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AIBU?

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To enjoy being in hospital?

122 replies

onefortheroadplease · 08/10/2017 22:23

Am I really weird to enjoy being in hospital?

I have recently had an overnight stay for a minor operation, and the whole build up to the operation, plus the stay and recovery afterwards, I have really enjoyed Confused

I love having an atheistic, love the wooziness afterwards, plus the lovely sleep drifting in and out of consciousness.

I love having cups of tea brought to me, and being able to legitimately have a nice rest.

Obviously it goes without saying that if I was in hospital for something serious it would be horrific and scary, and I would find it terrifying and want to be anywhere but hospital.

So AIBU to feel this way?

OP posts:
Mrscaindingle · 08/10/2017 22:52

gynae op not gynaecologist

BestZebbie · 08/10/2017 22:54

I like the way you end up feeling much healthier than when you went in, the most. :-)

VioletCharlotte · 08/10/2017 22:56

I don't like it at all. I always worry about infection and picking up something really nasty. I hate the fact it's so hot and the noise at night that stops you sleeping properly.

Luckily I'm fortunate in that I've only had a couple of overnight stays.

Neverknowing · 08/10/2017 22:57

I agree! After having my DD (cesarean) I was in for five days with complications and as much as I wanted to get home, I also loved it. My DP had everything clean and tidy when I got home and looked after me for six weeks afterwards. Was bliss. I didn't lift a finger!
Also I had a beautiful baby. Everything was (and still is tbh) amazing !

TatianaLarina · 08/10/2017 22:57

If it’s a private hospital you’re NBU, but I was admitted as emergency to nhs hospital via a and e earlier this year and it was grim.

The most uncomfortable bed, noisy ward, hardly slept, grim microwave school food, my DH had to bring pillows and meals and a blanket as I was freezing. No China tea let alone peppermint, just PG Tips. The shower didn’t work and flooded through the door.

Couldn’t wait to get out.

Ellendegeneres · 08/10/2017 22:59

After dc1, we were admitted a week due to him being poorly. Bloody shock leaving and having to wash the clothes and clear up after myself, wanted to go back and demand longer- I wasn't ready, needed more support. Dc2, they kept us one night and turfed us out in case I decided I was staying like before. Food had gone downhill by then, but I was ordering takeout to the hospital so I would have stayed if they'd let me keep that up...

iwasyoungonce · 08/10/2017 22:59

I had a minor op in the Summer and loved my stay in hospital. I'd looked forward to it for months too! Could happily have stayed for a week. YANBU.

GreenTulips · 08/10/2017 22:59

I was in a few years ago, had a lovely bay window over looking the trees and the sun streamed through keeping me warm. Felt like a holiday.

Redglitter · 08/10/2017 23:00

YABU I was in hospital for a few weeks recently and if you don't have your own room it's a nightmare. People coming and going all the time. Horrible toilet and shower facilities & having to put up with the other patients in the ward was awful and don't start me on the food. The tea was vile and there was no toast

The 2 days I spent in my own room were the only 2 bareable ones. I actually cried when they kept putting back my discharge date

MomToWedThorFriday · 08/10/2017 23:00

And the toilets are grim.

Ah, but, I had a catheter. I literally didn’t even have to move to pee. Morphine and lack of appetite meant I didn’t poo for what felt like the entire time I was there (I’m sure I did though, or they’d have noticed). It was glorious.

Xmasbaby11 · 08/10/2017 23:01

I enjoyed it too. 3 days for a minor op. So restful and the nurses were so kind. I just did loads of reading and enjoyed lack of responsibility. I don't mind noise so slept fine! Just 4 in a ward and no kids allowed to visit, so not much noise tbh.

elephantoverthehill · 08/10/2017 23:02

It's the sheets.

gettingbacktoresearch · 08/10/2017 23:05

I often have this fantasy and felt disappointed that I didn't have an overnight stay in May when I was in under a GA for a voice box op.... they sent me home at 9:30pm! Still, had a lovely couple of days in bed at home with lots of ice cream :)

NewBrian · 08/10/2017 23:06

I hated the busy maternity ward, the food, someone popping in constantly, the noise, lack of sleep. I had 2 days on a gynea ward when DS was a toddler that was a lovely rest though, so yanbu!

Gudgyx · 08/10/2017 23:07

I did 2 weeks in a critical care ward once - right out my box on fentanyl, catheter in, I’d just got my ileostomy bag so no need to poo, bed baths with the wipes they put in the microwave, even got my hair washed! They don’t half look after you in those wards, probably due to there only being 2 patients to each nurse as it was high dependency.

The following 2 weeks in a general ward were brutal though, even with a private room.

Mrscaindingle · 08/10/2017 23:07

I guess it really depends on the hospital, when I went 2 years ago it was a brand new hospital and the staff were lovely. TBF when I stayed overnight in London having DS1 17 years ago it was pretty grim, Nightingale wards with beds crammed in next to each other and the nurses run off their feet.

GreatFuckability · 08/10/2017 23:08

Maternity wards are the exception. Those places are The Depths of Hell. Quite literally, they are so hot.

cresit · 08/10/2017 23:09

My friend had a life threatening illness, the op went wrong, and was repeated two days later. She actually enjoyed it all, she loved meeting new people and being the centre of attention for a change. She used to ring me up each day to tell me all the gossip.

She didn't want to leave.

HazelBite · 08/10/2017 23:09

I went into a private local hospital (paid for by the NHS) to have knee replacement surgery. There weren't any "ill" people as such there, and i had a lovely room with my own bathroom and wonderful meals and the nurses were lovely.
I was quite sorry to go home as I had morphine in hospital, which was great but had to make do with ordinary pain killers when home.

ShoesHaveSouls · 08/10/2017 23:10

Agree maternity wards are hell on earth. Some wards are awful.

Antenatal wards on the other hand - lovely, I was treated very well. I almost begged them for another night.

MrsSchadenfreude · 08/10/2017 23:10

Can I recommend Belgian hospitals? Two beds to a room, excellent food and wine or beer with your lunch.

Redglitter · 08/10/2017 23:12

I was quite sorry to go home as I had morphine in hospital, which was great

Oh that was a definite bonus press that button every 2 hours and it was delivered to my bedside

TatianaLarina · 08/10/2017 23:14

Yeah morphine rocks, I can’t argue with that.

Crumbs1 · 08/10/2017 23:14

No horrible being in hospital- even in a single room. No real control over your day, no real privacy, noisy, no ability to control temperature etc. Bays are the worst possible experience having people wanting to make conversation or being nosey. Then old ladies seeing on the floor or using a commode the other side of a curtain.
Just grim. Even the best hospitals are not where one would choose to be.

ZeroTo10k · 08/10/2017 23:16

Back when I was a teacher I remember wishing more than once that I could have some kind of illness or accident that wasn't really serious but would warrant a few days in hospital.