"ever dreaded hospital stay?" - Yup EVERYTIME!!! lol "What helped?" - Beg, plead and suggest for my Doc to let me just come in for the treatments instead of stay there all the time and give reason of "hey it's less time of me in here so less chance of me catching something more horrible than what I already have, plus my sprits will be in better shape so surely will help my recovery"...and it works <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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Ever dreaded a hospital stay?
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athletixbc
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I never look forward to hospital stays, but I understand they are a necessary fact of life for someone with CF. The only time that I actively fought with my doctor over an admission was in 2003, when I had five admissions over an eight month period. When they told me I'd have to go in for a fifth time I really, really fought for home IV but I lost the fight. lol
Iamqueenofeverything
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a laptop helps to stay connected, do research on stuff, play games and work.
bring games you can play yourself along with others like card games such as a regular stack of crads, skipbo, yathzee.
watch your favorite tv shows on dvd.
think the other people mentioned all the good stuff.
bring games you can play yourself along with others like card games such as a regular stack of crads, skipbo, yathzee.
watch your favorite tv shows on dvd.
think the other people mentioned all the good stuff.
I don't dread it too much, just get crazy bored once I start to feel better. The nurses can always tell whenever that happens, I have more interest in my computer, reading, crafts etc. For at least the first few days though, I am a slug as I feel so bad. I haven't been inpatient for nearly a year because I have been successful at doing my IV's at home, but I feel the time is coming where I just may have to go in and get my current IV regimine tweaked as I still feel pretty cruddy, so I am not looking forward to it. Thankfully, the staff always makes me feel at home, go out of their way to make me comfortable on all fronts, including pain control and another perk, the food is actually pretty good and I am allowed to order as much of it as I want any time of the day...
But to survive a stay with my mind intact, I do bring my Kindle, doodle or sketch pad as painting would be messy and a pain, my computer along with my favorite movies, I also make sure that my Netflix subscription is in good standing as there is so much that I watch online. I frequent hulu.com and pandora for music...other than that, I sleep and eat.. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Jenn 40 wCF
But to survive a stay with my mind intact, I do bring my Kindle, doodle or sketch pad as painting would be messy and a pain, my computer along with my favorite movies, I also make sure that my Netflix subscription is in good standing as there is so much that I watch online. I frequent hulu.com and pandora for music...other than that, I sleep and eat.. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
Jenn 40 wCF
I take my playstation 3 with me when I go in. It's perfect. Video games, bluray/dvd player, music, web browser, netflix, and wifi ready. It also has bluetooth so if you want to use wireless headphones while you're hooked up to iv's, vest, etc. you can. Plus the hospital I get admitted to just got wifi so this last time I was in was pretty bearable.