*sigh* back to the hospital in less than 4 hours and I can't sleep.
its strange to admit but there are actually things about being in MORTON PLANT hospital in CLEARWATER, FL that i like. i like the comfy air-beds. i like the worry-free time without my son (i.e. a parenting break.) i like the fact that jammies are socially acceptable, even encouraged, to be worn round the clock. i like having no expectations other than to sleep, eat, watch television and eat ice chips. i like the drugs - yes, i admit, i like the pre-surgery and post-surgery drugs... the ones they give you before the pain is administered, and after it has happened and before you can really fully realize that pain exists and you have to start asking again for something to kill the pain. i like dialysis at the hospital because they let you lay in your bed instead of sit in a very uncomfortable chair like i usually do three times a week. i absolutely love the warm blankets - piles and piles of them. at my hospital i also like the food because you can order it from a menu, all hours of the day, and they bring whatever you want and it actually tastes good. the food is better than my own cooking (which isn't saying much because i can't cook!) i like joking with the nice nurses and flirting with the cute boy nurses. i like most of the doctors. i do like special attention, like a trip out the door in a wheelchair so i don't have to walk. i like the flowers my mother always sends and the stuffed animals ken always buys. i like seeing dot, my doctor's nurse, who usually only works at the hospital and is hardly ever at the office... she has a smile that could make me feel better instantly.
there are aspects of the hospital that i don't like, either. like, having a need to go there in the first place. surgery, in general, sucks no matter what body part is submitted to it. i don't like incompetent nurses who screw up my medication doses after i've printed off five different copies of my medication list and given it to everyone, as well as personally stapled it to my own chart. or nurses who don't understand the concept of phosphorous binders or even the concept of "take only as needed with meals and food". i don't like having to share a room - especially with a really old patient, or a really deaf patient who turns up the tv at two in the morning, or a patient who runs to the bathroom every five minutes to throw up, or someone who smells or has bad hygiene, or someone who has every freaking member of their family, including all their second cousins, visit them and then stay two hours past visiting hours. i also don't appreciate patient/roommates trying to force pleasant conversation upon me when i'm obviously trying to sleep, or eat, or read, or, well, pretty much at any time - i like to be left alone damnit! i don't like hospital gowns and refuse to wear them past the time in which they are not absolutely necessary; and no i will not take off my underpants no mater how insistent you are; and yes you go ahead and get an order from the doctor saying its ok for me to wear them during surgery (because he will say yes - they're only operating on my arm, not on my hoo-hoo) i also don't like being told "we have to get an order from your doctor for...(insert tylenol for a headache, neosporin for a scrape, benadryl for an allergic reaction to the tape they cover me with, etc. here)" i don't like when someone forgets to remind the staff that i'm allowed to be on a 'regular' diet instead of a 'renal' diet (the renal diet is bland and just plain disgusting).
