"Hospitals ain't for sleeping"

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So one of the staff told me when I was awakened about 2:00 a.m. for some "vital signs" proceedures.

One morning just after breakfast one cqame in to check my oxygen intake. A second came in to check my blood pressure and temperature. Then a third entered, carrying what appeared to be a rod about one inch in diameter, and maybe a foot long. I had not seen such a device before.

"WHAT'S THAT?" I demanded rather rudely.

"A mop," was her surprised reply.

Well, you see, lying in bed as I was, I failed to see the whole thing.

Bob Wright
 
Last hospital stay was for open heart surgery. Darned fools wouldn't let me leave until I pooped. I kept telling them that's not where they did the surgery. I can't image what they wanted Bob to do before they let him out.
 
"Darned fools wouldn't let me leave until I pooped."
NO :poop:!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know a guy who ended up staying in the hospital four days after hip replacement (normally an overnight after the surgery) because he couldn't meet that criteria.
When I had my hip replaced, Son dropped me off at Kansas City on his way to Texas and Daughter picked me up the next day. We knew what to expect so she brought some Ex-Lax to make sure I got to leave.;)
 
Bob Wright said:
So one of the staff told me when I was awakened about 2:00 a.m. for some "vital signs" proceedures.

One morning just after breakfast one cqame in to check my oxygen intake. A second came in to check my blood pressure and temperature. Then a third entered, carrying what appeared to be a rod about one inch in diameter, and maybe a foot long. I had not seen such a device before.

"WHAT'S THAT?" I demanded rather rudely.

"A mop," was her surprised reply.

Well, you see, lying in bed as I was, I failed to see the whole thing.

Bob Wright
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Bwahahaha thank Goodness 😂😂😂 Great to see you post @Bob Wright I for one look up to you and love to read your stories.
 
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Bob, great to see you posting again and regaining your strength.

When I had my back surgery (removed broken pieces of L4 and then fused L4 and L5), they (the nurses) kept asking if I had a bowel movement yet. I told one that I had hurt so bad before the surgery that I hadn't easten in 3 days prior to being taken to the ER and hadn't eaten since the surgery because I just wan't hungry so it was about 5 days with nothing but what was being pumped into my arm. I also told them it was a nightmare just trying to get out of bed to whiz with everything that was attached to me. She said "Oh you should have said something" She then showed me how to unhook myself so I could get to the bathroom easier. She did say that as soon as I unhooked myself, that an alarm would go off and a nurse would come to see what was going on (they did). She made a note on my chart and after that they never asked if I had a movement and I was discharged the next day.
 
Just got out of the hospital after 10 days there. My fingers look like a pin cushion after all the pricks to check my sugar. My sugar was checked about 2 hours after I ate so it was a little high. If over 180 here came the nurse with a shot. Not much rest but a lot of TV.
 
I have been in the hospital, and they wake you up at night to give you a sleeping pill.
Many years ago (early 2000s) I was put in the hospital cellulitis that had crept up over my knee from my foot. I had a friend who worked there and they whispers, don't let nurse (Name withheld) NW for now touch you, shell kill you. She doesn't wash between patients, Late on night the IV blew out. I pressed the button and, in the shadows, comes a nurse. In a patch of light, I see the name tag. NW. .
 
Glad to see you back, Mr. Wright. 👍

The only time I can sleep in the hospital is when the anesthesiologist puts me out…like this two weeks ago for my ablation procedure:
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Had my hernia surgery last week - on the 18th. Day surgery - in-n-out. Easy-peasey. Well, almost. Because they made me pee before they'd discharge me. Wow! Catheterization had caused blood clots to form in my urinary tract. Eliminating that first clot was painful - "stars and lightning bolts in my eyes" painful. [I never want to know what passing kidney stones feels like.]

Next morning at home came my first bowel movement. Excruciatingly painful...and made me pass blood.

Years ago, I had a 360-degree spinal fusion surgery (L3-4-5) that left scar tissue inside my abdomen. A couple of years later my intestines "hung up" on that scar tissue, creating symptoms like a major heart attack. Incredibly painful. The pain hit while I was driving home from Oklahoma. I pulled off the highway, curled up in a ball on the floorboard and thought I was dying. When the pain subsided a bit, I drove to Baylor-Plano's heart hospital where, after running lots of "negative results" tests, they theorized the scar tissue as the likely source of my pain. So the doctor ordered me to jump up and down a few times. I did and magically, the kink unkinked. I felt like a million bucks.

My post-hernia operation bowel movement replicated, on a lesser scale, the scar tissue-induced pain.
 
Last time I was in hospital they replaced my heart valve. They made me do an overnight stay for observation. Never got a wink of sleep. Seems the night nurse and an orderly were living together and they had a big fight while at work. I don't think anyone on that floor got any sleep. The killer? I got the bill for the o/night stay. $185,000.00. I felt sorry for that nurse because that orderly was one sorry POS. Then again, I would have thought that nurse would have had better sense.
FWIW, the insurance paid the doc for his part in the procedure. No problem there. That's also the last time I'll use that hospital although in this case the doc had no choice. He has hospital privlidges. That hospital has Blue Cross seem to have a love/hate relationship. Me?I just hate them period.
Paul B.
 
black1970 said:
Just got out of the hospital after 10 days there. My fingers look like a pin cushion after all the pricks to check my sugar. My sugar was checked about 2 hours after I ate so it was a little high. If over 180 here came the nurse with a shot. Not much rest but a lot of TV.
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Get a continuous glucose monitor. Doesn't do completely away with them. But, my A1C is in much better control.
 
You learn that tidbit during a sleep study.

Wrapped me in tape and about 40’ of bell wire. “Good night sir” 90 minutes later I was informed I needed to have my face covered with a mask attached to a cheap garden hose. 60 minutes later they acknowledged that I wasn’t sleeping or breathing. Here is another slightly less intrusive mask try it you’ll love it! I didn’t.

Sleep deprivation study is a more apt description.
 
they've improved. Mine was done at home with nothing but one monitor hooked to me for two nights... of course you can guess what the results were.....
the funny part is I put off for over a year getting the cpap machine and at some point in time my neighbor Dr. Lee asked if I had gotten it and I confessed to putting it off and she told me I really needed to get it. I then asked her what was the worse that could happen if I did not get on the machine and her answer was, "you could die in your sleep!" My answer was, that's not the worse thing that can happen to me and actually is probably in the long run a good way to die.... I still got the machine... have had it for a year or more... I'm not impressed.
 
blume357 said:
they've improved. Mine was done at home with nothing but one monitor hooked to me for two nights... of course you can guess what the results were.....
the funny part is I put off for over a year getting the cpap machine and at some point in time my neighbor Dr. Lee asked if I had gotten it and I confessed to putting it off and she told me I really needed to get it. I then asked her what was the worse that could happen if I did not get on the machine and her answer was, "you could die in your sleep!" My answer was, that's not the worse thing that can happen to me and actually is probably in the long run a good way to die.... I still got the machine... have had it for a year or more... I'm not impressed.
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I bet your neighbor knew you needed it because your snoring was keeping her awake!

I envy you and your sleeping porch, but I bet the whole neighborhood is glad you got a CPAP! 😂
 
Having to pee and crap before a hospital discharge is normal. They just want to be sure that your body is returning to normal after the anesthesia and all the other drugs or IV fluids were pumped into you. I've been hospitalized more times than I wish were the case, mostly for serious issues, but only once was I unable to have a BM so they kept me a few extra days while they tried laxatives, suppositories and some other stuff. But finally it worked and I was discharged. If you are really blocked up, it is better to be in a hospital with an IV line hooked up than to be at home with nothing but ExLax to relieve the problem. And FWIW, I've never had a problem sleeping while hospitalized, which I guess is lucky for me.
 
Never had to wait for a bowel movement, but they always wanted to see if I could pee. Had to have a tooth cut out and because I am allergic to all the caine deadeners they put me out. They released me without waiting to see if I could pee. Never thought anything about it until about 10:30 PM when the urge hit and could not get anything to happen. Tried everything with no results. Finally, around 4:00 AM went to the emergency room. They called the doctor, the SOB took 1 and 1/2 hours to show up and then had the nurse insert the catheter and pull it back out after had drained everything off. Almost smacked the idiot. But that is the reason they want to see if everything is going to function.
 
The last time I was in the hospital for an overnight stay, my room was close to the nurse's station. Damn, they are noisy. So I got up and closed the door to my room and went back to sleep. I wake up and the door is propped open. Close it. They open it. I have no idea why they wanted my door open.
 
Paul B said:
I got the bill for the o/night stay. $185,000.00.
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Was that including the surgery?

The last time that I had an overnight stay, I think it was $5k which seemed extreme to me. A hotel room is about $200 a night and I could pay a nurse to sit with me for $500.

Unrelated: A while back, I was admitted to the hospital and in the morning I was taken for a stress test. I was wheeled to what was really a storage room and sat there in my wheel chair with a few other patients all waiting for tests. A year later, I went back for another stress test but as an outpatient. The waiting area had comfy chairs, a working TV, magazines, and a Keurig. Walking down the hall, I saw the folks in their wheelchairs sitting in the storage room. Bastiges.
 
"Was that including the surgery?"

No, that was separate and the inssurnce paid that off right away. I have no idea why that charge and they're not giving me any answers.
Paul B.
 
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