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Out of hospital already yaaaay.
My roommate was non-annoying!
My knee is Not Too Bad (tm). I currently have very mild pain (sitting on the couch, no weight on it) but then the Panadol will have worn off - it's worth noting that my pain is currently manageable even when walking on mere paracetemol.
It also no longer makes crackling sounds when it bends, which pleases me and which the surgeon said was a good sign.
Apparently there was some developed roughness under my patella, so they shaved that off all smooth or something. Then they did the "lateral release".
I am tired, due to not sleeping that well in hospital, although more than I did last time due to non-annoying roommmate (although someone a couple of rooms down needs to see someone about his sleep apnoea) and also having had ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya and myfyr bring my pillow from home to sleep on. My pillow is nice, I'm used to it, it's the right firmness and the right thickness, it smells right and not of hospital laundry, and also, isn't plastic.
(The pillows at StJoG Subi are decent, for hospital pillows, at a good point between soft and firm, etc, but they still have plastic casings because otherwise they'd have to burn them after single-patient use due to risk of infection transmission. So their nice, soft cotton pillowcases are still nice, soft cotton over plastic, which is never, ever going to be as pleasant to sleep on as My Pillow.)
So I managed to get actual sleep, despite things like being woken at 2am to have my blood pressure checked.
(The saga of my b.p. during my stay: Slightly high for the first few, then 124/87, then something like 120/57, and then I was released. >.>)
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| From: | lilysea |
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May 15th, 2013 10:07 am (UTC) |
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Oh, you're a Perth person! ^_^
Do you need deliveries of foods or diversion/entertainment during your recovery? ^_^
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| From: | sami |
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May 15th, 2013 12:00 pm (UTC) |
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:O wot you're in Perth do I know you IRL? Who do we know in common THIS IS PERTH THERE MUST BE SOMEONE
Thanks for the query. At the moment I'm set (I live with three other people, one of whom is my, like, official registered-with-Centrelink Carer), but clearly we should totally meet up at some point soon!
I can't say when exactly, because possibly by, like, Friday I'll be all THAT WOULD BE AWESOME but right now I'm a teeny bit I GOT LIKE TWO HOURS OF ACTUAL SLEEP WHILE I WAS IN HOSPITAL TOPS mixed with SO MANY PEOPLE WHEN I WAS SITTING IN BED MUCH OF THAT TIME IN A VERY UNATTRACTIVE HOSPITAL GOWN AND AAAAHHH and therefore I'm, like, I am only putting up with you people because you live here grr people, a little bit.
I am shooting many mans in Borderlands 2, it helps.
Also, I'm noticing how incoherent this comment is but I think perhaps that goes to my point regarding SLEEP IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CONCEPT WITH HOSPITALISATION.
Although I did drift off for brief periods, because at least this time I did not have a wailing, whining idiot in the same room. When I broke my ankle and had to spend nearly a week in hospital there was one. Screaming at the doctors and nurses that they were depriving her of painkillers, accusing them of punishing her for complaining, and claiming that if she were a private patient she'd get more painkillers (just untrue) or if she were rich and famous she'd get more painkillers (possibly true, after all, it worked for Michael Jackson, except for how NOW HE'S DEAD BECAUSE OF EXACTLY THAT you STUPID YANK SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP).
Normally I'm pretty tolerant of the whole, hey, it's really hard when you're in pain, but since at the time my leg was broken in three places I felt I was actually in a position to be as JUDGEY AS HELL about how people dealt with being in pain, since she'd injured her arm and AT LEAST SHE COULD MOVE AROUND. She didn't have to call for help - from nurses who were always running late because SHE KEPT TAKING UP ALL THEIR TIME - to get to go to the toilet.
Seriously, once I had to wait nearly two hours for a nurse to be able to help me get to the loo, and it DID NOT ESCAPE MY ATTENTION that she'd had two nurses AND A DOCTOR at her bedside for, like, an hour a bit earlier in the day. Not that they had other work they'd have to catch up on or anything.
... this rant brought to you by my apparently still there resentment.
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| From: | lilysea |
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May 15th, 2013 01:40 pm (UTC) |
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Okay, in person I know
alias_sqbr
baby_elvis,
callistra,
cheshirenoir,
cupidsbow,
emma_in_dream,
fred_mouse,
ironed_orchid,
maharetr,
redbraids,
samvara,
stephbg,
strangedave
transcendancing
Yay for getting through with what sounds like relatively little additional hassle.
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