Any tips for a hospital stay?

Sofa_Sogood

Savvy_Sue wrote:

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 ...

Hi again

Sorry to hear about your BP and I doubt it's a case of "White coat Syndrome" ??

Anyway, I haven't read all of the posts, but as another afterthought, if no-one's mentioned it:

UNSUBSCRIBE from all but the main topics here

I can't imagine what your mailbox might look like otherwise. Unless you're the opposite of me and don't subscribe at all

Good luck and best wishes and may everything be pink

(What's with the pink stuff anyway? lol)

Savvy_Sue

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

UNSUBSCRIBE from all but the main topics here

I can't imagine what your mailbox might look like otherwise. Unless you're the opposite of me and don't subscribe at all

I subscribe to a few things, either threads I've started or others I want answers to! Occasionally ones I think I can make a meaningful contribution to or just want to keep an eye on ('cos I'm nosy ...) But it's a good tip! I have been spending less time on here lately, but it's hard!

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Good luck and best wishes and may everything be pink

(What's with the pink stuff anyway? lol)

I happen to like pink. Not pale, wishy washy pink but the fuschia pink or the bright fluorescent pink. Now seems a good time to indulge myself! PLUS, since I doubt I can be bothered to put a name in everything school journey style, I feel it will be helpful for all concerned that if I drop or lose anything anyone will see it and think "I wonder who that belongs to? Could it possibly be the madwoman with the pink fetish?"

I have also acquired a very thik and cuddly pink dressing gown, which the chaps at home are not overjoyed about, and they may have a point as I have described it elsewhere as almost bright enough to read by! Yesterday I was seduced by pink trousers in Primark ... but I have resisted the perfect handbag, which does come in colours other than bright pink which would probably be my preference since I don't want it to clash with my dark red winter coat, but all colours come with a cute little monkey keyring.

I'll keep taking the tablets, shall I?

Thanks for your good wishes!

Sofa_Sogood

Savvy_Sue?

You're really Nina Myscow aren't you? She can't go a day without fuschia pink either :eek:

Own up or keep taking the tablets.

I've got a great bag that would have done you (what for I don't know lol), but it arrived in a box of Karl Lagerfeld stuff I bought (still in the box too )

P.S. Do NOT take in a pair of pink Primark trousers. The specialist's might need to look at you twice Pink & Primark?

Tut Tut

Seriously now. Have they ruled out 'White Coat Syndrome' for your BP?

Savvy_Sue

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Savvy_Sue?

You're really Nina Myscow aren't you? She can't go a day without fuschia pink either :eek:

Own up or keep taking the tablets.

Who? Sorry, I'm fairly culturally challenged ... Right, have found a picture, still don't know her although I might recognise her voice, especially if she's ever guested on The Archers. :rotfl:

I guess I'll keep taking the tablets ... but I can go SOME days without pink, honest!

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

I've got a great bag that would have done you (what for I don't know lol), but it arrived in a box of Karl Lagerfeld stuff I bought (still in the box too )

I'm jealous! Although I have until now resisted pink bags, except occasionally as shopping bags, and right now a pink handbag would definitely clash with my coat which is not pink but dark red.

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

P.S. Do NOT take in a pair of pink Primark trousers. The specialist's might need to look at you twice Pink & Primark?

Primark have very good taste in pink, and the beauty of it is you know it won't last forever and ever and ever! I've been resisting their pink cut-offs for a couple of years now! :rotfl:

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

Seriously now. Have they ruled out 'White Coat Syndrome' for your BP?

Not really, and it's certainly far higher whenever it's taken with one of those ghastly electronic machines! But anyway, even it is 'White Coat Syndrome', I suspect they need to treat it because there's no point me having really low bp at home if it's going to shoot up the moment I get near the hospital. Plus, I'm a lady of a certain age, a couple of stone overweight, whose mother has had really high bp for over 30 years - I have to admit I could have high bp and the only reason I have ignored all the magazine articles recommending I get it checked along with my cholesterol etc etc etc is that I take an "ignore it and it might get better" approach to health most of the time - which usually works, in fact! - and I certainly don't want to become a health freak / bore, which I'm certainly in danger of doing these days!

anyway, thanks for the thought, a colleague is lending me a machine this week (I'm taking a week off but we're all meeting up for breakfast which at least gets me out of bed!) and we'll see if it's WCS or not. However a friend said she borrowed a machine for a week, had nice low readings, and they promptly added something to them "because your readings are always lower at home"! !!! Seems you just can't win ...

Savvy_Sue

Only I know I won't be able to wash my hair for several days post-op, and I haven't seen dry shampoo for ages, and when I last used it it was gross, would rather stay greasy! But Boots mentioned it in their mag, special offer on some. Although having looked it may be an aerosol which won't be any good anyway since you're not supposed to take aerosols in.

But is dry shampoo any good, or do I just need a pink scarf or six to cover up?

furrypig

Just read all this thread...phew!!

So sorry you still don't have a date for the op', especially after all your excellent preparation.

I am due to have surgery (hopefully) in the summer and (hopefully again) will only be in overnight but all these tips posted here are really useful and sensible.

Although I am a nurse/midwife I haven't worked on the wards for years and you forget what an experience it can be, though I have been in hospital myself several times.

Good luck with it all and keep us up to date x x x

Luis

Sue,

I would take scarves and cover up! In the grand scale of things, a few days of grotty hair is probably going to be the least of your worries!

Luis x

Savvy_Sue

Luis wrote:

I would take scarves and cover up! In the grand scale of things, a few days of grotty hair is probably going to be the least of your worries!

How true ... I hadn't got as far as looking at it that way! Good excuse to indulge in a few more nice scarves, methinks, they might get mucky ... found another silk shirt in a charity shop yesterday, need something to do to keep me out of mischief while I'm waiting. :rotfl:

Furrypig, best of luck for your surgery too, my advice would be to get your BP checked now if you don't know it already because if you need to get it down it's a lot easier when you're not stressed to the eyeballs because your op's just been postponed!

Sofa_Sogood

Hi Savvy Sue:D

Nina's another sign of me showing my age - I just recall her as someone in fuschia who was on panels judging people. And an author of something. Seem to remember she had 'attitude' and an 'overbite'. (That might not be the proper technical name, and maybe she didn't lol, but let's say she had a strange chin ) (I daren't say anymore because when I Googled to jog my memory - it led me back here )

Didn't know about Primark btw, but I don't think there's one near me. In fact, there's nothing near me now lol, but I see references to Primark now and then and some people seem to look down on the place. Wherever it is That'll teach me not to believe everything I read

But back on track. Have to agree with Luis about the scarves. How about practising beforehand with some nice pashmina type things? Maybe knotted at the side that won't hurt? I'm sure the nurses will know what I'm talking about, or I'll try and find a picture of what I mean. Trendy type stuff Like retro 40's. (I'm only guessing there - I'm not that old btw lol).

And furry? Good luck!

Sofa_Sogood

Whoops, my memory's going again

I think with the WCS, it helped if you went in hospital early - but I imagine that's not really an option nowadays?