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Old August 13th 08, 11:16 AM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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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Old August 13th 08, 05:26 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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For some people (such as myself) it really is not good. I watch a
few TV shows but I watch them on a recorder where I don't see
commercials and it is not 12-18 hours a day. Some people turn a TV
on as company. The woman I was (foolishly) involved with for a
number of years could not go to sleep without a TV on! I hate the
commercials and I hate reality shows and daytime drama and Oprah etc
etc and that is what was on day and night in the hosiptal room.


That would've driven me insane. I'd want to yell, "Could you turn that
thing off? People are trying to recover here!"

That said, I can also see wanting to watch some TV when you're well
enough to actually focus on it. It must get awfully boring just lying
there. I don't see why they can't rig up headphone connectors to the
TVs so that people who want to listen to it could just put on their
headphones. I've worked out in gyms where this was set up on the
treadmills. They have it on planes. Why not a hospital room?

I realize that headphones might not be practical or even possible for
everyone who is hospitalized. But if your head is covered with
machinery, you're probably not well enough for TV anyway.



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


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Old August 14th 08, 01:40 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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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Old August 14th 08, 05:01 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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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Old August 14th 08, 11:52 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes
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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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