(OT) Ping: Andy low-res diet

jmcquown wrote:

I was fortunate enough to be in a private room. I could turn the TV on
and off at will (and mostly kept it off). I can't imagine being saddled
with someone who wanted just noise on 24/7, especiall not when I'm ill.
I'm pretty good at tuning things out but give me a break!

One complaint (which really isn't a complaint) is my mother has the TV
blaring when it's on. My father was hard of hearing and wore hearing
aids. But he complained if he turned his hearing aids up he heard too
much extraneous noise (yeah, right, this house is so noisy). So he'd
turn them off and turn the TV way up. Now that's the only way Mom
listens to TV. It drives me nuts.


Hospitals are such noisy un-restful places. It's bad enough that there
are various food trolleys, stretchers, and other mechanical things going
back and forth all the time, even visitors aren't always really
considerate - a friend of mine, in a private room, found that the
visitors of her neighbour would step outside their friend's room and
have their lengthy and loud chats outside her door! I think I'd have
called a nurse (she was too ill to get out of bed or shout loudly enough
to get the offenders' attention).

Cheryl