YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN THE HOSPITAL TOO LONG WHEN.....

So Robbie and I were bored towards the end of my hospital stay and were coming up with all these things that you know you're in the hospital too long when... so I decided I'd blog about it!! Why not right??? I haven't blogged in a month so I might as well slam the blog with updates! So here goes....

You know you're in the hospital too long when....

   -You count the drips on the floor in the hallway wondering what it is or where/who it came from.

   -You start taking pictures of pictures in the hospital (there was some freaking looking pictures down in the hallways) 

  

   -You start asking about your neighbors

   -When your nurses and everyone else knows you and your spouse by your first name

   -You start having races with the Spirometer

  

   -You see other family members at the hospital visiting another one of your family members

   -You know all the mute buttons on all the machines

   -Your spouse knows where all the food/vending machines are in the hospital

   -Your spouse starts trying out the equipment they have for you

   -You think the variation of food is a change in color of jello

   -You start giving directions to people out in the hallways

   -You know all the channels on the tv

   - You start saying bye to your neighbors as they're leaving and you're not

   -You wake seconds before the phlebotomist comes in the room to draw your blood every morning   

   -Your fresh flowers somebody has brought you/sent you has died

   -Your bartering with your spouse for your lunch/dinner

   -You have to tell the nurses what time the main doors at the hospital lock

   -If you know all the generic names of all the drugs you're taking

   -You can start joking with the doctors about drugs

   -You start calling your room "The Suite"

 My view from the chair

 View from the door

    -You try to figure out what everyone else is in the hospital for

    -You ask nurses if they'll sneak food in for you (I really wanted a frosty.....so this was my version of one I could have)....

    -The nurses can take your vitals and not really wake you up because you're used to it

    -People start offering to nurse your child for you until you get out

    -You start taking pictures of everything you're eating

    -Your IV tape starts eating away at your skin

    -You name your IV pole "Ed"

(That was my friend Ed and he had to go everywhere i had to go even if he didn't want to).