Hospital.....

Wearing pyjamas is the best!!

If they have hospital radio there maybe you can do some DJing :)

Erm, anyway, as long as you've got an iPod and a large pile of books you should be okay. Waking up in the middle of the night can be weird though.

If you'd had this operation a month earlier you could've just lay there and watched World Cup coverage all day. You'd have seen every single match!

Good luck with everything anyway.

just another Saturday night for Matt DC there.

(I'm presuming you're talking about while convalescing, I dunno)

perhaps you will wake up with a more interesting snore

The doctor who gave me the anaesthetic was weird and Scottish, as I drifted off I kept waiting for him to say "just relax there.......BROTHER!"

"just relax there......BROTHER!" ROFL...

use the oats.

Am hoping anyway that eventually I'll feel better, after all this, tho no guarantee. Specialist thinks my sinuses were giving me sleep apnoea so hopefully with them sorted (hoping they are), I'll get some relief.

Trees what are your symptoms? I had an infection and really bad swelling in my sinuses, plus my left nostril was really deviated, they now have said. Feel free to ask any questions.

Oh and thanks everyone!

I was pretty high on morphine for a few hours, I was glad at that point I had my ipod with me

what did you listen to?

:)

Global Communication-14.31 (was really good)
Aphex Twin-Xtal (overegged the ambient pudding a little)

Then I blasted out all 110 or whatever Pet Shop Boys tunes I have on shuffle for a while.

All I have to cling to at the moment is the sheet of paper I got before surgery which said "swelling after sinus surgery is normal and can last four to SIX WEEKS", and a few sites I found online which said recovery can take two months.

other than that....despair. I actually don't know what the fuck I'm going to do if I fail to feel better, I can't advance my career very easily, I can't go out and have a beer, I feel introverted and on the edge of something close to depression because of feeling sick all the time and feeling like nobody can understand, not that friends/gf and family aren't helpful, but I mean they literally can't understand....

what have I done to deserve this? I've missed two summers and there is only a glimmer of hope.....I know it could be worse, it's not a serious condition, but I've never had such bad times as the last 15 months.

I hope you feel better soon; it is depressing to have sinus trouble. Hang in there...

I have Bronchities. I'm in the hospital for it and more that I will share only to trusted people. I'm puking blood, having siezures, going into
shock every now and then, etc. I'm not sure of what to do. I walked in here 2 weeks ago now i'm nervous to say I might not walk out. I feel
to young to die but i'm not sure if I will but for some reason I have a deep feeling that I might. I'm not crazy or mental or dilloosional.
Just a worried/terrified and curious teen looking for some answers. Can someone help?

What are the answers you are looking for?

Or, what questions are you looking for answers to?

Kikibabe95?

Oh no, I think we lost her.

bronchities, the littlest bronchitis

Pam Grier's Bronchities

would catch

A woman on my facebook feed posted that she was going into hospital to "get myself sliced". I don't know what she means by this and I don't think it's appropriate to ask. What does it mean?

In for 3 days, out on the 5th, back last Friday, staying indefinitely til they figure out how to make my gums stop bleeding (low platelets, no clotting). It sucks. Got my laptop from my friends' rescue visit today.

Great time for new cancer symptoms to kick in.

I’m sorry Morbs, that’s awful.

Fuck. Good luck, Morbs.

gl morbs

still neg for COVID!

Being transferred to Mt Sinai for cemo/possible transplant. Things not going especially great.

:(

Rooting for you, Morbs.

oh man. what is possibly getting transplanted?

hang in there bud

<3 stay strong Morbs

I thought maybe this was de-indexed, so understand if you don't wanna share

stem cells for my bone marrow, Hadrian

it's been done before

ah yes

here's hoping you won't need it

Borderline creepy diagnostic comments: "I love imaging your organs."

Ugh. Sorry

good thoughts, morbs xxx

I had a film T/A in college who was waiting for some of us to turn in our (late) papers and he would say things like “I’m dying to get my hands on your prose!”

tbf, your organs are v v v cuet morbs

not the ones inside

I love you. You can never leave

Morbs I have watched all the BP nominees from last year and I completely agree with you that LW was robbed. I hope you can get all the seasons of Maisel from where you are.

thx, I hope yr daughter is not that many years away from apprec'g Little Women.

I'd like to see M Maisel develop a personal style for her act more directly (w/out having her steal like the semi-husband)… maybe she'll end up in a landmark improv troupe like Barbara Harris.

hosp nutritionists thinking id love poundcake are a puzzle

AFTER A MONTH in, ive been told to wear a mask in the room whenever someone comes in. (every 7-20 minutes really)

must be new CDC Ouija board

please kill me, preferably with a spine-splitting shit

Bored. Feel nothing.

i wonder if they give poundcake as general placation.

are you tired of watching stuff?

takes lots of effort. also wifi craps out too often.

yeah my experience of hospital wifi was bad. there was a free tier & a pay tier. & you had to pay each day to get the tv to work! this was at a public hospital in France.

you can download stuff on netflix and amazon prime ( i am sure maybe others) if you want to store some stuff up because of the bad wifi.

I don't Netflix

wifi just has to be renewed every 60-90 mins. Pain in the ass!

OK, they brought me a mini-pizza for lunch.

with...

WITH…?

CHEESE AND CRACKERS!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The ways of hospital nutritionists are mysterious indeed. Glad to see you can laugh about something.

'grilled chicken salad' was phaps worst yet

shdve known, but one can only eliminate after each mistake

here's hoping that particular elimination was a pleasurable one, morbius

they sound like they're trying to fatten you up!!

the 'salad' wouldn't fatten up Gandhi

I think there were 4 strips of chicken

cheese and crackers is always a good meal to me

agree though that hospital food in general is bad

they gave it with ACTUAL PIZZA though

New treatment plan in place. Three more weeks in here.

Sounds like an exit strategy to me, Doc - the good kind. Is it?

I guess, at best.

life is an exit strategy

Just hit 2 weeks in a hospital in Bangkok which was supposed to be no longer than a long weekend. No end in sight. Had back surgery for two herniated disc, woke up and both legs were numb. My right leg has made a lot of improvement but my left is still pretty worthless. Doing PT every morning and now they have me “walking” in something called a PMS machine which is fucking exhausting. Woke up the night after the first session and felt like my legs were on fire.

In a semi private room and got my third roommate yesterday who brought two women with him. So now there’s four of us in one room. One of the ladies coughed all night and would spit into the trashcan afterwards. Plus they talked throughout the night and I barely slept. This shit is going to drive me insane. Haven’t seen my kids or wife in two weeks. Now the doc wants to do a new MRI which I assume could lead to me having another surgery. This sucks

Good lord, that's all terrible to hear! Damn. So no provision for even a quick visit from your family?

Yeah they’re gonna come up on Saturday for a long weekend. My poor wife has been holding it down in Phnom Penh, keeping the kids in school and working her hard ass job. I honestly don’t want to burden her with the trip but she really wants to come.

Just played “easy” by the commodores three times in a row so feeling better

What the fuck Heez! jesus

dang Heez, hope things are looking up soon <3

Thanks all

Just got discharged after *Muddy Waters voice* forty days and forty nights

Still can’t walk but I’ll at least be doing PT in Phnom Penh with my family. One day I’ll be able to look back and say, damn that truly sucked

wishing you a speedy recovery

Congratulations!!

Hope you are able to recover well, Heez

congratulations Heez, enjoy being out of hospital. and be kind to yourself! that’s a long time and adjustment can be very weird.