Springing someone from hospital
At last you get word. That certain someone you care about is out of the danger zone and can come home from hospital.
For everyone this marks an end to the worries, finger crossing and praying. For the patient, getting released represents so many positive things:
• an end to the waiting game (e.g., when will the doctor visit with more test results or news, when is the nurse going to administer the next dose of meds);
• the potential of a future with much less pain;
• a return to privacy, control and independence – no more poking and prodding;
• hope for quieter times without noisy carts, beeping equipment, announcements over loudspeakers, moaning and cantankerous fellow patients and their boisterous visitors;
• a nearly full night’s rest without being awoken for vital checks or meds;
• bidding farewell to fasting or clear fluids and welcoming REAL food;
• heading out into clean, fresh air and leaving behind the stale institutional ventilation, foreign smells and the inevitable bed bugs and silverfish; and,
• the anticipation of one’s own bed, shower, clothing and the other basic things we all take for granted when we have our health.
Immediately upon hospital discharge, the former patient is unlikely to feel 100 per cent. Yet there’s a tremendous amount of relief for everyone when those gowns are handed in, IVs are removed and you turn your tail lights on the hospital.
Springing someone from all that...bye bye temporary sick bay, hello
AWESOME!
For everyone this marks an end to the worries, finger crossing and praying. For the patient, getting released represents so many positive things:
• an end to the waiting game (e.g., when will the doctor visit with more test results or news, when is the nurse going to administer the next dose of meds);
• the potential of a future with much less pain;
• a return to privacy, control and independence – no more poking and prodding;
• hope for quieter times without noisy carts, beeping equipment, announcements over loudspeakers, moaning and cantankerous fellow patients and their boisterous visitors;
• a nearly full night’s rest without being awoken for vital checks or meds;
• bidding farewell to fasting or clear fluids and welcoming REAL food;
• heading out into clean, fresh air and leaving behind the stale institutional ventilation, foreign smells and the inevitable bed bugs and silverfish; and,
• the anticipation of one’s own bed, shower, clothing and the other basic things we all take for granted when we have our health.
Immediately upon hospital discharge, the former patient is unlikely to feel 100 per cent. Yet there’s a tremendous amount of relief for everyone when those gowns are handed in, IVs are removed and you turn your tail lights on the hospital.
Springing someone from all that...bye bye temporary sick bay, hello
AWESOME!
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