One of the most important things about post operative care is sleep...a string of professionals swan in and out of your room telling you to "get some rest" (the irony escaping them that they've just woken you?). I particularly like the 3am obs! Hospitals are really not condusive to sleep! As the night time shift settles in and patients make their way to bed (or roll over from day time to night time position) the sounds of the hospital start...
In the room next to me is a tiny lady who has developed a unique coping method - whenever she is required to move she makes a rather high pitched "whoop, whoop" sound. It's really a very difficult sound to replicate and given she is probably in pain I feel quite awful that it makes me smile. Across the hall is a generous man who coughs up a lung every 2nd hour! Room 203 houses a poor old biddy who must be suffering from some kind of inertia as she's constantly telling nurses she's falling. And of course all the rooms have that steady rhythmic beat of the electronic drips that every now and again make a rather abrupt and rude "ping" when the saline bag is finished.
Whoop, whoop
Cough, cough
FALLING!
Ping
Whoop, whoop
Cough, cough
FALLING!
Ping
You see, give anyone some decent hospital drugs, and they'll think they're a musician ;)
And when during all this did you manage to make that amazing cake for Oli's bday!???
ReplyDeleteYes the TMNT party on Sunday was lots of fun (and very green)! I'm a couple of days out in my blogs ;)
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