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I think the worst thing about being in a hospital is taking blood out of you every hour. My local hospital would not use the same IV outlet to take blood from. So another place on arms to have another needle put in.
My other major hospital which is St Thomas hosptal in Nashville did a better job taking blood. Only one IV outlet for seven days of my stay.
The second time I was in ICU for a week following my aneurysm.
Both times I felt sort of comforted to be in a hospital with people around me. I've lived by myself for decades and it's sure is a different feeling when you don't have to worry about taking care of yourself when you're sick. The nurses and doctors were pretty decent. They took the time to stop by and kept me in the loop about what was going to happen and when. And they really did go out of their way a couple times to make sure I was OK. When I first came in with a headache, I asked for something to read and one of them hunted down an aviation magazine for me. That was exactly the type of thing I'd read even with a pounding headache.
You had a BRAIN aneurysm? How were you not freaked out?
I was in the hospital for abdominal surgery. My roommate had constant loud visitors, up to six at a time. I was trying to be a good sport, so I dragged myself out of bed and hobbled down to the lounge to do some reading. When I got back, the curtain between our beds had been pulled back and one of her visitors was STRETCHED OUT ON MY BED, boots up and all and watching TV. I went ballistic. They moved me to a single room.
#2 thing I hate almost the most: my roommate.
Another abdominal surgery. I had been there a couple of days and got a new roommate. First of all, she wanted MY side of the room because it was by the window. She demanded that I be moved. Nope, not happening.....I was there first. Then when my husband came in after work, she hit the buzzer and screeched that she WOULD NOT TOLERATE a man in the room. They ended up moving her out.
#3 thing I hate, too: The doctor who is going to be there "any minute now" to discharge you.
Yet another surgery. It was only supposed to be outpatient surgery, but they decided to keep me overnight. Starting at 9 a.m. the next morning, they said I could go home "as soon as the doctor makes his rounds and discharges me as I cannot be discharged until the doctor saw me." I hear this on about an hourly basis until 4 p.m., when they come in and said I was being discharged. Did I ever see the doctor? Hell, no. In the meantime, they have people in beds in the hallway because they don't have rooms available. Sheesh.
I think the worst thing about being in a hospital is taking blood out of you every hour. My local hospital would not use the same IV outlet to take blood from. So another place on arms to have another needle put in.
My other major hospital which is St Thomas hosptal in Nashville did a better job taking blood. Only one IV outlet for seven days of my stay.
Yes, sometimes they treat you like a pin cushion!
I've had so much blood drawn and so many IVs in me my veins are no longer very good.
Just one more thing for the vampire to deal with.
Worst is when they can't find my rolling veins and just keep jabbing the needle into my flesh! ( " a little pinch" they say, little pinch my butt! Its a JAB into my flesh).
You had a BRAIN aneurysm? How were you not freaked out?
My coworker has TWO brain aneurysms, and one in her neck.
Still works the overnight shift, 4 days a week while awaiting "exploratory proceedure" for them to decide what to do about the three aneurisms!!! And still smokes too.
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I've spent something like 60 nights in the hospital in the last dozen years. I bring earplugs and a sleep mask and I still get no sleep.
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Hope you didn't take a valuable watch in with you. You're lucky you were awake enough to stop her...
1) due to several chronic continuous medical issues, I've spent quite a bit of time in the hospital. I also have a sleep mask that covers my ears, too. Works great at home, but not in the hospital!
Naw, it was a $10 cheapy watch from Wally World. But it looks expensive.
You are right lucky i caught her. She was from sone country in Africa,. No disrespect intended to those from there who don't try to steal, IF that,was,what she was doing.
I just spent 36 hours in the hospital. Atrial-fibrillation and with pneumonia in the left lung. A new wrinkle to add to premature ventricular complexes or contractions.
Now a-fib won't kill me, but it could cause a clot to lead to a stroke, and the pneumonia was a total surprise to us all, staff and me and my OH and a close friend who accompanied my OH to the ER.
I think the worst thing is trying to sleep in a hospital. They gave me a sedative to put me to sleep. I slept for all of one hour before some....ahem....nurses aid came in at 12 midnight to take bp with a malfunctioning automatic bp machine, then in my lucid state tried taking my watch off!!! I said "' what the (heck) you doing? '". She said she needed my watch off to take bp. I said "'(horsepuckies), they had been taking it all day with the watch ON my wrist'".
Than at 3:50 ( by the clock on the wall and my still on watch), the vampire came in,
then at 5 am they came in to take yet another EKG.
At 6:30 They took me down for Echo cardiogram.
So my "sedative/ sedated sleep" was severely disrupted.
Many think the food sucks, but I find the food quite palatable.
It's sleeping when ill and (usually exhausted), I miss when in the hospital.
How about you? What do you hate about being in (admitted) the hospital?
As a nurse I can tell you if we let you get your sleep and you dropped dead in the middle of the night, there'd be a lawsuit. Do you think we want to be waking cranky rude patients up at midnight and 4 am to take vitals? Hell no. But because we do, we find some people who need immediate intervention so they don't die. You're in the hospital to STAY ALIVE, not get "well", that's for home or outpatient rehab.
You're welcome.
PS... so glad I don't work in a hospital anymore thanks to ungrateful, know-it-all patients like so many on this thread...
The worst thing is knowing that anyone pops in the room even for a split second you are going to get billed hundreds of dollars, and it feels like a swarm of parasites wanting to descend to do things to you that are not necessary.
You can thank our sue-happy, looking-for-a-windfall culture for that. If the docs don't order every test and specialist they can think of for your illness, they leave the door wide open for a lawsuit if the patient gets his panties in a bunch over something.
That your rights are taken away and you are tied down if attempted to leave.
It's basically jail except your not only locked in but tormented.
You have no idea what you're talking about. It's called leaving AMA: against medical advice. People do it all the time, and no one is tied down to prevent them from leaving, unless perhaps a psych patient in a mental ward or a patient threatening suicide/homicide.
"What is the WORST thing about a hospital stay?" The bills you get after it's over.
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