to be annoyed at other patients in hospital talking loudly on phone after 10 pm?

[hotpotlover]

So I'm being induced at the moment and I'm in a room with two other ladies.
One of them is still talking loudly on the phone now at almost 10:30 pm and I find it super annoying and think she's extremely selfish.

AIBU?

It's very annoying. Earplugs asap

Get them in while you can and get some rest!!!!

Most people these days only give a shit about themselves.

Hospital wards are hell. I was in a week with my first, she was in NICU. Every single night there was some selfish arsehole disturbing everyone. One night a woman who had just had twins was facetiming her family at 3am. I think they took pity on me as I was moved to my own room for my last 2 nights. I literally cried with relief.

@Feetupteashot: I have earplugs, but they don't completely block out her loud voice.

I could go over and ask her politely to shut the f**ck up, but I worry that she'll make a scene and it could negatively impact my hospital experience.

Your hospital experience is already negatively impacted, hence you're posting on here.

I would try and address it with her. You're about to go into labour FGS, you have the right to some mental space for yourself!

Hell is other people.

Wax earplugs.

Loud groaning... that should sort it!

It’s everywhere- was on the train yesterday. Two seperate people having convos on speakerphone. I know all their business now 🤷‍♀️

Have a pretend phone call and complain loudly about some genital related problem. Everyone might listen in and shut up....

& be very nice to midwives in case single room available in post natal ward

There's hope, she's started to yawn a few times in the last 10 minutes 🥱 🙄

Oh my god, I had similar after my dd was born. The lady in the next bed slept through her phone ringing for about 20 minutes then when she did finally answer she was practically shouting down the phone.
One of the ladies shouted from behind her curtain to shut up thankfully.
She left the room yapping away but probably disturbed the whole ward as she did so!

I had the exact same when I was induced. Then the woman stopped talking and started playing games on her phone and all I could hear was boop boop boop brrrrrring boop boop brrrrring brrrrring boop noises, at which point the midwife asked her to silence her phone. It was about 11:30 on a ward with 5 other induced women. Selfish twat.

That was exactly my experience on the induction ward 2 years ago and I hated it. I had a lady to my left on the phone swearing and shouting at 11pm, prior to this the woman opposite had got her husband to bring in KFC (not a crime in itself) but I then had to listen to the loudest eaters alive feasting on The Colnel's bounty whilst burping throughout. The smell of this kentucky delight prompted the woman next to them (still opposite me) to begin loudly vomiting as it didn't agree with the pethidine that she'd just spent 2 hours loudly requesting non-stop. I got less than 2 hours sleep that night before going into labour. If you've got headphones and a screen OP I'd plug yourself into Netflix! Good luck with tonight and the arrival of your little one. 😊

I don’t think anyone gets much sleep in hospital, unfortunately. I hope you’re home again soon

I was in hospital last year on coronary care and the amount of people who had loud conversations on either speakerphone and in some instances even on FaceTime was unreal.

But the worst was one bloke who had been opposite me who had spent all day every day on FaceTime with God-knows-who, then on the night after I was moved down to the next ward a patient on CCU had a cardiac arrest and died. I only knew because I overheard one of the nurses mention it but it was done discretely.

Then this bloke comes wandering past talking loudly on his phone, I’m guessing he was being discharged, but he was practically shouting: “well yeah it was the bloke in the bed opposite. yeah well he died didn’t he.” awful.

Slightly more amusing though was the one when I was in the same ward nearly four years ago (I have frequent flier miles,) who had spent all day chatting up the nurses, his work colleague who came to visit, pretty much any female he engaged with. He really thought he was something. Anyway that night he was on the phone to what I can only presume was his GF, and as he said goodbye he said “don’t forget to send me your special pictures.....” .

I had exactly the same. I called a nurse and she told the woman to shut up. Nicely but she got the message.

Hopefully she's shut up now. My last experience was on a spinal ward following surgery and the woman opposite kept shouting at random intervals about how famous she was and could she have more morphine now........ if i could have got out of bed I'd have administered the morphine myself i was that damned tired!

Oh god I remember it like it was yesterday, you are not alone! I even had the same lady arguing with the babies dad for a WHOLE DAY during visiting hours. Once baby was here I was on a ward with someone who just let their baby cry all the time and left their phone on loud with multiple alarms. Was ridiculous.

This is already impacting your hospital stays call the midwife or go for a walk and ask them to pop their head in in ten minutes and tell her to shut up. They will do this for you x

when your baby is born it’s likely it will cry in the early hours of the morning and keep some people awake so it’s just give and take. it was only half ten so hardly that late

I waited until 11:30 pm and then walked over to the midwife and complained. She came to my aid immediately and told her to shut up 😁☺️

@Sugartitties: But that's different. A little baby can't help crying whenever it needs to. Adults however should know how to be considerate and not have unnecessary phone conversations that late when people are trying to rest. Btw, she continued until 11:30 pm with no signs of stopping and would have probably continued way after midnight if I hadn't gone to the midwife at that point to complain.

Argh yes. When I was on a children’s ward with my very sick son I had to deal with lots of different patients talking on their phones loudly, laughing and joking while I tried to sleep. Honestly I hated them all. Absolute cunts.

*parents