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To enjoy being in hospital?

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startingtolooklikemother · 03/09/2016 20:58

I fell slipped and fell over on the worlds smallest hill on Friday and managed to dislocate my foot as well as breaking my ankle in 3 places
Thing is I'm actually enjoying being in hospital even though I thought it was going to be awful. The food isn't bad, I can't walk so someone brings me loads of cups of tea, changed my bed, plumps my pillows and generally feels sorry for me. yesterday I spent all day in bed eating Jaffa cakes watching day time to and slightly off my face on morphine
I know it's not exactly where I would choose for a mini break but compared to home life its a doddle
Of course I miss my DS and DH but god it's lovely having everyone run round after me.

OP posts:
elliejjtiny · 03/09/2016 21:58

I loved my stay in the antenatal ward. Postnatal ward was hell though. Get well soon op.

RB68 · 03/09/2016 22:01

I can see your point about a rest. I have done this to both ankles at different times and its a good job you are on the morphine - lol. Take your time going home - its hell trying to even get a cup of tea into the lounge with crutches and one leg. I can recommend getting a trolley to wheel stuff round on

KC225 · 03/09/2016 22:03

Hahaha Saucy

PovertyPain · 03/09/2016 22:05

Thank you, Best.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 03/09/2016 22:05

God I hate being in hospitals. Hate it. I'm either planning an escape or attempting one! It's my idea of hell.

Get well soon though! And enjoy it, I'm glsd some people do Smile

Bigfatnope · 03/09/2016 22:07

Hospitalexpert- brain surgury and only paracetemol Shock Flowers

wigglybeezer · 03/09/2016 22:09

I remember my mum being admitted on Xmas eve with appendicitis when I was a kid, she said it was her best Xmas for years!

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suchafuss · 03/09/2016 22:11

I was once in hospital for 3 months and although I couldn't walk i felt really well in myself. I had a routine every morning and after a shower would put on my make up and then read all day long. One nurse used to joke that I must have been treating my stay like a spa break because my blood pressure was always lowGrin

SabineUndine · 03/09/2016 22:13

The only times I've been in hospital, I've felt far too ill to enjoy it. Also, I get really hot feet and can't sleep. But good for you, managing to find a positive in a broken ankle!

Feilin · 03/09/2016 22:18

3 days in being induced having baby . Loved it . 3 days back in bad infection retained products. Awesome. So relaxing . Not afraid to say the care was fab and I just relaxed .

SWIMonBluelight · 03/09/2016 22:21

Love it, but then I spent most of my early years in so it sort of makes sense. The sleep, drugs and total lack of responsibility are great. After ds was born I didn't want to leave.

elephantoverthehill · 03/09/2016 22:27

They picked up that DS2 had an irregular heart beat when I was pregnant with him. I didn't have to stay in hospital but had to go regularly to have his heart beat monitored. I just had to lie on a bed for over an hour every so often. Bliss.

Oblomov16 · 03/09/2016 22:29

I have enjoyed every time I've been in hospital. Peace and quiet, meals and all snacks and cups of tea provided, nothing to do, total bed rest, no trouble sleeping - I can sleep anywhere. What's not to like?

S1lentAllTheseYears · 03/09/2016 22:31

I love this thread and am glad to find I am not the only one who really enjoyed being in hospital with baby number two! Manic toddler safely parked with Gran, snuggly newborn in his cot beside me and zero responsibility for five days - bliss! I also cried when I got home, toddler was being cute but manic and I just wanted to get back in the car! Not even the snoring like a warthog woman in the next bed could put me off!

Had a hysterectomy a few year back though, hated every last second of it and staggered home the instant they let me go! No toddlers at home anymore which probably had a lot to do with it!

GColdtimer · 03/09/2016 22:32

RB, I had forgotten that. Add to the broken leg and crutches a 3 storey house, a 2 year old and a DH who worked evenings. Bloody he'll that was hard work! Confused

So sorry poverty. X

dowhatnow · 03/09/2016 22:34

I didn't like my private room, it was boring. They wouldn't move me when I wanted to be nosey and see all the activity going on.

Having said that, I've previously spent a completely sleepless night on a ward with a doolally old lady attacking the staff and security, swearing and flashing her bits as she tried to get out of bed. She pulled her catheter out and sprayed urine over them. It took ages to get forms signed to sedate her. The next day the staff gave her family a very watered down version of what went on, and it was funny to hear them talking about it in disbelief, thinking it was exaggerated. I think it was an infection and totally uncharacteristic of her, but I was just thinking "if only you knew".

I think I can safely say I'd prefer an extended stay in a real hotel. I know there would be guilt but hard as it would be, I'm sure I'd cope.

Sara107 · 03/09/2016 22:35

Oh, I am amazed by this, some hospitals sound quite nice. My local hospital is beyond grim. I had a night there once for an imaginary illness (my GP misdiagnosed ovulation pains as acute appendicitis) and I was put onto a mixed ward. The 'care' was haphazard at best (I had a drip in my arm and I was watching this big air bubble moving up the tube, wondering what would happen when it entered my vein) - I mainly survived because I was young and healthy. And there was an elderly lady with dementia left on a trolley in the corridor outside who screamed for hours into the night 'please don't let me die here, they're going to kill me, I don't want to die here'.
When dD was born it was hardly better, there was no nursing care. I didn't get anything to eat for nearly 24 hrs and was expected to take the dressing off the c section wound myself. They told me to soak it in the shower to make it easier I could barely even stand.
We got out but were back after her 5 day check, in a private room. I didn't have breakfast any day, because the breakfast was only served from 8 til 8.30 but dh wasn't allowed in til 9 and I didn't want to leave dD alone in the room. There was one chair in the room which I needed to sit on because I wasn't comfy sitting on the bed. So dh sat on the bed and got given out to by the nurses (beds are only for inmates). Not sure if he was expected to stand for the 12 hrs per day he was with me. But if he wasn't there I wouldn't have had any food or care, the nurses did nothing for me. I tried to make us feel better by saying that it was a bit like having a very weird holiday in a grim Travelodge... The only bright spot was when they decided to prescribe me Dom Perignon which sometimes brings on lactation. Sadly when the prescription turned up it was actually domperidone, an anti vomitting drug which can cause spontaneous lactation as a side effect ( even in men apparently!).

pictish · 03/09/2016 22:38

I am laughing at this too.
I hate being in hospital...it's too noisy, too bright, too hot and I feel horribly exposed. Not to mention bored silly. My mood tends to plummet rapidly and all I want is to go home.
Next time I will try to approach it with your attitude OP.

MumiTravels · 03/09/2016 22:39

You are all bonkers. I'm sorry but you are.

There's Travelodges with attached Toby Carvery. Less chance of someone jumping into bed with you at night and peeing on you. No one doing a massive shit whilst you tuck into your weetabix.

You need help Grin
(I'm kidding but seriously treat yourself to a night away if you're that pooped from your toddler)

Cherrysoup · 03/09/2016 22:39

Crumbs, that ankle! Hope that heals without issue and quickly.

I wasn't impressed at my first week in a filthy hospital, on my own, with a Sister who was frankly a massive bitch. They had no clue what to with me, so DPD'd elsewhere in the rattliest old ambulance where I was in dire fear of falling off the trolley the whole hour!

I loved the second hospital week, excellent people on the ward-I'm still in touch 3 years on! Excellent care, food etc. Rose tinted specs, as I remember being devastated when the DH was late for visiting (we live miles away, he works full time) and hating being unable to move and close my curtains. I think I miss the security and routine, the feeling of being looked after. I didn't like the 4am blood tests for the various operations and the nurse who wiggled the needle and caused my whole arm to go black!

ScouseQueen · 03/09/2016 22:42

My hospital experiences haven't been at all like this but I'm pleased others have got on better. My equivalent is going to be: book cheap hotel, take box of teabags, 4 pints of milk and some tubs of Roses with me, then just lie in bed for two days straight watching crap TV. I'm budgeting for it now. Get well not very soon OP Smile

HarryKerry · 03/09/2016 22:42

Ye gods! That X-Ray

I have found my people though. A couple of days of peace and quiet and being looked after would be lush.

Op good luck when you get home, I found a very tasteful bum bag type thing useful to keep phone/remote controls etc with you and to carry small flasks of tea back. Fun thing about crutches, you can get up, make a cup of tea but can't carry it back to where you were sitting, grrr.

Enjoy your stay in hospital, you whippersnapper you.

MrsSchadenfreude · 03/09/2016 22:42

May I recommend being in hospital in Belgium, where you are offered a choice of beer or wine with your lunch?

ScouseQueen · 03/09/2016 22:43

Mumi exactly!

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