The old ticker threw a bit of a wobbly and I found myself complete with muddy trousers and very dirty fingernails in hospital. At least I had the presence of mind to grab a spare pair of shoes from the car on the way.
I am just not cut out for being processed. Apart from a handful of staff who seem to do four times the amount of work of everyone else and seem bright and cheerful, the rest seem to be on a go slow and very miserable. And when I mean slow I mean snails pace. What is the matter with the management that the staff have become so demoralised?
There is something about me which makes everyone immediatately assume that I am their personal counsellor and everyone tells me all their problems.
After only a very minimal amount of sleep lst night I had had enough.
There was a lady with signs of dementia. But she still had a great deal of her faculties still intact. She was continually told to sit but never taken out on a walkies. Lets hope she comes back as a dog next time she will have a better time of it.
There is the RSPCA (animals) and the NSPCC (children) but is there an organisation for looking after the interests of dotty old ladies?
Hope you are ok now, Digeroo. Take it easy!
Hospitals are always a bit of a shock, some good some bad.
Whats important is that you are OK, slow down a bit and give that "ticker" a holiday for a bit.
Take care were thinking of you x
I think you need to just let that ticker gently unwind, in its own time.
Quote from: Digeroo on July 09, 2010, 13:56:09
There was a lady with signs of dementia. But she still had a great deal of her faculties still intact. She was continually told to sit but never taken out on a walkies. Lets hope she comes back as a dog next time she will have a better time of it.
There is the RSPCA (animals) and the NSPCC (children) but is there an organisation for looking after the interests of dotty old ladies?
My mum is one of those dotty old ladies and gets treated like a 5 year old - Do this do that.
They never ask her what she wants.
They insist on shouting at her, although she has no hearing problems at all.
I'm sure she would be treated better by the RSPCA. Sometimes I don't know whether to scream or cry.
Thank you all for your kind thoughts. Maybe I will be like my uncle who lived to the age of 96 with a very dicky ticker.
The staff in hospital are trying their best but they do not seem to think it part of their job to provide stimulation for patients or relate to them. When I was 16 and had my appendix out there were activities in the ward. The patients made the drinks, laid the table, and fed those unable to. We also rolls bandages and made things ready for the sterilizer and made beds. But I was also provided with a sewing project and made a toy squirrel and knitted a scarf. Pity we were not allowed to make some tea, at one stage we went more than 8 hours without.
Now there is only a pay TV. Which is priced to cope with a known length of stay, it simply did not work for the manana mode of operation. Buying one day at a time was expensive.
I must say too that the old fashioned wards where the staff could see all the patients at a single glance turns out to be a very good idea. Certainly cut out the problem of one patient trying to get into the wrong bed. And Day Rooms what happened to them?
Glad your on the mend Dig. ;D ;D ;D
Hope you are on the mend Digeroo.
I know what you mean about hospital staff, having seen the good and the bad recently.
I always resemble a tramp after an hour or two down the plot - glad you had the extra shoes!!
I spent four days looking like a tramp until my OH bought me some new gear. I just could not explain to him what I needed, Aphasia is a nightmare, so managed to send him a text message and he took it to a shop and the assistant found what he needed. You would expect this of an expensive shop but it was a very cheap one.
I don't know how the staff in the hospital cope with working there at all. It would drive me totally batty. One week was more than enough for me, I couldn't be there for years. I know it is different for the staff than the patients, but never the less the whole atmosphere is depressing, oppressive and demoralising.
thats really bad is there not a kitchen you can use? there was in the maternity ward i was on?
Maybe if your getting daily visitors they can bring you a flask?
Glad your ok and you have a change of clothes.
As for the TV system its worth paying for the week as you can make calls for free (if its the same one i had) and you can bank the days not used for a future stay or if anyone else you know goes into hospital.
Hugs!!
'Hope you'll be back in your "scruffy " clothes soon :)
I remember a few years ago the OH was planting the spuds on the lottie when his back went :o
he had to crawl up a ramp into the ambulance as they couldn't lift him off the newly rotovated ground and when he got to the hospital he said it took him ages to convince them he hadn't been sleeping rough ;D
Get well soon Digeroo x
So glad to hear you made it in and back out of the hospital which proves how rough n tough you are, Diggie.
Maybe the hot weather was getting to you plus too much physical work. As someone said, we hope you'll
rest a bit and take good care of yourself.
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on July 10, 2010, 18:59:27
So glad to hear you made it in and back out of the hospital which proves how rough n tough you are, Diggie.
Maybe the hot weather was getting to you plus too much physical work. As someone said, we hope you'll
rest a bit and take good care of yourself.
I second that! Glad you are on the mend. This weather is a bit too much for everybody. Please take it easy in the heat. In hospital I too feel instantly institutionalised and taken over - hate it. Take care and get stronger fast.
Glad you are feeling better now, take care.