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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?

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ZeroTo10k · 08/10/2017 23:16

I realise it is terrible thinking that!

TatianaLarina · 08/10/2017 23:18

Why not just book a few days in a hotel.? Grin Better food, better beds and no sick people...

elephantoverthehill · 08/10/2017 23:18

I cannot understand for the life of me why anyone would take Morphine as a 'fun' drug. It was horrible in hospital.

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GreatFuckability · 08/10/2017 23:20

elephant I love it! that floaty far away feeling....delicious.

Forgettheworld · 08/10/2017 23:20

I'm a nurse and we have lots of patients who say they've enjoyed it and wanted to stay longer. I always say It's like a 5 star hotel our ward

sparkli · 08/10/2017 23:24

YANBU. I spent 2 months in hospital a few years ago, in a private room in cardiac care and in HDU. I suspect having a high nurse to patient ratio helps, but I had lots of tea and coffee and the best possible care. Despite coming close to death several times (I wasn't aware I was so ill), I enjoyed the enforced rest from being a SAHM of 6!

Maelstrop · 08/10/2017 23:26

I felt very safe and didn't want to go home, despite the annoyance of being woken up by noisy fellow patients, being unable to walk etc. I loved the anaesthetics, had several over a week but got annoyed at being woken from a lovely sleep! It's wrecked my sleeping patterns, even years later. :(

steff13 · 08/10/2017 23:28

You're not being unreasonable. There's that part of Bad Moms where Kristin Bell talks about wanting to go to the hospital so she can watch whatever she wants on TV, and eat Jell-O, and the nurses would rub cream in her feet.

steff13 · 08/10/2017 23:28

On

elephantoverthehill · 08/10/2017 23:29

Great I just felt like I was going to be sick and I hated the hallucinations. Weed just makes me go to sleep. I'm not a very good druggy Smile

Floralnomad · 08/10/2017 23:42

I've not read the whole thread but you must have really sad lives to enjoy being in any hospital . I was in hospital for a week at the end of September , private room , private facilities even when I had started to feel slightly better I found it hellish . Can't fault the care but frankly I can't see how it is 'enjoyable' .

mirime · 08/10/2017 23:45

I had an op a year ago. Only in overnight, could have been out the same day but they kept me in as DS was three at the time.

I didn't enjoy the hospital bit so much but everyone keeping DS or of my bedroom at night plus the codeine (at first, then it started giving me horrendous nightmares so stored taking it as soon as I could) meant I got a decent amount of sleep for a good month. Sadly it's the most rested I've felt for over a decade.

TinselTwins · 08/10/2017 23:56

Oh maternity wards are hell, but having a regular op is LOVELY!
Starchy sheets, catheter, morphine and the loveliest sleeps!
A hotel that offered catheterization, repositioning & 3 day clean drug induced sleeps would be booked up years in advance!

Ollivander84 · 08/10/2017 23:59

I liked it. Private room, plenty of food, two cups of tea at a time. I was miffed when I had to go home and cook for myself!

oldlaundbooth · 09/10/2017 00:05

I totally get this.

Having all the meals cooked and brought to me was great whilst I was in with DD and DS. Even though I was knackered and recovering from a cesarean....

Horsemad · 09/10/2017 00:06

I'm having an operation soon - as a (hopefully) day case. I can't say I'm looking forward to my hospital visit, tbh.

oldlaundbooth · 09/10/2017 00:06

I had a private room too... Can imagine it's different if you're on a six bed mixed sex ward..

Dinosauratemydaffodils · 09/10/2017 00:26

All my hospital stays (as a child with seizures and as an adult having a baby) have been horrendous. Patronising staff who don't listen, in fact I'd say I was treated the same as a 4 year old as I was a 37 year old. Lousy food which you wouldn't feed to a cockroach. Other people screaming. I can just about manage hospital visits, anything more than that would require brute force or a hell of a lot of drugs.

RiseToday · 09/10/2017 00:27

I'm a very stressed SAHM to an evil toddler....

I think a little spill down the stairs may be in order for me?! I'd love a couple of weeks in hospital right now Grin

Redglitter · 09/10/2017 00:35

I think a little spill down the stairs may be in order for me?! I'd love a couple of weeks in hospital right now

Trust me you really wouldn't.

BitOfFun · 09/10/2017 00:41

I spent four weeks on a ward last year, and it was fucking bliss. Like a spa. I even enjoyed the food. I made friends, the staff were so caring and fantastic, it was real respite from the stress which had contributed to my illness...I thoroughly enjoyed it, and got thoroughly instutionalised Grin. I reckon I'd do well in prison.

silverbell64 · 09/10/2017 00:46

I had a nose job a few years back. Had a very young son that I had sole care of. Went in, had the op then probably had a bit of morphine.

Had the best fluffy cheese sandwiches I'd ever had, watched the best tv I'd ever watched.

Bliss!

user1andonly · 09/10/2017 01:16

Depends on who you get put in with, I think.

I had four days in after DS2 and loved it. Manic toddler DS1 safely parked with Granny, me cuddling my newborn and being waited on. Lovely! I really, really missed it when I went home.

Operation a few years ago. Young girl opposite crying loudly all night. Lady next to me asking for a commode every time the meal trolley appeared. Very, very elderly lady diagonally opposite, didn't hear a peep from her but had to keep all the windows closed so she didn't get cold and it was like a sauna. None of it was anyone's fault and I sympathised but was so, so glad to get home to my quiet, non-smelly, reasonable temperature home!

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onefortheroadplease · 09/10/2017 06:22

like a spa Grin

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