That definitely sucked.

@JoyfulSilence Well, I'm lucky in that I don't need health-insurance. No-one wants to be in hospital but I did have very good treatment from the nurses and doctors; and my convalescence was at home and by a few physiotherapists.

Though it's not easy to sleep in a hospital ward: too hot, too much light coming in from the corridor and nurses' station just outside the 10 or 12 bed room. Especially at 3am when loud thumping would help keeping me awake. On enquiry I was told these were by the cartridges used in the hospital's vacuum-tuve conveyor system, dropping into the receiving tub below the outlet!

@ArishMell

I fortunately had my own hospital room. But still had interruptions all day from staff. Some necessarily, others overkill.

In the rehab home I shared my room with an old man in a diaper who could not walk, and left his TV on all night, and often spilled his open urine bottle on the floor, which sometimes got wiped up, yet only with a towel! When I got up to hobble over to the bathroom, I would turn his TV off, since he was sleeping.

The door was always open, and the staff talked loudly all night in foreign languages. I think they were all African.

@JoyfulSilence The staff I met were considerate but the over-hot room and the excessive light kep me awake.

I did once press my Alarm buttoin, and the nurse soon appeared.

"Not for me", I whispered, "but the chap asleep in that end bed. His oxygen mask has slipped off."

She thanked me and went over to refit it for him.

@SwampFlower Yes and your boat has mountains and better weather. Granted mine has LOTS of swamps.

@CountScrofula Not even the fun swamps though.

@SwampFlower No they're eldritch entities that eat cars. I respect them but they aren't for playing in lol

@SwampFlower lmao.. seriously though, there is no way all this is for nothing. :)

@Matt85 Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Doesn't really change things either way.

@SwampFlower In the Bible, the crown of life is a symbolic gift from God that is promised to those who remain faithful and endure trials. It is mentioned in Revelation 2:10 and James 1:12

@MarbleMarvel oh God. That sounds awful. And they ALWAYS underplay how much shit is going to hurt lol

Like let's do it to you and let me tell you to calm down

@SwampFlower YES!!! I'd rather them give it to me straight! Like, this is gonna be effed up and weird but I promise I know what I'm doing so hold onto something, that's it.

My son has had a few procedures and I haaatteee when they do that shit to him. I will keep putting up with their lies but he's not having it lol

@UBotMate basically how it went