Posting from hospital bed

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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.

I don't get all the angst you see here on MN about FB actually. Like MN, it's not compulsory. But threads about it pop up regularly kind of "look at me I'm so much better than you because I don't use FB and you do" type of thing. Maybe that's what the OP wanted.

she was hardly at risk of death based on a 3 day hospital admission

Not sure about this. When I had my appendix removed I was admitted in the middle of the night and discharged mid morning the next day. They don’t want you hanging about and taking up a bed for a minute more than is necessary. So I think 3 days suggests it possibly was quite serious.

Sepsis can kill, and very quickly. I think most of us would find it quite serious and scary.

As for posting it on FB - I agree it’s attention seeking and boring, but so is 90% of Facebook content. I wouldn’t find this any more tedious and irritating than peoples pictures of their meals, or their kids first days at school, or posts trying to win competitions, or ‘adorable’ things their children have said, or rants about late busses. It’s the nature of the beast! Hence why I don’t use Facebook and save myself all this tedium

Why don’t I understand this post? A friend posted on FB about her illnesses.

You are posting in Mumsnet about the same illness or something else?

I’m confused. So very confused.

When I was on IV antibiotics in hospital for three days, they told me that I should have come in earlier, that I was going into sepsis and if I'd left it longer it could have been life threatening. It was quite serious and A&E took it very seriously. Lots of immediate tests/chest x-ray, IV ABs in A&E, not allowed to be left alone, etc. I didn't need to go into to intensive care, so I guess I wasn't completely at death's door, but it certainly felt (to someone who isn't a frequent flier with their own health) that it was critical and time sensitive. It sounds like she appreciated the treatment she had and was thankful.

Some people seem to thrive on the drama of being ill. I agree op it's very weird.

You're just as bad as what you're moaning about - attention seeking. At least she posted her own information didn't copy and paste it. Nice as you know she's on here.

I work in the NHS - it's nice to hear of someone's positive experience of their in-patient stay.

Some people live through Facebook, some don’t. No need to be so scornful! I personally don’t like how much or themselves people post on fb it’s their business to do so if they want to. I certainly wouldn’t waste 10 minutes of my life writing a scornful post on mumsney about it.

Just ignore it and move on, I kind of understand having been in hospital for 2 months with sepsis myself but didn't feel the need to post on fb, but as pp have said its her fb page so she can post and attention seek as she likes. I will say I can never understand the folks who supposedly post from an emergency ambulance with blue lights flashing though.

I’m more interested in your user name

Hospital bed selfies are the worst, pure cringe.

Even Piers Morgan did one. So embarrassing.

'Hospital bed selfies are the worst, pure cringe.'

Yes or when they post close ups of IV fluids or cannulae for administering said fluids. Lily Allen did that with a dramatic gaze at the camera.

Great that people have a positive NHS experience. I do think the op's friends overegged a very straightforward infection though.