[JoeProBono]

[Average Al]

You don’t go to a hospital to get any sleep. You are there to get treatments or monitoring that you normally can’t get as an out patient.

[yldstrk]

being in a hospital is a horrible ordeal, all the racket, light, taking vitals in the middle of the night, not to mention the food

[R. Scott]

I don’t have much experience with hospitals, I spent a couple weeks in the ICU at the Annapolis Naval Academy hospital and much later a couple weeks in Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Both were quiet at night.

[BuffaloJack]

I always thought that the old joke about the hospital staff waking you up to give you sleeping pills was just that, a joke.
I found out different when I was in the hospital for a heart problem.
They actually woke me up to give me sleeping pills.

[Mister Da]

The night after my appendix was removed, the nurse woke me up to give me a pill to help me sleep. Duh!

[davius]

I was in hospital in the winter and the ambient temperature in the rooms was around 80 degrees. I insisted they open the window in my room and let in fresh air. The nurses checked me constantly and then lingered to cool off. It didn't hurt my feelings a bit.

If a patient must sleep, a white noise generator would knock out 90% of the background noise.

[ctdonath2]

Recovering in the Intensive Care room, it wasn’t the noise that bothered me (nurses playing Monopoly all night was distracting, but let ‘em have their fun), it was THE D@#^ CLOCK WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BED. 2:30AM ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick ... tick AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMAKEITSTOPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A hospital is no place for a sick person.

[June2]

My 81 year old father just had quadruple bypass a few months ago...he spent quite awhile in ICU. I was flabergasted at the constant noise and the seemingly obliviousness of the staff....waking up a very sick man to do the most innocuous things....they wouldn’t even try to lump things together to minimize the disruptions to his sleep.

Between the sleep depravation and the affects of anesthsia, he began to hallucinate. I truly believe the sleep deprivation significantly slowed his recovery and nearly killed him. I wonder how many folks in weaker conditions, who die, maybe not directly from sleep deprivation but as a contributing factor. i would say quite a few.

I think there is a lot of room for improvement in that area of hospitalization.

I have a dream where one day we can dictate how we are treated by being allowed to make informed decisions about our own care even saying that we want to be left alone if our vitals are normal and we are sleeping peacefully. I think sleep is the best medicine in most cases.

rant off....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ah, the hospital.

A nurse coming in at 2:00 am to check the machine. My eyes popped open.

"Are you asleep?"

First night I said, "no" and she offered me a sleeping pill. The subsequent nights I said "yes" and she would snicker and leave.