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(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 |
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"CatNipped" wrote in
I was going to have my brother bring my mp3 player but changed my mind since I have a hard time at home not strangling myself with it. Having said that the TV in these rooms can be switched to speakers on the beds which might help except the patient was not that interested in the TV. His "guests" and hired sitters were the ones who watched and they used the loud TV speakers. Well, they weren't there to watch TV, they were there to visit their friend! A nurse should have come and asked them to be respectful of the ill persons who had no choice but to be there listening to the racket - the friends can go home if they want to watch TV! Really, the hospital should not even have had the option of general speakers, but *just* the ones on the beds. Chin Skritches, CatNipped I agree and when I visit in the hospital I keep my visit short. When visited I like the visits short. This is clearly only my sensibility here but I find it stressful after too much time and feel I need to be "on". I would rather rest and have quiet. Others may not feel the same. Andy |
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"outsider" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in I was going to have my brother bring my mp3 player but changed my mind since I have a hard time at home not strangling myself with it. Having said that the TV in these rooms can be switched to speakers on the beds which might help except the patient was not that interested in the TV. His "guests" and hired sitters were the ones who watched and they used the loud TV speakers. Well, they weren't there to watch TV, they were there to visit their friend! A nurse should have come and asked them to be respectful of the ill persons who had no choice but to be there listening to the racket - the friends can go home if they want to watch TV! Really, the hospital should not even have had the option of general speakers, but *just* the ones on the beds. Chin Skritches, CatNipped I agree and when I visit in the hospital I keep my visit short. When visited I like the visits short. This is clearly only my sensibility here but I find it stressful after too much time and feel I need to be "on". I would rather rest and have quiet. Others may not feel the same. Andy No, I think most people probably feel like that up until the point where they are feeling *SO* bad they just don't care about manners. When someone comes to visit you, you feel like they are doing you a favor and the least you can do is be sociable - even when you're too ill. Keeping visits short is really the polite thing to do - if a person didn't need the rest and recuperation they wouldn't be in the hospital! Chin Skritches, CatNipped |
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"CatNipped" wrote in
: "outsider" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in I was going to have my brother bring my mp3 player but changed my mind since I have a hard time at home not strangling myself with it. Having said that the TV in these rooms can be switched to speakers on the beds which might help except the patient was not that interested in the TV. His "guests" and hired sitters were the ones who watched and they used the loud TV speakers. Well, they weren't there to watch TV, they were there to visit their friend! A nurse should have come and asked them to be respectful of the ill persons who had no choice but to be there listening to the racket - the friends can go home if they want to watch TV! Really, the hospital should not even have had the option of general speakers, but *just* the ones on the beds. Chin Skritches, CatNipped I agree and when I visit in the hospital I keep my visit short. When visited I like the visits short. This is clearly only my sensibility here but I find it stressful after too much time and feel I need to be "on". I would rather rest and have quiet. Others may not feel the same. Andy No, I think most people probably feel like that up until the point where they are feeling *SO* bad they just don't care about manners. When someone comes to visit you, you feel like they are doing you a favor and the least you can do is be sociable - even when you're too ill. Keeping visits short is really the polite thing to do - if a person didn't need the rest and recuperation they wouldn't be in the hospital! Chin Skritches, CatNipped Having not been in a hospital (before last month) since I was about 12 this was purely theory but now I have more data. It _was_ nice to be visited but only in small and occasional amounts. When my mother was hospitalized (she's been gone a long time) I would stop in and ask how she felt and tell her where I was working today (I had my own business) and kissed her and left. I know she appreciated by brevity even if my siblings did not quite get it. I could see it took a lot out of her when we were there. Andy |
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