She has Risen

[digitS']

I even felt compelled to stay, overnight.

Hadn't planned to, didn't have far to drive, nurse came wheeling in a rollaway bed ...

It certainly wasn't the only night I spent in a hospital, even tho I have never once been the in-patient (knocking on wood). Often, I have dozed on and off in waiting rooms but that might occur at any hour ... oh, I had knowledge of multiple waiting rooms ... and their reading material ...

I think that it can make the nurses jobs easier for a spouse or parent to hang around. Don't know but bed checks might not need be as frequent. Patients might be more comfortable. It must vary by hospital and individuals.

Steve

 

[so lucky]

That is just so wrong? Where are the parents?

Mary

The parents are in the room visiting with their loved one, which quickly bores the kids, so they go out to the lounge areas at the end of the halls.

 

[so lucky]

I have mixed feelings about family (spouse) staying with the patient at the hospital.
When my FIL was hospitalized near death with pneumonia, my BIL insisted someone be with him 24/7. I don't really know if we helped any.

But I have wondered what happens when I leave, (my own parents). Does the nurse never come in? Do the calls go unanswered? If they need to be fed, who does that? Sick weak patients can't get the flatware package open, can't get the juice bottle open. Do patients with no family just starve while hospitalized?
As a rule, I found that nursing staff just assume family will take care of their patient.

 

[so lucky]

Oh yes, I remember staff having to stay with Pop 24/7, too, because he had been suicidal. A different time.
And then my dad, being absolutely out of his head. I remember in the emergency room, he slugged a male nurse who was trying to do something for him. Fortunately these memories have faded some. I think most of dementia was a reaction to the pain medicine he was given. Ack! I don't want to remember that.

 

[seedcorn]

When my Mom was in hospital, I learned I Had to be there every nurse shift change. Got call at 5:30 AM that she was be hard to deal with. I asked, did she get her pain Meds? No. Got up, drove 30 minutes to hospital, then was told nurse would get to her when she had time. So I followed her everywhere she went. All of a sudden-after 3 patients-she had time to give my mom hers. Later they came in and told her that she was so much more pleasant. I looked right at her and said, that's how people are when they aren't in intense pain after major surgery.

What ever moron thought of the med pump is an idiot! When you sleep, you don't pump it. Intense pain wakes you up and the pump can't deal with intense pain....

 

[catjac1975]

Bobm, I never drove up that "hill", but I walked up and down it several times. That was the first time I realized just why roads up mountains curve back and forth on themselves. Going straight would have been impossible.

Probably only 1 to 1 1/2 miles as the crow flies, but about 5 miles walking along the road. Hey, I used to be in great shape!

When my husband had his first knee replacement done in Boston it was the day of a 30 year record blizzard. The hospital is at the top of a giant hill, narrow street lined with parked cars, and Boston drivers that do not slow down for any weather.. Yikes! One good thing is that the city is unbelievable at clearing out snow. Looked like no snow had fallen by the end of the 2nd day. They load it into dump trucks and bring it to snow dumps!

 

[baymule]

Snow dumps.... .......Nawthurner Landfill.....

 

[bobm]

Another update ... the Doctors did a thorough exam on my wife this morning and she passed with flying colors. So, at 2: 10 pm , 4 footmen dressed in all blue garb arrived and carried her to a cheriot to make a scienic drive accross Portland, Ore. to her new digs at Kaizer Hospital. She is still in the critical care unit and has been examined by her new Doctors again with flying colors. The Nurse to patient ratio is 1 nurse per 2 patients with the nurse's desk being between the 2 rooms with a window directly to each room. So a nurse is intantly available and doctors have a pager system and arrive within a minute or two at most. She finaly became quite sleepy by 6:20 , so I let her go to sleep and I arrived home in less than an hour as her new digs are much closer to home and all freeway driving. That is, IF NOT during the morning and evening mass migration times. Off to bed for nighty night time.

 

[Nyboy]

Great news BoB.

 

[Carol Dee]

Great news for sure.