In hospital :(

[slowmotion]

Are you in an eight man ward? There's a certain "Dunkirk Spirit" in wards where the survivors are in the same boat. All thoughts of modesty go right out of the window really quickly. Quite liberating really.

Edit: A huge male nurse came to take the small hose out of the end of my willy after a couple of days. " Don't bother with the curtains...they squeak."

 

[Zeffer]

There's four in my ward. All cheering me when I try to walk. I feel so useless today and the pain is still acute. Thanks for keeping me going.

 

[Col5632]

Ouch, sounds painful, GWS

 

[Dave7]

Funny how perceptions are so different. I could not be happier with the staff who have fixed me up and are now helping me to walk. Chap opposite me seems to think every detail is wrong. The cup is too hot at the moment. They should cool the tea. His visitor is not set up for such long visiting hours and should have been warned she may need a snack or something to read. Seems a pleasant chap on the whole and is egging me on when at the handlebars of my alloy framed Zimmer. I guess we are all unwell and now I've just had my moan as well!

More memories coming back
I was in for 8 days the first time........mainly because of blood loss.
The guy opposite was a real raw scouser. I had a 3ay catheter in which took care of No 1's. On day 4 I managed to stagger to the toilet and 'crawling' back into the ward this scouser said (nice and loud)......."bloody hell Dave.....you look like a bag of boiled shite". Everything you want to hear when you feel like er, well um, like a bag of boiled shite
Good to see things are moving in the right direction for you.

 

[Sara_H]

There's four in my ward. All cheering me when I try to walk. I feel so useless today and the pain is still acute. Thanks for keeping me going.

When I was in hospital following my NDE I was on a ward with a lot of old ladies who seemed to want to mother me. Unfortunately I was still in a bit of shock about my close scrape with the grim reaper and kept having bouts of quite hysterical tears. I got moved into a cubicle on my own because I was upsetting the old ladies!

 

[jefmcg]

When I was in hospital following my NDE I was on a ward with a lot of old ladies who seemed to want to mother me. Unfortunately I was still in a bit of shock about my close scrape with the grim reaper and kept having bouts of quite hysterical tears. I got moved into a cubicle on my own because I was upsetting the old ladies!

@Zeffer - can you cry easily? This might be a good trick to get you a private room

 

[Pale Rider]

A private room has disadvantages.

I've spoken to a couple of people who felt abandoned once when they were in one, and time can hang heavily.

When I was in for my hip, the thought of being on a ward with lots of (other) smelly blokes didn't appeal.

But the comings and goings I could observe from my bed made the experience bearable, even enjoyable in parts.

If I had a choice, it would be a ward for me.

 

[vickster]

I'm a really light sleeper and hate snoring, so a ward would be awful for me!
Private room when I have my shoulder done, just in for one night. Bad enough with the noise from the corridor outside

 

[Pale Rider]

Snoring was a downside for me, although I was so hyped up by what was my first stay in hospital I didn't feel much like sleeping anyway.

One night in a private room might be preferable, but several could be a jail sentence.

 

[vickster]

Snoring was a downside for me, although I was so hyped up by what was my first stay in hospital I didn't feel much like sleeping anyway.

One night in a private room might be preferable, but several could be a jail sentence.

I did two after my accident, fist night I felt awful anyhow due to the infection and they gave me a sleeping pill, the second, the anaesthetic knocked me out

 

[Mrs M]

I found a ward is ok if not feeling too bad but a private room was better if feeling rotten and just wanting to sleep.

 

[Zeffer]

Did have my first weep in years this morning. Realised that a year is a long time and to go from 100km bike rides to one step every few seconds all got too much. No private room, but felt good to get it out of my system, even if embarrassed by it.

 

[Gatters]

no embarrassment zeffers, hey man I cry watching ET, guaranteed

 

[ColinJ]

Snoring was a downside for me, although I was so hyped up by what was my first stay in hospital I didn't feel much like sleeping anyway.

One night in a private room might be preferable, but several could be a jail sentence.

I spent 9 days in a ward with 3 strangers and didn't get a good night's sleep the whole time that I was there. I haven't shared a room with anyone that I know for that long in my life!

I would have been happy not to have seen another patient the whole time that I was in the hospital. Seeing people as ill as me didn't make me feel better. Chatting to a lovely man who confided that he had terminal cancer but couldn't bring himself to tell his wife and kids really upset me, especially since they were gathered round his bed a few hours later and he kept up the pretence of a possible recovery ...

 

[fossyant]

I spent two days in a private room after a big fall out with an extremely arrogant old man that was horrible to the nurses.

I returned to the ward after he was discharged. I lost it as the guy next to me had a major bleed that night and the nurses were working on him, but the old chap was demanding attention for a shoulder injury. The guy next to me nearly died.

I hated the time in the private room - frosted glass, no view other than a wall. Didn't see a soul. At least in a ward you can watch the world go by - one night might be OK, but over 6 weeks isn't !!