Hospitals ain't what they used to be! LOL!!

[Bill Little]

Had an unexpected three day hospital stay last week.  Now you have to "order" room service for your meals! LOL!!

Seems I have had an ongoing stomach bleed.  Got two units of blood and didn't even know there was anything wrong.  They caught it while doing labs for shoulder surgery to fix a problem that I have had for about 25 years........  now I have to wait until this stomach thing is healed up.........

Big Bear

[Paul Taylor]

OUCH !!!

That must be going around. Our preacher had that same thing about 3 weeks ago. Could not preach for two Sunday's.

Glad you are on the mend.

[john e. holliday]

At least it, the hospitals are not like they used to be.  Also I wonder about some of the cures.   

[PJ Rowland]

Hospital funding is a big issue. Look at the government not the hospital, or the people whom work in them.

[Tom Niebuhr]

Bill,
Take care of yourself big guy.

[proparc]

Bill,
Gonna miss your merciless and instantaneous shutdown of controversial posts. Needless to say, I will use this time to slip in illegal posts of red hot F3A planes. Just joking, will miss you, get well and come back soon.

[Bill Heher]

Bill - I know what you mean. I spent 4 days a couple month ago for a G.I. bleed. I also didn't know anything was wrong, just thought I was tired from working OT for months. They ended up putting 5 units of blood and 10 of saline in me. Turns out I was anemic / weak from blood loss.

Yeah - Room Service - they give a bunch of choices - then bring you something entirely different - Dr. order for low salt / high fiber / soft food - blahhh!

Hang in there- I was back to work in 10 days, but with a new attitude- live 1st- you can't do anything if your spending all time in the hospital or G.I. outpatient clinic! Airplanes are great therapy!

[Neville Legg]

Hello Bill, did you get my PM? I'm off for a blood transfusion on Tuesday my HB levels are low for a normal size person, but I'm 6'4" so I've been a bit weak and washed out of late, unable to do much at all! Hope you are feeling better old son? By the way, the food is appalling in English hospitals too!

Cheers

[Will Hinton]

Hey Big Bear,
Y'all take good care of you or I'll getcha!  God's best to you, fella.
In Him,
Will

[ChrisSarnowski]

Hope you have a speedy recovery, Bill!!

-Chris

[Ward Van Duzer]

Take care big guy. Don't get riled up over our trade. Just take it easy.

Ward-O

[PerttiMe]

I will use this time to slip in illegal posts of red hot F3A planes.

Better stick to something that goes around in circles ... like a pylon racer. I thought this one might fit the theme

[Jim Thomerson]

In one hospital they fed me "heart healthy" food, and gave me a pill to control gastric reflux.

[Bill Little]

Better stick to something that goes around in circles ... like a pylon racer. I thought this one might fit the theme

Great picture!  Sounds like my kind of guys.

Big Bear

[PerttiMe]

Too bad I didn't take that picture. It is just something I found in a http://www.usrainfo.org/ gallery.

[Clayton Berry]

I rarely have complaints about medical procedures.  I've had maybe 40?  A hip back in 87 (I'd actually shattered the original in a car accident - 4th of July of 75), a motorcycle event in 93 that basically broke both of everything and took about three years out of my life.  Just had my back operated on in March.  Dreaded that one, but I are great now.  Bottom disk was pinching my spinal cord and sending unbelievable pain down the back of my thighs.  I think they pulled the nerve bundle to one side with a bent bicycle spoke and opened it up with a cordless moto tool.  Outpatient.  Walked to the car.

And not to brag, but I took in six units while replacing this metal strap that runs the length of one femur.  My thigh had been flexing and the metal fatigued and broke.  I think they replaced it with a length of concrete re-bar.  The guy slit me open and asked if I had been taking aspirin.  Said I was bleeding pretty good.  Or maybe it was pretty bad.  Duh.  If your thigh is bending (eight breaks and nine pieces on top of the hip joint) you'll eat kumquats if it will ease the pain.  Topped with anchovies and washed down with instant coffee (store brand, 2-3 years old, with a styrofoam cup used daily for four years by three guys at a transmission shop that may or may not have once been used as a spittoon.

The part I remember was about six or eight hours of being extremely cold and having the hiccups for two solid days afterward.

As to English hospital food being likewise bad - freshly shot haggis is served in hospitals?  Shirley, you jest.

I've thanked many folks in the medical profession.  Even the guy that operated on my balls.  Minor pain, he said.  Maggot should have a minor accident with a train, two gasoline tankers, and a bicycle mechanic.  And a truck full of cheap Chinese fireworks.  Grapefruit sized they were, and I sleep on my stomach.  It hurt to wiggle my toes.

[Larry Cunningham]

My very best advice when going to hospital: go limp. That means surrendering whatever dignity you thought you might have had! (Never mind, everyone has seen it all before.. and worse.) And screw them if they can't take a joke..

At the end of February I got to come home after 94 days in hospital, last 88 of them thankfully in the Advanced Care Hospital of Southern New Mexico for special wound care. And three different surgeries.. ACHSNM was superior for a hospital experience, but still no fun. They DID have a good wi-fi, and the wife got me a decent laptop, so I survived.

Go limp. And allow yourself to be helped.

Be well, Bill Little (and why is a such big guy like you named Little?) ;-> Maybe you're related to John Little ("Little John") of Robin Hood gang fame? Be well! I command it.

NOTE: "Go limp" seems to work pretty well for life in general as I grow older.

Best regards,

L.

PS - and don't ask for "souvenirs" of your own bone fragments removed from your foot. While it might sound like a splendid (if ghoulish) idea, encased in clear resin for a paperweight, it is illegal for individuals to possess human body parts in this country.. I asked - considering all the money it cost, I should have gotten something, right? They did let me keep my paper surgery hair net cap.. and my urinal. ;->

PPS - Having young attractive nurses also helps lift the spirits. (See Vanessa below.)

"I have the heart of a little boy:  In a jar of formaldehyde on my desk." -Robert Bloch

[Michael Schmitt]

Hi Bill.

I needed a couple of units of blood in 2005 when a kidney started to beed internaly. (had it removed 5 months later) I found the loss of blood was pretty hard to recover from.Give yourself time and don't be suprised if it takes a while for the engery and endurance to comeback.
Be well

Michael

[Bill Little]

Thanks Larry, and Michael.

The toughest part, right now, is over coming the pain I now have since I cannot take the arthritis meds I had been on.  They promote the breakdown of the stomach/intestinal lining which leads to bleeding.  It had been going on for sometime according to the Doctors.  The "pain pills" are not doing a whole lot for all the joints which are extremely tender to the touch right now.  I didn't realize just how much good that arthritis medication was doing until I cannot take it.  Just waiting to go back and have more blood drawn to see if my level is coming back up.  Then they can do the shoulder surgery which I have probably needed for decades.

Thanks, again, guys!
Bill

[Elwyn Aud]

Glad to hear you're on the mend.  Hope the pain eases up lot.

Dang Larry! 94 days! I knew you had done some major time, but man, 94 days! Your great outlook on life probably helps a lot. 

[Peter Nevai]

My very best advice when going to hospital: go limp. That means surrendering whatever dignity you thought you might have had! (Never mind, everyone has seen it all before.. and worse.) And screw them if they can't take a joke..

At the end of February I got to come home after 94 days in hospital, last 88 of them thankfully in the Advanced Care Hospital of Southern New Mexico for special wound care. And three different surgeries.. ACHSNM was superior for a hospital experience, but still no fun. They DID have a good wi-fi, and the wife got me a decent laptop, so I survived.

Go limp. And allow yourself to be helped.

Be well, Bill Little (and why is a such big guy like you named Little?) ;-> Maybe you're related to John Little ("Little John") of Robin Hood gang fame? Be well! I command it.

NOTE: "Go limp" seems to work pretty well for life in general as I grow older.

Best regards,

L.

PS - and don't ask for "souvenirs" of your own bone fragments removed from your foot. While it might sound like a splendid (if ghoulish) idea, encased in clear resin for a paperweight, it is illegal for individuals to possess human body parts in this country.. I asked - considering all the money it cost, I should have gotten something, right? They did let me keep my paper surgery hair net cap.. and my urinal. ;->

PPS - Having young attractive nurses also helps lift the spirits. (See Vanessa below.)

"I have the heart of a little boy:  In a jar of formaldehyde on my desk." -Robert Bloch

Damn Lar,

You don't screw around! External fixation no less. Must have crunched it real good. Did you at least get spared from seeing the hospital bill? Musta had the meds pump on turbo.

Btw, To exedite processing through the hospital ER, just mention your having chest pains, it's amazing how quick they can be if they even think you may be having an event. I speak from experience, to the tune of 8 cardiac stents, funny at the time I did'nt even feel that bad. The wife made me go, where upon I was told that indeed I was having said event. Faster than you can say verticle eight, I was in the cath lab.

[jim ivey]

OK  Bill, here's the deal. I had a lot of real pretty nurses hope you do too.      That really does help you feel better after  surgery.  After not eating for a couple weeks ALL Food is good. I bet even dead rat or cat would be fine . On the real side, breakfast is usually OK. eat  HAMBURGERS, even hospital cooks cant screw them up. Salads are OK and tomato soup is usually good. I lived on this and occasional fast food  brought in frpm outside for nine months. (july 2007/march 2008)  Anything else, fahgaddaboud it!!!   As they say Here in LA " buena swerte"" <---- good luck    Jim Ivey c ya later aligator