My typical night in the hospital (single room) with continuous bladder irrigation and occasional clothing requiring manual removal with a plunger.
every 2 hours, manual blood pressure, temperature.
2 AM
Replace one of two saline irrigation bottle as empty, each one every 2.5 hours.
Empty irrigation drain bag, every 45 minutes
Loud talking in hallway, every 30 minutes
Loud talking from nurses station, depending who comes in, aye last every 45 minutes.
Sorry, this is the only time we can do your chest X-ray 4:05.
Heels clanking down the hall way, twice.
sugar reading 10:30 PM
Thyroid medication 5:15 AM
Manual irrigation 1:15 and 4:20
If I close for, loud clicking upon opening, every time each of the above occurs.
Urine overflows catheter change bedding 2:30 AM
Remote slides down bed and hits me in head 3:27.
I’m sure I am missing something.
Then there were the days I was in a double room.
26 days out of 40, 4 admissions, almost killed me from lack of sleep.
occasional clotting
Hospitals are horrible places for sick people to be in!
Sometimes there’s no choice; but best to get out as soon as you can.