Any tips for a hospital stay?

Savvy_Sue

aliasojo wrote:

(Although, if it were me........I'm not sure I would make it too speedy? I'm sure I could get a bit of milking in somewhere. )

Oh don't worry, I'm milking it for all I'm worth already! I've got 6 more work days left, with hospital appointments on two of them, so I'm going to be home late a few days I suspect. And the boys are just loafing around on school holidays. I have already warned them that unreasonable requests may be made next week, along the lines of vacuuming, cleaning etc, because I may get a few visitors once I'm home. And these unreasonable requests will definitely be IN ADDITION to the quite unreasonable request that I should come home to a washing up free zone! Youngest reckons he doesn't know how to cook, and it's about time he did. Eldest will be responsible for the laundry (although I must remember he's taking his final batch of A2 exams in May/June ...) Will find something good for the middle son too. That leaves DH to run round after me, meeting my every whim ...

Well a girl can dream, can't she?

Savvy_Sue

The M&S website was very misleading: when I got to the store they had precisely ONE bra in my size meeting my specifications. And I didn't like it much so I didn't buy it. Didn't bother ringing the bell for assistance either because I could see that their range of 'my kind of bra' was practically zilch, and only a little wider in 'my kind of size but the wrong fabric'.

So I went to John Lewis who were very near closing time and their range was not a lot better. Then I went to Evans and even that was depressing: it seems if you're more than a size 16 you're expected to have a chest like the girls on Baywatch, which I don't.

I gave up and came home. Back to Primark I guess: at least their bras are cheap ... Why did Sloggi give up making my kind of bra in my kind of size?

loopy_lass

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Well it's now March, so allegedly some time this month I will get a phone call offering me a date for my brain surgery (no I'm not joking, but it's minor in the grand scheme of things!)

Since this will be my longest hospital stay EVER - 5 days minimum - and the last was a long time ago, what tips can you all offer me? Moneysaving and other!

Someone elsewhere suggested slipper socks to keep feet warm, but I've got new slippers as well because I don't trust toilet floors anywhere (well would you if you lived in a house full of chaps?)

I also have new button up pyjamas in case there are tubes coming out of my head, and a silk dressing gown for lightness and warmth. Little pots of moisturiser and handcream are on hand, along with 'nice' lipsalves etc. What else should I shop for while I still can? (It's excellent displacement therapy!)

i took some anti bacterial hand cleaning gel in with me, it cleans and sanitises your hands, (also gave the loo seat a quick wipe with it)... only a quid from boots..

kind regards for the op....

hth loops

Savvy_Sue

Found some bright pink flip flops allegedly in my size so I had to buy them, especially as they had decent non-slip soles on rather than those very flat slippery rubber ones. I cannot understand how anyone can WEAR these things all day: the thong between my toes HURTS and they are too tight over the rest of my feet. But at least I'll be able to dry them off on a towel, so I'll take them instead of the pink water shoes.

Wondering whether to put my name in all my bits and bobs - what are the chances of having TWO fans of bright pink accessories on the ward at once, I wonder? It's all quite distinctive!

Savvy_Sue

The letter has arrived, and just thought it would be worth mentioning that one of the things they say NOT to take in is any aerosols, eg hairspray or deodorant. Now doing a deodorant hunt as well as a bra hunt: deodorant I like can't be as hard to find as bras, can it? That's still really depressing ... Oh, and a nail file, I'm trying find a common or garden nail file, you know, the metal ones with a curved end. Obviously out of fashion these days ...

moneynoviceat32

I am sure others have put this one but I didn't see it, Wilkinsons do a pack of 40 antibacterial "nursery Surface wipes" for 79p gives 12 hour anti-bac protection from E-coli< Listeria and Salmonella so I guess it helps against other things too. My daughter spends lots of time in hospital and I always have two packs to clean everything when we arrive, taps, sinks, trolley tray thing (including the underneath) . Also I have decided the next time we go in I am going to get a laminated sign saying something along the lines of please wash your hands before touching her(in a polite way) this includes the people that just come in to do obs who sometimes forget( please don't anyone take that the wrong way and tell me off, it happens!) Good Luck x (just rereading the above and makes me sound a bit ott! and yes i do wash my hands 100 times a day, can't remember the medical name for it , I must be a manic somethingorother!)

Savvy_Sue

moneynoviceat32 wrote:

I am sure others have put this one but I didn't see it, Wilkinsons do a pack of 40 antibacterial "nursery Surface wipes" for 79p gives 12 hour anti-bac protection from E-coli< Listeria and Salmonella so I guess it helps against other things too.

That's a good price: I'll sort through what I've got already but may add Wilkinsons to my 'Displacement Therapy Shopping Trips' list ...

moneynoviceat32 wrote:

(just rereading the above and makes me sound a bit ott! and yes i do wash my hands 100 times a day, can't remember the medical name for it , I must be a manic somethingorother!)

OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - but I think we mothers are allowed to be OTT especially where sick children are concerned!

Thanks for your post!

nearlyrich

Savvy-Sue just want to add my good wishes to the others, hope it all goes well and you are back chatting with us before we realise you've gone. Good luck to your son for his driving test too.

Savvy_Sue

I wear my pink pyjamas in the summer when it's hot ... and I found a pair in Debenhams today which not only fit! in a size smaller than I expected!! but were reduced!!! Plus of course I had some discount vouchers, and I got another pair of pink pj bottoms to team with a shirt, and various other bits and bobs unrelated to my hospital stay, and the free chocolates, so I am happy! Plus I've found bras which fit in Primark and boy was I glad I was wearing one when I had my pre-op assessment because the Nurse Practitioner wanted to listen to my heart (which is still beating) and chest (I'm still breathing).

I am in fact in excellent health, apart from slightly raised BP which could be due to the excitement of having just been weighed and deciding I'm not obese, or just the fact that in a week's time they're going to hack into my head. Stressed, moi? Oh and the doctor doing the neurological assessment seemed to be having difficulty finding any reflexes ...

Savvy_Sue

Most of you will probably have seen my ravings elsewhere because the op's been postponed while I sort out my blood pressure ... Lots of help coming to me through the thread I started on BP: you moneysavers are a wonderful lot. Looks like I'll be around for a while longer ...