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Lechacal, my daughter LOVES watching 16 and Pregnant. We don’t have cable so she watches it on the computer. After every episode she talks to me about how stupid these girls are to think they can take care of a baby.
When I worked at Montefiore, we had an elderly lady who became so psychotic and violent after surgery she had to be tied to the bed and put under 24 hour watch. They made the staff take turns and for some reason she liked me, so I got more than my fair share of turns, but they made me stay 10 feet from her bed at all times. She was terrifying.
On the neighboring ward an elderly Hasidic man became disoriented after his heart surgery and he was in the hospital for 6 months before he suddenly got well. I had to grab his wheelchair once as he raced towards the open staircase yelling “Wheeeee!!”
Bxgrl, sorry I didn’t mention that of course it depends on the surgery. I have no doubt that there are many, many patients who take a long time to recover. For what it’s worth, my brother has a truly impressive scar, a gigantic upside-down Y starting at the top of his chest and ending at his belly-button. It looked like a thousand staples. I am sure that the prednisone he was given to prevent rejection helped him heal quicker–the incision didn’t even itch.
My stepmother’s son is an anesthesiologist. I had an ovarian cyst removed in the 1989 and I was in the hospital for a week. 7 years later I had nasal polyps removed and I went home the same day. When I asked him about why hospital stays seemed so much shorter, he said a lot of it was because of improvements in anesthesia.
Dona….wouldn’t it have been easier to cut the toe off???? Sometimes you just have to let go of body parts that seem useless. Rob’s got one that probably hasn’t been used in a decade. 🙂
I had a delightful stay in a London Hospital for pretty bad foot injury during a biz trip. (NOT) Long story short, I had an accident which resulted in a crushed toe which required 2 surgeries and a week in the hospital. It was a WARD. (oh god). An orthopedic ward.
My wardmates were OLD LADIES. 10 of them. Most of them had broken hips and had had surgeries for that. Most of them were heavily medicated and many of them were totally bonkers at night. I whispered to a Doctor (psss…I think that woman to my left is psychotic or has dementia and needs some other help – the woman had no idea where she was) and the doctor told me that she was reacting to the medication and disorientation at night.
It was like a scene out of one flew over the cukoos nest.
Lechacal, my daughter LOVES watching 16 and Pregnant. We don’t have cable so she watches it on the computer. After every episode she talks to me about how stupid these girls are to think they can take care of a baby.
When I worked at Montefiore, we had an elderly lady who became so psychotic and violent after surgery she had to be tied to the bed and put under 24 hour watch. They made the staff take turns and for some reason she liked me, so I got more than my fair share of turns, but they made me stay 10 feet from her bed at all times. She was terrifying.
On the neighboring ward an elderly Hasidic man became disoriented after his heart surgery and he was in the hospital for 6 months before he suddenly got well. I had to grab his wheelchair once as he raced towards the open staircase yelling “Wheeeee!!”
Bxgrl, sorry I didn’t mention that of course it depends on the surgery. I have no doubt that there are many, many patients who take a long time to recover. For what it’s worth, my brother has a truly impressive scar, a gigantic upside-down Y starting at the top of his chest and ending at his belly-button. It looked like a thousand staples. I am sure that the prednisone he was given to prevent rejection helped him heal quicker–the incision didn’t even itch.
My stepmother’s son is an anesthesiologist. I had an ovarian cyst removed in the 1989 and I was in the hospital for a week. 7 years later I had nasal polyps removed and I went home the same day. When I asked him about why hospital stays seemed so much shorter, he said a lot of it was because of improvements in anesthesia.
“By denton on January 27, 2011 11:27 AM
‘go hard in da paint’ also refers to banging your gf while she’s having her period. love it…”
LMAO – Denton rules
Dona….wouldn’t it have been easier to cut the toe off???? Sometimes you just have to let go of body parts that seem useless. Rob’s got one that probably hasn’t been used in a decade. 🙂
M4L, my car is safely buried mid block.
“It was like a scene out of one flew over the cukoos nest.”
You sure you weren’t in the OT???
Legion- you’re letting him? You evil person 😉
I had a delightful stay in a London Hospital for pretty bad foot injury during a biz trip. (NOT) Long story short, I had an accident which resulted in a crushed toe which required 2 surgeries and a week in the hospital. It was a WARD. (oh god). An orthopedic ward.
My wardmates were OLD LADIES. 10 of them. Most of them had broken hips and had had surgeries for that. Most of them were heavily medicated and many of them were totally bonkers at night. I whispered to a Doctor (psss…I think that woman to my left is psychotic or has dementia and needs some other help – the woman had no idea where she was) and the doctor told me that she was reacting to the medication and disorientation at night.
It was like a scene out of one flew over the cukoos nest.