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Date Posted: 17:37:49 09/22/13 Sun
In reply to:
Wexwiz543
's message, "Re: Hospital blues" on 10:22:26 09/21/13 Sat
O yeah hospital blues and i go back 11 years now and i am only 32 now, so i know how you feel Wes. But i still think we have it good after all, We where older then 10 before we got to know HB. I really feel for those kids that get to know him
>The hospital I was in could weigh you in bed. The
>scales were built into the bed. Made for a more
>restful night except for other vitals that had to be
>looked after.
>
>Wex
>
>>I had a bout in the hospital earlier this week. I
>>don’t think it's appropriate to get into the gory
>>details, but suffice to say there's a good reason why
>>I don't care to have much to do with hospitals.
>>Fortunately, I've been able to avoid it happening very
>>often but I fear that as I grow older I may not be
>>able to avoid it as much as I have in the past.
>>
>>One of my favorite expressions is "it doesn't have to
>>make sense." I find that especially true about
>>hospitals. They are, and probably correctly, slaves to
>>procedure and all the paperwork being in the proper
>>place. Whether any common sense is involved can be
>>hard to discern from the patient viewpoint.
>>
>>For example, I found it hard to turn over in a
>>hospital bed. It's not easy at home, either, and
>>sometimes it's easier to just get up and turn around
>>than it is to thrash around and wake up my wife.
>>Honestly, I do it without waking up very much. So, one
>>morning, I was in the process of turning over when I
>>was shaken awake by a passing nurse's aide. "Are you
>>all right?" she asked.
>>
>>I told her I was fine. "Great," she said. "Now that
>>you're awake, can I get your weight?"
>>
>>Two-thirty in the morning and she was wandering the
>>halls looking for someone to weigh! It turns out that
>>it's hospital protocol to weigh people between two and
>>six in the morning. So much for sleeping in. For that
>>matter, so much for sleeping, period. I never did get
>>back to sleep that night.
>>
>>Ah, weight. Hospitals, weight and me have a long but
>>convoluted history. During my previous hospital stay,
>>four years ago, I lost twenty-five pounds in a week.
>>That was the bad news -- the good news was that I
>>managed to keep it off.
>>
>>I didn't do that well this time. One day, in which I
>>had eaten very little between weighing, I managed to
>>gain three pounds, which had to be from the way they
>>were pushing the IV fluids at me. I have over the
>>years heard women griping about water weight. I know
>>what they're talking about now!
>>
>>Hospital food is certainly an excuse for losing
>>weight. Now, it's no big secret that I'm diabetic and
>>have been for many years. The problem is that as soon
>>as you show up in a hospital and the word "diabetic"
>>gets involved they automatically put you on a
>>no-sugar, no-salt, no-flavor, no-fat, no-calorie,
>>no-cholesterol, no-taste diet. For example, one
>>morning I had "French toast" on the menu. What I got
>>was two slices of bread, with no evidence of egg, or
>>no evidence of toasting, either.
>>
>>One noon the menu said "homemade macaroni and cheese."
>>To be honest, I would give it about a two on a scale
>>of one to ten. Now, that's actually better than it
>>sounds since I wouldn't give any macaroni and cheese
>>more than about a four.
>>
>>To be honest, I was served a couple of meals I would
>>have to say were pretty decent. One, for instance, was
>>Swedish meatballs, which would have tasted pretty good
>>had there been even a little bit of salt available.
>>Mental note: the next time I have to go into a
>>hospital, smuggle in a salt shaker.
>>
>>Since this stay in the hospital was totally unplanned,
>>there were other things I would have liked to have
>>with me, but didn’t. I was lost without a computer
>>available, which was especially irritating considering
>>how computerized hospitals have become. The only thing
>>that saved my sanity was that I managed to remember to
>>ask Amanda to charge up my Kindle e-book reader and
>>send it in, and thank goodness there were a couple
>>books on it that I had been meaning to getting around
>>to reading, but hadn't. The alternative would have
>>been daytime TV, and I don't think I need to say any
>>more about that.
>>
>>However, despite everything, I mostly had a good bunch
>>of nurses and other staff members. They seemed
>>dedicated and professional, and were mostly people I
>>would like to have met under somewhat different
>>circumstances.
>>
>>Sooner or later I will probably have to be in a
>>hospital again. I hope I learned something from this
>>time.
>>
>>-- Wes
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