Flopsy back in hospital

Get well soon.

When a nurse stepped in to intervene, the old lady smacked her!
Details, please!

Years ago I foolishly stuck to driving a long way just after a minor operation to remove a stone in my salivary gland and it bled. Filled my mouth with blood, not good for communication. I was admitted for a couple of hours to a general ward. Two beds down was a woman who'd attempted suicide. The doctor came in to talk with her about why she'd done this and I could hear every word. I thought this entirely demeaning - for the woman.

The doctor who saw me, though, was absolutely delightful in form as well as behaviour - young, female, West African of some sort, with beautiful almond-shaped eyes.

Welcome back, flopsy.

Welcome home again, flopsy. Take care of yourself and stay out of hospital. Your tale about the old ladies was rather bittersweet for me. My mother became a little like that during the last days of her battle with renal failure. It was quite sad to see her not able to gather her thoughts and thinking that she was reliving things from years back, when she'd always been so sharp. They did move her into a room by herself later because she had this insistence on trying to get out of bed all the time even though she didn't have the physical strength to do so. I spoke to a nurse they had watching her one day, she specialised in patients with dementia and ones like my mother, she said that it was quite common, she didn't know what caused it. You shouldn't really have been put in a ward like that. When I went in for my pancreatitis and gall bladder last year (I'm cancelling February this year!) I got put in a 2 bed room with another bloke I happened to share interests with, and we both enjoyed looking at the nurses, who all seemed to be young and gorgeous, a view our surgeon shared.

Assessment wards are temporary observation wards after emergency admissions. As most emergency admissions are the very elderly they will of course have a preponderance of these and a proportion will suffer from dementia.
Hopefully stays are only until an appropriate bed becomes available or a decision to discharge.

Flopsy, great to hear that you are back home, look after yourself. That ward sounds like a nightmare, will the experiance lead to a story?

Great to have you back Flopsy. Your description of the ward is an award winning material, as funny as your stories. (why ward and award are that similar?). I bet that being there was not funny at all.

I hope that whatever made you return to the NIS tender loving care was diagnosed and got rid off and you're as well as a newly born bunny.

KJM

I guess we can cancel the bake sale for a robospanker and take Miss Thrashbottom off of red alert. I'm glad you're back with us Flopsy and not stuck in those wonderful wards with people trying to be more than just roommates.

So glad you are back home huni and I look forward to catching up soon. Emma x

Wekcome back Buns. Looks like you have swapped one mad house for another.