[Closed] Bored in hospital.

Ouch. Good luck. No funny links from me I'm afraid

Nasty! If you want entertainment, just look up the BMJ, find a contentious issue and ask your doctor about it. Failing that, flirt with nurses, scare the other patients or play crazy golf online?

meehaja the nurses are just not that pretty. Been entertained by seeing how nasty the other patients injuries are.

One has had his right leg amputated. One skate boarding with a very nasty lower leg with bits of bone everywhere. Another with a huge hole in his leg and 2 very old ones who look like they are going to croak at any point. suffice to say my injury is the least exciting of the lot.

I feel for you. I spent only 4 days in Hospital with a broken knee once and it was insanely dull. I had absolutely nothing to do though. When a visitor came it was so exciting. I understand now why it's really important to visit people who are in hospital, no matter how unpleasant it is.

You meet some real characters too when you're lying in a hospital ward. You wonder how they manage to get through their lives half the time. Grown men screaming like babies after very minor ops. People who are properly aggressive to the staff for no obvious reason, dirty old men who keep asking for cream to be rubbed on their bums. My ward had a number of chaps in who had been drinking to excess for a long time. One old duffer had been drinking around half a bottle of whisky a day for almost 15 years! God knows how he afforded it. He'd been mixing it with water thinking that would make it alright.

It was still awful though. I was so glad to get home.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

or for an insight into the nurses
http://www.nurstoon.com/

keep your hamstring stretched on your good leg by balancing your grey cardboard bottle of hot piss on the base of your foot then gently extending upwards..i did ,works wonders for your concentration,maybe practise first with an empty one......

Ha ha pegglet. It difficult to get the per out when your manhood is in a cardboard bottle and all that separates you from the other patients is a curtain.

i remember when i broke my ankle a week before my final exams at uni (good timing!) i was going for a waz into one of those cardboard things and filled it right to the top. took some crazy balancing act to reach over to the bedside table to leave the wee box, got so close to not spilling a drop but thought i was home and dry to soon (haha) ended up getting it all over floor. the nurse found it quite amusing!

i read lance armstrongs autobiography, kept my motivated.

You haven't needed a dump yet I take it 😯 😆

GWS

I find ****ing is a good fix for boredom

DW

http://global.smith-nephew.com/us/Plates_and_Screws.htm

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cheers all. Orthopaedics are mostly cyclists and I've asked for some Ti screws.

No dump yet woody. Too scared of what they'll wheel out.

I was in hopsital for 3.5 months in traction when I did my femur.

Fave prank was putting hole in the bottom of the cardboard pee bottles, never got old, nurses used to give us grief as they had to change the sheets.

I know exactly what you're going through! I got out of hospital Tuesday night after being rushed in 7 days earlier. First few days I had no idea what where or when anything was happening so that wasn't too bad. Been diagnosed with a bowel disease now so the long road to recovery has just started for me, I'm bored to tears as haven't the energy to do too much.
Chin up, enjoy the rest as you'll soon be back to rushing round when you're out!Good Luck

When you say "Bored in hospital" thats true. There will be some drilling going on.

Probly won't be plates and screws on a femur - not strong enough. Probly be one of these bad boys....

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get well soon fella

Cheers ayatallo. Glad your're out and getting better. Doctors and nurses have been brilliant so far.

Just want the op so I can get on with recovery and feel less like an invalid.

Whatever happened tp porn as a cure for boredom?

Good luck to Ayatolla!

See if you can drink a full container of hand sanitiser.

Very popular amongst hospital bound American alcoholics, according to a Nurse friend from over there.

urgghhh hand sanitiser. That sounds rough.

Apparently I can stay awake during the op if I like. Has anyone here been through an op awake?

bloody hell shel; i hope mandi doesnt mind rubbing ointment on that!

you can have my 7 week old son for 24 hours, then you ungrateful b'stards would welcome the rest 😉

although i'm ace with nappies and baby wipes i still wouldn't do you; even for your indy fab

Apparently I can stay awake during the op if I like. Has anyone here been through an op awake?

No. But given the state my arm was in after my op I wouldn't want to be. I had my broken elbow wired back on. Afterwards I was bruised from shoulder to wrist. I'm glad I slept through it.

stay awake during a femur repair - no thank you!

Have you seen to tool kit? its the same as carpenters use. Big hammers saws and drills. I'd faint anyway

Apparently I can stay awake during the op if I like. Has anyone here been through an op awake?

They might even give you a running commentary ! 😉

mmm I think I am asking for the general as I don't want to see blood and gore particularly my own.

TandemJeremy - Member
stay awake during a femur repair - no thank you!

Have you seen to tool kit? its the same as carpenters use. Big hammers saws and drills. I'd faint anyway

+1, you'd probably end up asking to be put to sleep.

It's a bit different if you're a little old biddy and an anaesthetic risk, so they want to keep you awake to keep you lungs in good order, or you're having brain surgery that means if they get the wrong place then you're veged for ever, but as a routine femur op, no thanks, give me the general!!

I'd have a spinal (but then I'm a bit weird like that).

They usually put up a barrier between you (and the anaesthetist) and the surgeons (usually known as the blood/brain barrier) and they will let you listen to iPod etc. I'd want to watch, but then as I say, I'm a bit weird like that.