilliamPitt]

24. WTF are you doing in the hospital?

:(

[Malva Zebrina]

9. I try to stay out of those places

and I am a retired nurse with more than thirty five years experience.!!

One needs to take inventory of their life as they get older. It may or may not include hospital stays--however it does help to have someone other than hospital personel to take care of you as you get older. Hospital personal, in my opinion, although most innocent and sincere, are connected to a certain taught and learned mindset and that mindset favors them, the current trends, and what they have learned is the proper course for YOU--if you want to have a mindset that is yours alone ,and is based upon your perception of life , you need to confront yourself and take charge. It does help to discuss this with your family, if you have one. Seek those persons out now before you lose it to the illnesses and the perils of old age. If not, then one must confront reality--there will be few who will understand you as you get older, believe me. You will , in short time, become "irrelevant" and out of the mainstream, even though you do not think that is the case. Nevertheless, stick to your guns, for you know where it is that you want to go and how it is that you want to end this life. Make up your own mind what you will do to skate and navigate to the end of your life in dignity and take the appropriate course to insure that your wishes will be respected.

[blm]

11. That's how I felt after my Csection delivery....

That morphine kept the pain away. Two days later they stopped it.....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....................

[Ilsa]

19. You got two days on morphine for a C-sec?

Man, that's generous. They usually give one cylinder here, lasts about 18 hours on a PCA. Then you're on to Percocet.

[latebloomer]

21. I got the morphine drip for 2 days too

after my C-section. Wow, that was nice!! and i only pushed the extra hit button once or twice-- wasn't actually in pain, recreational purposes only.

But you're right-- when they yanked that thing out, postpartum set in with a vengeance!

[Booberdawg]

12. NOT ME!!!

For one thing, I smoke, so that's a major drawback right there.

I was hospitalized last March on an emergency basis for internal bleeding. The beds and pillows are made of plastic. I sweat the whole time I was there from just laying on the bed and having it stick to my butt, body, and my head was always soaking wet. Yecchh!

They CAN'T do IV meds and vitals at the same time and HAD to wake me up every hour or two. That's just at night. Have you ever had a colonoscopy? My back hurt for 3 days. Picture sticking an elephant's snout up your nevermind. Yeah, I SAW that sombitch before I went out. Holy Nipples of Mary?!?!?!!

I didn't get to eat until a few hours before I went home 3 days later. They brought me tea and broth, to which I countered with WTF??? I got a meal a couple hours later.

I did get to go outside to smoke after 2 days and signing my life away first, with IV on wheels and my butt covered with an extra gown and my jacket. It was COLD!! Damn, I was sure then that I needed to have my head examined.

I couldn't get outta there fast enough!! I got to leave at 9:00 p.m. in the evening because the Dr. was there and released me for morning, and I begged to go immediately. Lemme outta here! Please!!

[SiobhanClancy]

13. The only time I liked being in the hospital...

I came home with a beautiful baby girl:)

[flamingyouth]

14. Last time I was there I had sukiyaki

It wasn't bad. Of course, this is Seattle, and sukiyaki in a hospital is probably not a totally weird thing.

I hated being wakened all the time for my temp and BP, though.

[Timefortruth]

15. You're lucky, I usually get Nurse Cratchet

Complaining that the ventilator is takes too much of her time to suction.

[seaglass]

16. Yep, you're nuts

Seriously I have never seen the bright side of being in a hospital, good for you for finding it.

My last time in, I gave birth to my son at 7pm on a Friday night and was showered, dressed and waiting for my doctor to discharge me at 7am Saturday morning. I was home so fast I missed all my visitors.

I still have memories of being in the hospital when I was 5, and I've spent plenty of time at the hospital with my mother-in-law, father-in-law and my mom. I just dread walking through those doors.

[Maine Mary]

17. !4 hours?

Wow you were lucky. They pushed me out only 9 hours after I had given birth to my 9lb 6 oz baby girl. I wasn't ready. My 23 year old ex-hubby wasn't either. "Can't you shut that kid up" ? he'd scream. I breastfed so all he would have to do was get her, but wouldn't. I ripped my stitches several times in order to appease him. That was in 1985.

I thank God that they have since passed a law thst makes insurance co's pay for a reasonable amount of recovery time for new mothers.

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. As one who has recently spent a lot of time in hospitals ... I hate

them. The smell of used surgical bandages, the drag of an I.V. pole whenever I have to get up. Waiting in the dark of night/morning for a pain pill so I could get back to sleep...Yick, I live in fear and dread of the next time. Blech.

[blondeatlast]

20. I've been hospitalized about 6 times in the past 3 years, and I can

tell you, you can't beat it for rest. Work, husbands, children, all take a back seat. If you have great nurses, as I always have had, it's like a little vacation. I'm hoping the normally outpatient procedure I am having done in a few weeks will mean they will keep my overnite (diabetes, heart problems, anemia tend to complicate matters just a BIIIIT . . .).

But if you don't have decent insurance, you are simply forked--no fun at all.

[Andy_Stephenson]

22. Looks like your feeling better

anyway. Here is good news I have 400 names and a possible union endorsement.

[latebloomer]

23. Wow, they must have nice nurses in Maine!

Some of the NYC hospitals where I've visited people the nurses are so overworked and/or uncaring that it's virtually impossible to summon their services!

[SOteric]

25. No way. I just got out of the hospital a short while ago. Yech.

You know what I hate about it?

Not having my stuff. Not having my books, my computer, my big comfy sofa...

Not being to eat the things I like which I fill my pantry with.

Not being able to snuggle up with my cats.

Not having the sheets I like and just the right amount of pillows on the bed.

Not being able to just pick up the phone and arrange to meet a friend for coffee or drinks.

Being poked and prodded intrusively in miscellaneous places I would rather not be poked or prodded.

The way that hospitals smell, - all disinfectant and alchol. Bleah.

Oh, I think the list goes on, but I've ranted enough.


Very glad you're better, though. :hug:

[UrbScotty]

26. Of course, if a Republican surgeon knows you're a Democrat...

...you had better watch out. (S)He could give you an infection, and if it's bad enough, you could die.

Do you know how Dick Schaap died? He went in for a hip replacement at a supposedly respected hospital, and he got an infection. A couple months later, he died. I saw something about that on ABC this week.

I hope no Democrat gets 'Wellstoned' or 'Schaaped' in the hospital, be it a rank-and-file Democrat or a US Senator.

[Pale Blue Dot]

27. Listen, I've met you, and

If you ever need a backrub for hours, you don't have to go to the hospital!

[Crewleader]

28. Being in the hospital can be a mini vacation....

once the surgery is over and the pain pills kick in...your meals being prepared and making ya rest and sleep as much as you can between times they are taking blood at all hours...but too many times for me makes me want not to be in one again friend!
But I do understand your reasoning. :hi:

[Bertha Venation]

29. hell, yeah!

I liked that lovely little Morphine button bracelet. Mmmm.... morphine