Thread: Unexpected Vacation

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I picked up a cough a day or 2 before Thanksgiving..........pretty much normal for me and this time of year. As usual I figured it would go away on it's own. Well it didn't and by last Saturday I figured I better have it looked at. I ended up having a 4 day stay at the hospital with a diagnosis of pneumonia.

The last time I was admitted to a hospital was over 45 years ago, so I learned a few things in my stay there;

Nothing will make you feel more like an old man than taking a walk while hauling around a pole with an IV bag on it.

TV sucks just as bad in the hospital as it does at home, but it’s harder to find the stations you normally complain about.

If you decide you can probably just use your phone to check the web sites and maybe make a post or 2 rather than bringing a lap top in……. make sure you have your glasses.

They time the nightly blood draws, medications, and vitals checks to catch you just as you’re dosing back off from their last visit.

If they don’t have a real person to come in and wake you back up when you are falling back to sleep one of the machines will start beeping and flashing.

That being said the hospital I was in was new (just opened in April) and really well laid out. They put me on the second floor and I even got a room with a view.



If you look thru the gap in the back wall those really are mountains.


The food service was not what I expected, they actually had a menu to choose from and the food was pretty palatable…….it was nice not having to go down and push the buttons on the vending machines myself.


All that aside, I really can’t say enough good about the care and staff I had, they really were outstanding………. both competent and caring.

Boy it sure is good to be back home again though.

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