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Posting from hospital bed

37 replies

hadjawho · 14/01/2019 10:56

Ok so I've namechanged in case this person is on Mumsnet but said person had a piercing this week that got infected, and they spend 3 days in hospital having it antibiotics for infection. The experience was documented every 2-3 hours on Facebook & Instagram from a&e all the way through to discharge and then they were checking themselves into the local pub a few hours later.
Lots of boomerang videos of her iv and the rooms she's been in and gushing posts thanking everybody for checking in, and then commenting on the posts "inboxed you hun"

I want to say a massive thank you to everyone, who has helped me and shown concern over the past week.

To be told that I was literally this close 👌🏻 to being in critical danger of my life being taken from me, it opens yours eyes to a lot. I am so thankful to everyone, the people who visited me, the people who messaged me, my family for looking after me but the biggest thank you goes to ... THE NHS. I was placed in 4 different beds before given my own room because of the shortage of space. I was triaged in a corridor because there was no rooms available. Unfortunately- we can’t have what we want all the time but they did their absolute best to keep me alive and for that, I am truly grateful!

I am still on heavy medication for the next week but I’m on the mend and it’s back to work tomorrow. I’m alive 🙏🏻

Aibu to not get why grown adults do this, she's 28 years old.

OP posts:
hadjawho · 14/01/2019 10:57

Forgot to add the middle bits were copied and pasted from her Facebook

OP posts:
Schuyler · 14/01/2019 10:58

People like attention and hospital is boring.

LagunaBubbles · 14/01/2019 11:00

What's wrong with posting that? It's social media at the end if the day, just another form of communication today. If you don't like it defriend her.

Newsername · 14/01/2019 11:00

Attention seeking. Some people thrive on it!

ILoveChristmasLights · 14/01/2019 11:01

I can’t understand why people bring this kind of crap over to MN 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes it’s ridiculous, it’s one reason why many of us don’t ‘do’ Facebook. De reg or deal with it, but complaining about how others use it, is pointless.

WatcherintheRye · 14/01/2019 11:01

I'm not sure there's much to object to! She just sounds very thankful. Maybe she had been in danger of developing sepsis?

ZeroFuchsGiven · 14/01/2019 11:03

What a nasty post! Presumably your 'friend' has been unwell with an infection which hospitalised her and you come on here to slag her off? Believe me she would not have been admitted if it was not needed.

Do her a favour and unfriend her on fb you are not her friend.

Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2019 11:03

Yes, why are you dragging this over to MN?

Bombardier25966 · 14/01/2019 11:04

No less attention seeking than starting a thread on here about it!

Schuyler · 14/01/2019 11:05

Risk of sepsis isn’t sepsis and she was hardly at risk of death based on a 3 day hospital admission and able to return to work. I’m sure she was ill and she was probably scared but she’s being a drama llama.

Grimbles · 14/01/2019 11:06

It's her Facebook page so it's up to her what she posts on it.

PengAly · 14/01/2019 11:07

It is attention seeking and lets be hoenst if she was in the pub a few hours later she could hardly have been that close to death! But i dont really think you are much better starting a thread about it....

MrsDrSpencerReid · 14/01/2019 11:15

Ive just had a week long stint in hospital.

I was really ill but by day 4 I was so bored and upset I posted on Facebook to say where I was and that I was unwell but doing better, and asked people to send me funny memes to cheer me up.

I was feeling lonely, all the old folk I shared a room with had a constant stream of visitors, whereas I had insisted DH still go to work and just visit in the evenings, and the DC were staying with my parents, as DH starts work early and they were pretty upset with what was happening so my parents made sure they did lots of fun activities with them to keep their minds off it. They did come and visit a couple of times but it’s a pretty scary place for kids.

I posted again to let people know when I had been discharged.

What your friend posted OP does sound a little excessive though, I only posted twice over a week.

PositivelyPERF · 14/01/2019 11:18

My husband was let go to the pub for a few hours, medicated to the hilt, when he was in hospice. He died a week later. It invokes sitting down and drinking, i5 was hardly going to be very taxing for her.

I don’t have time for drama lamas, but I think what you have done is worse. I think you put this post on here, because you know the FB friend is on Mumsnet. Bad show, OP.

QwertyLou · 14/01/2019 11:19

And the reason for copying and pasting it all to MN is? Confused

PixieCutRegret · 14/01/2019 11:22

With friends like you who needs enemies...

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 14/01/2019 11:22

Well with friends like you OP .

ABoozedMoose · 14/01/2019 11:32

It's actually quite nice to see people defending the NHS. I'd much rather see a post like your 'friend's' than something bitching about it

FlibbertyGiblets · 14/01/2019 11:36

Blimey. Glad you're not my friend.

CreakyBlinder · 14/01/2019 11:37

Wow you really dislike this person don't you? Confused

brokenhead · 14/01/2019 11:38

Why are you being a Dick !!

paintinmyhairAgain · 14/01/2019 11:39

drama llama yes, but it does come across a bit bitchy to snipe on here tbh. people write plenty of crap on fb but then there are plenty of people wasting their time reading it then passing it on, so no, you were never going to get the response you possibly hoped for. i would now flounce and asked for this to be deleted as it's far too outing.

Mousewithascarf · 14/01/2019 11:41

FB seems to bring out the cringiest side of some people. I’ve just de-regged and my profile will be deleted by the end of the month. I’m done with the virtue signalling, the round the clock pics of someone’s cats, every outing and incident. I’ve unfollowed so many people i was left with about 5. Such nonsense.

paintinmyhairAgain · 14/01/2019 11:46

i'm a fb virgin Grin the more i hear about it i'll stay that way !

Mookatron · 14/01/2019 11:48

People like attention and hospital is boring.

This. Can't get het up about it.

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