Thread: A month in a hospital bed

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Hospital is never fun. Especially for extended periods of time.

Last time I discharged myself after 2 weeks, with no ill effects.

A month?
You could get bedsores which could be infected if they don't wash you properly after you bedpan sessions. I hope you've taken that into consideration. And given the time you're lying on your arse, piles could also develop.

Good luck

I'm able to wash myself and get out of bed every few hours. After lunch I get a coffee and take a walk in the nearby park.

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays I can leave the hospital and scrub up properly at home, put back some decent food, upload books to the Kindle, and ... be away from the hospital.

So the title of this thread should be 16 days on and off in a hospital, between poncing around looking at petunias and on the piss every weekend?

No drinking.

Will appreciate the eye candy on the 'outside' though. and some decent grub.

Originally Posted by Gazza

Where are you. I'd be happy to pop round with some grapes.

I just bought him some chocolates. But I couldn't resist eating them all.
Still, it's the thought that counts eh?


I thought they were bloody lovely.

now this comment is what i come to t d for, class humour. thanks mate.

and op get well soon. dont eat all the chocs.

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

A month?
You could get bedsores which could be infected if they don't wash you properly after you bedpan sessions. I hope you've taken that into consideration. And given the time you're lying on your arse, piles could also develop.

Good luck

thank u doc pat.

Originally Posted by Shadows

VN: Thanks friend! No need for a wheelchair though. Feeling pretty good.

The wheel chair was for the drip, Oops sorry I.V.

But you don't need me as you state you are out and about.

I read somewhere that lung abscesses can take 4-6 weeks to treat.

Originally Posted by Shadows

Will appreciate the eye candy on the 'outside' though. and some decent grub.

There's some eye candy on display in Bumrungrad. If you didn't have a cute Asian in nurse uniform wearing glasses fetish when you went in, you'd have one when you came out .

The food sucks there since they started out-sourcing, but if you've got to be in a hospital for any length of time it's not a bad place to do it.

Balcony?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Balcony?

Nope, they fell off that to get into the friggin hospital!

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Please Google Helicobacter pylori and the problems this bacteria can cause. I'm sure you'll be amazed.

Of don't. Jaysus didn't realise Teakdoor ad so many qualified MDs.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Originally Posted by Shadows

Will appreciate the eye candy on the 'outside' though. and some decent grub.

There's some eye candy on display in Bumrungrad. If you didn't have a cute Asian in nurse uniform wearing glasses fetish when you went in, you'd have one when you came out .

The food sucks there since they started out-sourcing, but if you've got to be in a hospital for any length of time it's not a bad place to do it.

Where the heck are they? You oughta be redded for mentioning the nurses then not posting any damn pics of them

^^DIM. Doctor of Internet Medicine.

Originally Posted by Shadows

Will appreciate the eye candy on the 'outside' though. and some decent grub.

Don't say either of those to the ol' doll.

Originally Posted by Shadows

and enjoyed takeouts brought over by my gf. What a doll.

Get well soon. hospital ain't no fun.

If you need someone to look after your drink's cabinet you can send me a PM.

If its just pneumonia and it is under control, they might let you get away with a hep-lock or a saline-lock. You can walk around with it, go to malls or go home and just see the doc when its time for your IV shots.

That would only be for mamby-pamby-nancyboy-willy-woofter wussies.

I had pneumonia when I was about 6yo and had to have a rubber tube stuffed up my nose to go down my throat and into my lungs in order to insert medicines. I gagged everytime and I'm still reminded of it whenever I see someone syphoning fuel out of a tank.


Then I was sent to a convalescent hospital out in the countryside where every morning at dawn all the doors and windows to the single-storied ward were opened and I was only allowed to sit on the bed in my pyjamas looking out onto a dewy pasture. Couldn't go back under the bed covers to escape the freezing winter cold either. I'm surprised I didn't catch pneumonia again.
But then again, I was a kid of the sixties. We had it tough back then.

Originally Posted by Shadows

I'm able to wash myself and get out of bed every few hours. After lunch I get a coffee and take a walk in the nearby park.

Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays I can leave the hospital and scrub up properly at home, put back some decent food, upload books to the Kindle, and ... be away from the hospital.

So, as Dilli said you're just an occasional inpatient. What a fucin drama queeen.

Originally Posted by Gazza

I was a kid of the sixties. We had it tough back then

I'm a kid from the early 50's and it was even tougher then. We use to ..... nah you wouldn't believe me.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

We use to ..... nah you wouldn't believe me.

A good few members here are getting on a bit, so we can do a fundraiser to have our own Teakdoor ward, with slow wifi, ugly nurses and awful food

It'll make everyone feel at home

You are all wimps ! I was bed bound for three years from age seven to ten. So, shut up you moaning minnies !

I read books then because I could not walk. I have no sympathy with whining little grizzlers and suggest you all get over it and act like men should. Be glad you are alive. Sympathy is the cheapest commodity of all and I don't give any to anybody.

Aged 4 I was in for 9 months because I couldn't straighten my knees (kaffers disease) but I don't recall any bedsores or piles, or God forbid, MRSA

Kaffers Disease? Bit of a racist illness, that one. Wouldn't survive in today's PC world.

Down to 3 bags of meds in the morning, 1 at night.

CT scan this Friday.

Should note, when my gf came over last Thursday, and my temp was 40°c I declined to go to hospital. Told her I'd rather die in my bed, such is my dislike of these places.

All things considered this is pretty easy riding. I'm not in here with cancer, or all smashed up from an accident or 'balcony dive'.

Bedsores usually occur when you are immobile and have pressure points. This is why hospitals will turn a patient in their bed so that circulation is not cut off to any part of the body. Bedsores occur frequently in paralyzed individuals if they do not shift their positions. Once a bedsore appears, they are very difficult to cure.

Shadows.... How are you feeling today? Hope you're not too bored. Hope your pillows are soft and comfy.

Hang in there.....

Shadows.... How are you feeling today? Hope you're not too bored. Hope your pillows are soft and comfy.

Hang in there.....