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hospital - what to wear?
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ok, so i've to go into hospital tomorrow for a while, and although i'm doing well on the things to take, i'm a bit stuck on the things to wear.
i asked the nurse, and she said just to bring my 'sleeping things', but i'm not sure whether to take some normal clothes too.
i'm going in mostly for tests, so depending on what they do to me, some days i might be bedridden, or i might feel not too bad.
despite spending an unecessary amount of time visting in that hospital lately, all the wards i've been on have been for acutely ill people, so everyone's in their PJs and pretty monged all the time, which is of no help at all...
i asked the nurse, and she said just to bring my 'sleeping things', but i'm not sure whether to take some normal clothes too.
i'm going in mostly for tests, so depending on what they do to me, some days i might be bedridden, or i might feel not too bad.
despite spending an unecessary amount of time visting in that hospital lately, all the wards i've been on have been for acutely ill people, so everyone's in their PJs and pretty monged all the time, which is of no help at all...
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Good luck.
Just pack clothes that are nice and comfortable, as Kentish says if you are well enough to go to the day room you won't want to be in your Pjs.
i never buy any items of clothing that aren't comfy, so i'll just grab a random handful.
i don't know... i'd go to work in my jammies if they'd let me
But that's just me.
I hate hospitals.
Hope it all goes well for u!
Sorry if slightly off topic, hope it all goes well.
Or they might even have this .
She's probably gone by now.
Hope she took out a second mortgage first then...
Yeah, I know! Still, I suppose having the option is better than not. I've been so bored in hospital before I've resorted to counting the holes in the ceiling panels and staring at them till I could see weird faces in them.
Obviously you'd ring them back, as it's 1/5 - 1/4 the price. Plus I'm sure there are still payphones (probably no cheaper to ring out) and people can still ring the wards if they want to.
they do have that, but i'm taking a year's supply of books and my knitting to avoid having to pay
i'm going in at 2 :nervous:
That's alright for the first week!
I'd say good luck but I'm sure you don't need it and you'll be just fine (even if with blistered fingers from all the knitting.)
Those machines don't look cheap to buy, install, etc
And I assume a private company has paid for all of that
It bankrupts my mum-in-law every time her youngest goes into hospital. They are very expensive, so much so they were going to get investigated by OFTEL.
Most of it is very expensive though- the games (addictive to kids) are 50p a shot, and don't last long, the phone calls out are expensive, and so is adult TV and internet.
As I say, I'm glad its there, but the charges of Patientline are very steep.
Hope it all goes well Kaff. Keep us posted off the patientline;)
I quite liked Ben Dover Does Anal IV.
But most of what's on during the day is crap...
When I went into hospital last year, I ended up bringing loads of stuff to, but didn't really use any of it because I was asleep nearly all the time. (combination of being being woken every 4 hours or so and the anesthetic from the operation I had)