@@amyboyd33 well, for 1 people tend to shake off monitoring equipment in their sleep pretty easily, or it shifts around and ends up giving us bad numbers.
@@mumto2monsters737 When i snapped my femur in half they let me sleep plenty. Granted i woke myself up due to pain and peeing like a racehorse because of the iv. They released me about 11 hrs after my surgery. No joke. I was in pain, but I played it off. I got tired of people watching me pee in a cup by my bed.
Oh my god, as a night nurse this touched my soul. Sleep is SO SO important and therapeutic. Clustering care and actually letting people sleep was the most critical part of my job on the floor.
As a patient, I had to apologize to my nurse after she tried to take my vitals and let me sleep after a C-section. I hit the bed rail! After that, I got woken up every time I had vitals taken. I wonder if my file reads "patient combative whole sleeping." 😂
As a patient, I once had an order for Tylenol that I fell asleep before getting. My nurse let me sleep until I woke up during vitals (which she was taking using only the light from the hallway to avoid waking me as much as possible - worked quite often too). Gave me the Tylenol then, threw in the bathroom run and sent me back to sleep. It must have just been a quiet night but I gave that nurse a present when I was picked up for discharge. Woman was a saint.
Its more complicated than that, you dont help your patient by reducing sleep mainly because it puts stress on the heart, its why sometimes we try to only do nighttime obs on patients that actually need it
As someone who just recently got home from a nearly month-long hospital stay, I can't even BEGIN to tell you how accurate this is! It was mindblowing how my doctors were constantly stressing the importance of sufficient rest for my recovery, but I'd be woken up every two hours all night long, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, to have my vitals taken or my blood drawn. As a chronic insomniac, I have enough trouble sleeping as it is, but in the hospital sleep was nearly impossible. I think I only got a combined total of three hours of sleep for the entire first week I was there. It was hell. Apparently some hospitals are starting to designate themselves as "Sleep-Friendly" & try to minimize nighttime distruptions as much as possible, but unfortunately the hospital I stayed in wasn't one of them.
So true. One thing I've experienced is when a nurse comes in, turns on the light, then immediately leaves for five minutes without turning off the light. Hospitals seem to know rest is important but they never allow the patient to fully rest.
I’m on the nursing side of this scenario and feel sooo bad to have to wake patients, I try to be like a ✨ninja✨and take vitals without waking anyone .. whole time my brain is like “everybody was kung fu fighting”
I'd feel bad for disturbing them too id try to gently/quietly take the vitals and they would wake up and I'd be like go back to sleep just taking vitals. But very sick ones wouldn't realize I was taking their vitals and would continue to sleep
I barely notice anymore. IF I can get to sleep a bomb could go off and I would stay asleep. My parents have actually physically shaken me to no avail. Saying my name doesn’t work either. But I can sleep in a protective position for my IV that gives easy access and they can roll me over if blood pressure is taken. Usually don’t wake up. I sound like the perfect patient esp since needles don’t bother me. But I have also projectile vomited directly in a nurses face- anphotericin with no stomach settler- and I’m a bleeder. So they walk away and come back to thick red shit pouring out. Guess you can’t win on everything
As someone with severe Crohn’s who gets hospitalized regularly, I appreciate knowing that ☺️. But I also know and understand it’s your guys job to keep us safe and alive and appreciate even more all you do for us. Some of the best sleep I’ve ever gotten was when I was in the hospital for a flare or something and the nurse was would come in every 4 hours to give me IV pain meds without me having to call first. I’m used to now sleeping with my arm straight and not moving so that helped a lot.
On one admit, my doctor had me moved away from the nurses station because SHE told them they were too loud, and to leave me alone for a few hours so I could get some sleep. I was on monitors so they could watch. I’m still thankful for her doing that. ❤
Right ⁉️ I'm hooked to the monitors, that you can see from the station,* there's a pressure sensor to see if I leave the bed, and the page button is on the bed rail. Let me sleep. *If not, you can come read them off the screen, quiet as a mouse, and leave like you were never there.
I had a resident like that last year.. he had a full hazmat suit on and I think he thought I was 90 and hard of hearing and shouting about a foot away from my face. He had two other residents with him and he looked like Harry Potter. I whispered “Hey, Potter, I can hear you” the other two unhazmated residents were crying as they tried not to laugh. Was pretty great.. that was day three of not getting sleep and I had no more “f’s” to give 🤣
When I was a student nurse I had a patient who had herpes zoster in his eye. The poor guy was on two different types of eye drops that had to be given every hour. But, they couldn't be given at the same time. So he had to be woken up every 30 minutes for an entire 72 hours for his eye drops. He was a really nice guy, despite his situation.
The best sleep is after surgery (hopped up on meds) when you’re out like a light and no amount of jostling or shoving can wake you. I remember waking up and thinking that was the best sleep of my entire life
After one of mine (this surgery cost me the rest of the feeling in my legs, so I wasn't able to walk and I had super super bad fatigue for months) i was kept up for 48 hours straight because every student, every resident, every nurse and doctor in existence kept coming in to do something. The last straw was when I finally fell asleep and I got woke up by a nurse so I could take... SLEEP MEDICATION. My other surgeries were fine and great sleep wise though, I wish I could have pain meds at home rn though because im fallin apart.
This is absolutely true. I got so fed up with being awakened by staff coming in every 30 minutes for this or that, I asked my attending to prescribe me 5 hours of sleep once per day. At first he was confused, like you need a pill to help you sleep and I said, "No, I need sleep. Real, actual sleep."
As a night shift nurse in the ICU, if my patient is remotely stable, I’ll skip my two hour assessments to let them sleep because it’s a HUGE part of the healing process. It helps that I can always see their vitals on a monitor, so I can still catch new changes. Without sleep, patients WILL develop temporary delirium.
Last time I was in the hospital I had the BEST night nurses!! They were all so sweet!! I have so much respect for nurses!! Keep up the amazing work you do!!!
Awww thanks guys! I love my job! And to further prove my point, I had a patient last night who hadn’t slept well for three days and was hallucinating a little girl in the corner who didn’t speak English and needed to go to the bathroom and also a lady in the ceiling named Dawn who was wearing a lovely headpiece that she insisted I help her recreate with her blanket. She also thought she was in the respiratory therapist’s apartment and apologized for peeing in his bed. Lack of sleep is no joke people 😂
I had one night nurse keep a timer ⏱ for when drips and other alarms were going to go off and she would come wait for 30sec before hand and stop them right away. What an angel 😇
As someone who has often been a hospital patient, I completely agree with this reenactment. And if it’s not you specifically being woken up, they’re coming to see your roommate, not at the same time, of course!
I was in the hospital for 7 days and I don’t know if I slept for more then 20 hours to whole time. It was nuts. Thank god for the surgery’s that was the only way I could.
---So true, I was in for five days needing blood transfusions and then they kept taking it back! A little bit at a time, but still, let me keep the blood in wouldja?!?!
20 hrs that is a blessing. Between the noise, medical codes, annoying roommates and vitals every 2 hrs I was lucky if I sleep 1 hr during my 4 night stay.
The worst for me personally was the patrolling. The nurse on duty would walk around and shine a flashlight in every room to check on the patient and as someone whos incredibly sensitive to light I almost tore my IV off and went home on my own
@@Cherryxarts You would think they wouldn't shine a light though on a patient, especially if they don't know if they are photosensitive or suffer from possibly flashing light induced seizures. I don't know but that sounds like a medical emergency waiting to happen. I would rather they just turn on the lights or literally come in and check my breathing. Last time I slept in a hospital they did that for me. I was like 11 or 13 but still.
I'm sorry for your trouble but we had to do it, my friend got night shift one time and patrolling the ward. She found one of the patient IV get tangled and the needle slipping of. If she found it untimely, that patient my need blood transfusion.
As a person who was in the hospital for 14 days and they didn’t know what was wrong with me, this is the most accurate representation of a patient I’ve ever seen.
In September I was also in the hospital for exactly 14 days without any diagnosis. This is definitely accurate. Especially the IV for me. Same with the being waken up at the crack of dawn for rounds… I’ve just woken up and they’re like “have you eaten breakfast? When was your last bowel movement? YESTERDAY!? We’ll order some laxatives. Also, we’ve decided you’re going to be put on an NG tube because you didn’t eat enough when you literally had enemas two days in a row and weren’t left feeling very good. We’re still going to make you eat while you have the tube in though, even though you can’t even swallow without gagging with one in.”
Was in the hospital for 2 months, following a car wreck. Wasn't able to move both legs broken and right arm/wrist broken. Skin grafts on ¼ of my right leg. "Try to get some rest." 🤨 Then comes the vampires. They ended up putting in a line straight to my heart. Made blood draws so much easier.
We know longer stays generally lead to worse outcomes, but medicine is so defensive in the US. If we discharge a person in 1-2 days, or don't get vitals every four hours or medications round the clock, we get calls from utilization review that the insurance company won't will pay for the visit. We have to be like no nevermind this was just an observation not an admission to the hospital. Or had keep them longer. US health care system is so draining and frustrating, not just for patients but health care providers too
My mom whenever someone is sick at home: blood pressure, pulse, oxygen, temperature in the ear. I thought a bug went into my ear and I freaked out! Temperature was 102F.
I had to be in a hospital for a few months, and this brought back so many memories. Who knew I could ever laugh thinking of those times, appreciated video ahha
This is 100% true, but you forgot about the loud chatter/laughter of staff from the nursing station and the constant bang of the fire doors opening and closing as staff pass through. I feel so bad for my patients sometimes. The hospital is no place for a good sleep.
You forget the "not yet a doctor" interns/students/whatever coming in the room. Telling me alot of Latin terms. Fondling my knee (because getting pulse from wrist is to easy?) and then leaving with the words "we now all know what he has". No I didn't know because I have no clue what these Latin words meant. But thanks for waking me at 3 am for that.
My grandma had brain surgery last week and kept being woken up by nurses shouting trying to communicate with another patient on the high dependency ward. She was deaf and could lip read they could literally have whispered and she could have understood just as well.
One time during my hospital stay on the Cardiac Wing; the staff at the nursing station made so much noise, i thought am i at the Hospital or The Night Club. I serious entertain the dream of Super Gluing their mouth shut so i could get some sleep. I had some handy in my purse. Nurses beware of distubing yr sleep deprive patients because we be plotting and we all know lack of sleep will make you do crazy 🤪 things.🤣🤣🤣
Words cannot describe how accurate this is. I was in hospital having a major op a while ago, and during one of the night checks the nurses noticed that one of my pupils was dilating differently to the other one. They all panicked and kept on calling in different people to look at it, eventually getting the doctor in. Do you know what he said? “He’s tired, let him get some sleep”
This is absolutely true.. only been overnight for a couple nights once and it was probably the worst I’ve felt in a long time. waking you up every 2-3 hours to do blood pressure and tests, food with little nutrition… it really was making me feel worse. I threatened to leave against medical advice if they didn’t release me the 3rd day. I was feeling better and it felt like they were just keeping me to collect more money from insurance.
The most sleep deprived I've ever been in my life was during a hospital stay for asthma. 11 days no sleep, I was hallucinating and actually starting to feel like it was a personal attack (hi paranoia, let's never meet again.) Eventually the Dr understood, I take some of my meds together to sleep. At last! I got some sleep. Second longest, 9 days in a 15 day stay, ICU over the holidays, lungs again. I got very emotional to the point I couldn't stop crying to be able to talk. The Dr threatened to sedate me and I sobbed, "Please do." He was stunned. Don't threaten me with actual sleep in a hospital. I will gladly take the Ramones "I wanna be sedated" route over falling apart any time.
I got threatened too but I just booked myself out "against doctor recommendation". Had to sign paperwork and everything but yeah they were driving me to a mental breakdown
“There was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver Twist to take upon himself the office of respiration…and for some time he lay gasping on the little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next. If Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no-time” -Charles Dickens 😅
I've had 48 surgeries, I'm 51. In my experience 25 years ago, nurses were a lot more aware of keeping the hospital as quiet as they could. Nowadays, I've had nurses laughing loudly, calling out to each other in the halls and all sorts. More awareness and consideration is needed.
Reminds me of the time when my wife had to be transported to a hospital. We picked up an EMT for legal reasons (long story), and who was only there for the ride. This did not please her. She declared “well I’m going to make myself useful, and first began yelling questions at my wife, like “What are your symptoms?” (She was pregnant, trying desperately not to push because the baby was breach). She then drew several vials of blood, which were discarded at the hospital. She made a bad situation much worse, all so she could feel useful.
"I'm here at 4 in the morning. If I'm not getting any sleep, none of you mfs are getting any sleep." *Gets out the pots and pans. At least, that's what it feels like.
So you'd be like, You: Its not my paycheck day Medical staff: no what day You: the only main days I acknowledge is, Saturday, Sunday, not my paycheck day, my paycheck day
This is so accurate! I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, and I literally)y got woke up every 2 hours every night for these things. It took me over a year to finally be able to sleep most of the night through.
The night I gave birth was absolutely insane. Constant checkins for me and baby, on different schedules. I was exhausted after 2 days of laboring, and traumatized, and needed rest so bad. I tried to be a good patient, but eventually did ask if there was anything that could be done so we could have at least one solid hour of rest. The baby cried almost that whole hour we were left alone lol
@@czyjinx I understand the job, as I mentioned I was a good patient, and they were all absolutely angels, I left glowing reviews for every one of them. Rest after trauma IS a need, and while the world doesn't revolve around me, I am a patient with needs myself as all the others are, and they had no trouble accommodating the request (which was a request, not a demand, I just asked if there was anything that could be adjusted and they said yes). It was a quiet time btw, only 3 moms gave birth the whole time I was there. I know because I asked every single nurse and doctor how her shift was going and if she was well, and they were more than happy to chatter about their day while doing their work in the room. Get off your high horse. We're all human here. You sound like a caregiver who is fed up with giving care. If you are I wouldn't blame you, I can't imagine the pressures of the last almost 2 years now in particular, but you may want to check yourself with a therapist if you think patients shouldn't kindly ask if its possible to sync the baby's schedule with the moms for just an hour, after being awake for 3 days (2 in labor, plus the night before and the observation day after). I know that my medical team is not a perfectly coordinated, all-knowing machine, nor are they psychic. If I don't ask questions, how the hell are they supposed to magically know everything? It's a team effort after all. I was blessed to have the people I had taking care of me, and not someone who thought I was an entitled jerk for asking a question. I think of that team often and pray for every one of them.
Same here. I was woken up each hour. Bp, then an hour later temperature, then bp again an hour after that for 3 straight days after delivery. I thought I was going crazy.
@@asdfghyter interesting. I was there because my intestine basically twisted, so I couldn’t eat or drink anything the whole time. I was so hungry and thirsty but they wouldn’t let me have anything, I could only get nutrients through the IV. So that definitely impacted my sleep as well. It was also a very loud hospital & they would wake me up to draw my blood every morning around 4-5 am. Plus my IV would beep at me ALL the time waking me up. I won’t even get started on how many times I puked there 🙃
I actually had a patient say that one of the people she was most grateful for was the housekeeper who would come in every morning and talk to her while cleaning, despite the patient being seemingly unconscious. She'd been like that for a few weeks, and I think most of us on her care team got used to it and stopped explaining everything we were doing (which you are always supposed to do no matter what) but apparently she started regaining consciousness slowly and there were a few days where she could hear but still couldn't really open her eyes or respond. She said that that housekeeper made her feel like an actual person and helped her mental health so much. That story has really stayed with me, honestly everyone you come into contact with at the hospital plays an important part :)
Me, groggily waking up at 4am in a hospital bed to some old lady standing over me. "It's time to put your Picc line in!" It amazed me how little they valued patient sleep.
@Daniel Cordero depends on the level of aggression, could result in anything from a best buddy security guard all the way to chemical or physical restraints all the way to expulsion and arrest (it's a felony to hit medical personnel) very situational dependent.
As someone who just spent some weeks in the hospital, this is so spot on. Just forgot to add the multiple sticks because no one can find a vein for the morning labs. But most of the doctors, each nurse, lab tech, patient care tech, etc were absolutely wonderful. A good amount of recovery is the humanity they show you on your worst days.
Omg! I forgot about that! I’ve been admitted and had to stay in hospital so many times I was in about a month a few years ago and they had to call the IV team in at one point 😂😂😂
I hate going to the hospital, especially when my oxygen is low. They have to use this crazy machine that shoots like air into my mouth and it’s sucks to try and sleep with it.
@@lillivvy1848 nope, not just you. I think being on a IV for some time causes mild swelling that makes your veins hard to see. So usually that first stick for the IV is easy but after a few days, it might get harder to do labs. It also happens if you're dehydrated.
THE ACCURACY. The noises, keeping your arm straight, blood tests at all hours, losing track of time, the roommates you get sometimes, vitals, whole teams coming in, trying to repeat why you're sick while puking or in pain......ugh. I don't miss being in & out of the hospital.
After an 11 hour back surgery I was in the hospital and my doctor asked me after about 4 days if I was ready to do home or felt like I needed to stay longer. I said if I go home are you going to call me every 3 hours to check my vitals. He said I will get your discharge papers ready 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please it was exactly like that, drawing blood every few hours and giving some medicine And didn't gelp me i had hallucination of nurses talking to me 👍
I was just about to comment the same thing. I hate needles and they had to draw my blood like 3 or 4 times a day for like a week. And on top of that I had a IV in each arm and they had to keep putting in new one because they'd fail. It was also hard for them to get them in so they kept missing and end up having to use this tiny x-ray (which was pretty cool aside the situation). At one point they were considering a port which had me freaking out. I'd say it was a nightmare except I was awake for the whole week it seemed. Hallucinations, delirium, all the above. ( I know, I'm just a big puss lol)
I totally get this scenario and I hate having to stay in the hospital cuz of this. I've actually told staff not to disturb me while I'm sleeping it worked for a little bit but then they woke me anyway.
This is so true, I’m constantly in the hospital for reasons I won’t disclose online and they never let you sleep!!! I can’t get better and feel better of you have to get vitals every five minutes!
This is HILARIOUS!!! I just had major surgery at one of the best hospitals in the country and it was NON-STOP alarms, vitals, meds, IV line feeds, everything. This is dead on accurate!
same but it was the best in my state but i was in a children’s hospital so i didn’t hear much of that stuff and slept super well and had great sleep even through the day lol
Either way, I feel like they should make the rooms more soundproof, because as a place of health, they should acknowledge the fact that humans sleep is one of the most important aspects of the body recovering from whatever it needs to recover from for optimal functionality
Just spent a week with my oldest kid in children's and omg between the monitor with the broken backup battery so it had to be plugged in or else it went nuts (of course it would constantly get unplugged and the nurse would forget to plug it back in) the blood work, checks, random crap, the dam cleaning lady coming in when I finally got the poor kid to sleep. We both almost lost our minds 😆.
@@otakumangastudios3617 that would assume that 🇺🇸 hospitals WANT to work WITH the body instead of against it. How in the world would that produce more billable procedures if the person actually recovers efficiently?!
Sleep studies in hospitals arent much better for sleeping. Lol how they get accurate results when the "quite" room has people running around on the floor above all night. Idk lol
Last time overnight I ended up sleeping with my left arm under the side bar, but over my back while on my tummy....i don't if it was the blood construction but i was out like a light lol
I'm so glad that when I was in the ICU I had checks/meds every 4 hours unless my condition changed. I could sleep in 2-3 hour "naps" between checks. Besides the whole fiasco that got me un there, it was a pleasant stay😂 best part is that it was 100% free
I’m a retired RN who has recently become a hospital patient. It’s been a pain in the ass being a patient. You honestly can’t get any sleep at all. As soon as I felt a tiny bit better, I got the heck out of there.
Lol I love working with patients and being in hospital. But when I've been a patient... I almost self-discharged after my 2 babies 😅 but I found the other patients worse than the staff. Staff are working and nice. Honestly, no-one needs to make phone calls every minute of the day and night. I'm glad visits are limited right now. With my first child, I swear the parents next to our room were more noisy than their twins.
@@susang2734 they keep us 72 hrs minimum after birth in my country and I've never been so sleep deprived, and weak as the days following my hospital stay (with a newborn so not much sleep happening) I have pictures of my blood red eyes in pits and white face. By day 3 I was cry-begging for 2 hrs of them leaving me alone. No wonder so many mother's end up with PPD.
This is so accurate. The “what day is it” thing happened to me when I got woken up at 5am and I said “idk” and the nurse was so worried and she was like “do you know where you are?” and I was like “yes I’m in ICU” and she was like “do you know what YEAR it is?” and I was like “2021” and she was like “oh, okay”
Lmao who wakes someone up in the middle of the night expecting you to know what day it is?? Like I get being a nurse makes you worried for anything but sheesh.
These questions are asked routinely regardless of the time of day and we’re meant to take your answers word for word. We’re not allowed to give the benefit of the doubt because there could actually be an underlying health problem.
So true!! I was hospitalized for 25 days post stroke and literally got no good sleep. Blood draws at 5am, tube feedings 5x a day, PT OT Speech therapy ever day, visitors, God I couldn't wait to get home!!
Only in america.. in the uk there would be an uproar over something like that! Health should never be for profit, we all deserve to live, especially in rich countries that can absolutely afford it. In less developed countries we have a moral duty to help people who want to live just as much as us.
I spent 37 days in the icu. This is soo accurate! By morning I would be crying hysterically and refusing to open my eyes, pleading to just be allowed to sleep!
How oh *HOW* did the algorithm know I've been staying in the hospital lately to have recommended me _this_ video!!! But kudos to you health care staffs for your dedication 👏 you have my respect and appreciation
Yep , i know it well , every half hour my vitals were checked . Then at 6am they switch on all the lights and ask me what I want from the breakfast cart . You definitely cannot rest in a hospital .
@@catmoore2443 as a frequent flyer at southern Miami Baptist hospital, if they turned on the lights then nine year old me would tell them to order breakfast and kill the lights with my eyes still closed. If they didn't, i would hit the nurse call button and ask them to kill the lights. If they refused i would repeat the process until success was achieved. They're definitely not allowed to ignore your call light. It might take an hour or two, but it want like i was going anywhere with a week old toe to hand transplant.
Yup i can testify after they messed somthing up with my appendectomy in 2020 and showed up next week with internal bleeding in my stomach where they had put the camera in for the original operation. Had to stay there another 5 days after just getting out the previous week, terrible time
So painfully accurate. I was hospitalized for a month when diagnosed with cancer, then stayed in the hospital 7 days at a time each month for my chemo treatments after release. Staff had the audacity to comment about me "sleeping in" in the mornings once rounds were over.
Omg I'm sorry they did that to u! Some people just have no brain cells anymore and have the nerve to tell u this while your in the HOSPITAL!!! 😡 I also hope you are feeling better! 😥❤
@@amandakenneally8475 right? And like usually we're in their cause we're sick or our body is being negatively affected, of course we're gonna be tired all the time, even if we do get enough sleep 😤😤
I'm in the hospital waiting for a tricuspid valve replacement bright n early Monday... I've been in the hospital so many times in the last 10 yrs, I can have my vitals taken or get meds, or...really anything! done fast asleep now😌....DON'T SPILL THE TEA HERE, because.the vampires (the hospitals overlords-FREE BLOOD!😂) might figure out that I sleep like a ROCK & just continue taking my blood until I'm porcelain white! Damn vampire racket!
So true. I had 3 major abdominal surgeries in early 2010’s, the 1st was 11 days in hospital and despite the heavy drugs I was on, there was very little sleep to be had at anytime because of the constant interruptions, noisy rattling carts in the corridor, and loud conversations. I remember seeing weird sh*t like the pattern on the curtains moving around.
It's a benefit to have people around so late though. I remember being in hospital overnight for asthma and I decided to eat yoghurt at like 1am but didn't have a spoon and this kind nurse popped up out of nowhere and gave me one
@@funkygenesis Tbh when I was in the hospital I would have loved someone bringing me spoons to eat things, instead of making me walk. I had a quite the bad infection and I walked like a penguin with severe disabilities
This video is so true. When I was staying at the epilepsy monitoring unit they did their best to keep me awake to induce seizures for the tests and omg 😱 I was so tired I wanted to kill them! Lol You stay there for two weeks as well hooked up to like a hundred wires including about 50 itchy electrodes glued to your head and you can’t bathe the entire time. At the end of the two weeks they STILL didn’t have enough seizure activity on EEG and I had to stay there all over again for two more weeks. People don’t realize what epileptics have to go through lol
They put a thing on top of where they put the drip in so my arm wouldn’t bend at all lol so I didn’t have to make sure my arm wasn’t bending or moving the needle too much thankfully-
When I had neck/ spine surgery last year, they put IVs in my hands. When the nurse started the first one, I said I had a better vein -> pointed at inner arm. (Always where I get IV injections & blood taken.) She said she didn't like to do that because they'd be in for a few days & I should be able to bend my elbows. Seems logical. Also, they did the second one after I was unconscious, also logical. The only rotten thing was that I had nerve testing the whole way through the surgery (to make sure nerve signals were not affected, they measure the signal with needle electrodes). By day 2, every IV injection & drip stung like HELL & nobody knew why. They took one out because I said I really felt like I wanted to rip it out, it was so sore (- & I was going home the next day, & the other one was still okay, & I wasn't on constant IVs by then). Nobody knew why it stung so much. Or why I had caked blood in my scalp - but a very lovely nurse did comb it out for me. The nurse, who was older & I think had also been an OR nurse - on the day I was discharged explained I would have literally been pinned down, in a cage-like thing to stop me moving. Over the next week, despite the fact my surgery fused 3 vertebra, I had SO much extra pain from bruises in the soles of my feet & all over my hands, as well as symmetrical ones across different parts of my body. OMG, bruises on the soles of your feet, with multiple tiny needle prices in every bruises hurt like hell!! It took me a few months before I looked up how the electromonitoring worked, and I am NOT usually queasy!!
True, Occlusion is the beeping one at the beginning, my Husband was in the Hospital a lot and I work in Housekeeping in a Hospital, most annoying beep ever and will go off if you move at all, even an inch.
So funny thing about this. In my 20s I had stage 4 endometriosis and had to have several surgeries back to back and I taught myself how the IV pumps worked somi could turn off the alarms myself and just call for the nurse if something was actually needed 😅
Yep. I get about 15 IVs a year and have learned how to silence the alarm. Then I can just get my nurses attention and have them deal with it. Which is especially helpful when there's 8 pumps going off at once and 5 nurses, that math don't work and I don't want to listen to it.
Lol, I always tried so hard to give my patients at least 4 hours of sleep. Granted, you have to check them every 1 - 2 hours. Learned the art of being a ninja and used my flashlight instead of flipping on lights. We always dimmed the hall lights to help. If they got up to pee, we'd get vitals if it was close enough. If the IV beeped w/movement, would pop in a new one. Hospital psychosis from the constant wake ups and noises is a real thing. 😬 Especially in ICU and StepDown. I truly believe part of the job as a night nurse is to protect their sleep. I didn't understand how patient said they could sleep better during the day until I was a patient. I saw the nightshift staff way more than the day nurses.
Oh my goodness, you have NO idea how validating that is to hear. "Hospital psychosis from constant noises and no sleep is a real thing." I knew that could not just be me, or some fluke! Wow.🤯 Mind semi blown right now. I definitely almost experienced hospital psychosis" after childbirth... thankfully i had the Self-awareness to tell my family and doctor I could feel myself losing touch with reality and essentially B-52'd myself. But, a dozen years before that with my early times being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, I went to Inpt Psych and then the lack of sleep (not only lights and sounds but SCARY PEOPLE i didn't trust! And I was already anxious/paranoid going in) for days may have been what made it even worse before it got better. Bottom line: Thank you not only for sharing your experience and insight (which helped more than you may have anticipated).. but also thanks for being a part of the solution. I always say "SLEEP is the best medicine!"
This is too true, my husband slept so well in the hospital after our daughter was born but they came in to check on me and baby constantly. I didn't sleep at all.
I got almost no sleep for 3 days because I’m a light sleeper when the nurse came in to check on baby and my fiancée I would be wide awake. So I gave up on getting sleep. Fiancée actually slept more than me.
as someone who's spent alot of my childhood in hospitals i can say this is very true but the nurses always brought me drinks and were nice to make up for it
As someone with a heart condition and has been in the hospital multiple times. I've never seen something so hilarious and accurate. Bless the staff, 😆 🤣
This is the most accurate depiction of a stay at the hospital I have ever seen. A few years ago I was in a really horrible car wreck and I had a broken clavicle with a collapsing lung. After a few hours of being there I complained about not being able to breathe very well. A few days later it was determined that my lung had collapsed and we needed to get a chest tube inserted to drain the air from my chest cavity. But this procedure was ordered at 8am and the procedure was done at 2am the following morning. So for that entire time I was dreading the procedure and couldn’t sleep at all. When the doctors finally came into my room, there were about eight students and interns there to watch. This ended up giving me a panic attack, and I locked up so bad I seriously could not move my legs or hands that had curled up. And the students were like “just calm down”. I swear the pain was enough to make someone pass out because there was no anesthesia only a little pain killer which did nothing. But I stayed awake. For the next several days, I was only able to sleep during the day because that was when the nurses weren’t constantly checking in.
@@boopling8206 ahh, It’s hard to tell someone’s tone of voice in text unfortunately. Doesn’t help that I have trouble recognizing it in general. Have a good day. :DD
I've spent many a days in the hospital. A few hospital staffs still recognize me if I happen to need a visit to radiology. Intermittent naps was all I knew for awhile
I was I hospital for over 2 months once. Eventually I was used to the blood tests at all hours because I was in hospital for pulmonary embolisms. I used to sleep through them. When vitals were checked I would sleep through that as well. The nurses were so used to me and me to them. They were wonderful ladies and I will never forget them
I had to stay in the hospital for a few days and everytime I fell asleep my heart rate would slow down(cause ya know, sleep) and the heart monitor would start beeping until it reached a "normal" level again. It was borderline torture
YES! It was the pulse oximeter for me! I'd fall asleep and it would alarm. As soon as I woke up it would stop. It WAS torture! At shift change the new nurse got permission to turn off the alarm. It was a miserable night.
As a nurse, this drives me nuts. If it's known to the patient that he has a lower heart rate than normal, it will be lower when he sleeps. You change the paramaters on the alarm to beep at a lower level. And the beeping can also have volume adjustments.
@@deo3367 People just don't have critical thinking skills. Is 30 a really low pulse - yes... but it works for her. As a former athlete, my resting pulse was 46bpm. I would freak out anyone taking my vitals in a clinic.
@@deo3367 Thank you for being such a good advocate for that patient. Some people just have a different “normal” than everyone else, and if it’s consistent there’s nothing to worry about. I have POTS and my high heart rate really freaks out many professionals until they realize it’s my normal and there’s not much we can do about it. As long as I don’t sit or stand up too quickly and make it spike to 200 with a blood pressure drop, I’m fine, lol.
I swear this is way too relatable, I often had to stay in the hospital for weeks on end growing up (not as often now but I still would) and very few nurses actually snuck in, they just opened the door, pressed buttons on the machine and then proceeded to make it beep and rattle the IV bag they were putting on, you never ACTUALLY slept at night
Scientific community: "Sleep is vital to the healing process."
Medical staff: "So anyway, I started blasting."
This is a criminally underrated comment
💀
You got it on the nose.
"Sleep is necessary to heal."
"No sleep for you!"
Why can't they let you sleep and let technology take the vitals?
@@amyboyd33 well, for 1 people tend to shake off monitoring equipment in their sleep pretty easily, or it shifts around and ends up giving us bad numbers.
😂😂😂😂
"You don't go to the hospital to get any rest." Truest words have never been spoken.
I was in the hospital for a month
Yep. It's not a hotel
Unless you're a meth head trying to figure out why you're hallucinating and they force you to sleep.
@@mumto2monsters737 When i snapped my femur in half they let me sleep plenty. Granted i woke myself up due to pain and peeing like a racehorse because of the iv. They released me about 11 hrs after my surgery. No joke. I was in pain, but I played it off. I got tired of people watching me pee in a cup by my bed.
@@mumto2monsters737 more like the lobby of a hotel.
Oh my god, as a night nurse this touched my soul. Sleep is SO SO important and therapeutic. Clustering care and actually letting people sleep was the most critical part of my job on the floor.
Bless you.
You are an angel!
As a patient, I had to apologize to my nurse after she tried to take my vitals and let me sleep after a C-section. I hit the bed rail! After that, I got woken up every time I had vitals taken. I wonder if my file reads "patient combative whole sleeping." 😂
Hospital manager: what are you guys doing get in there and perform extra tasks all night long so we can bill extra!
Bless you and thank you. I remember this problem for my Grandfather. He was in the hospital a lot and it was like.... Why!!!?!?!
As a patient, I once had an order for Tylenol that I fell asleep before getting. My nurse let me sleep until I woke up during vitals (which she was taking using only the light from the hallway to avoid waking me as much as possible - worked quite often too). Gave me the Tylenol then, threw in the bathroom run and sent me back to sleep.
It must have just been a quiet night but I gave that nurse a present when I was picked up for discharge. Woman was a saint.
That's awesome
Doctors: Get plenty of rest so your body can heal
Doctor every five minutes in the hospital: viTaLS
"Eat a healthy, balanced meal"
Hospital food: ...
@@gillablecam True. Hospital food is the blandest and idk how it turns out like that.
You mean ‘ nurse every 5 minutes.. vitals!!’ 😁
LITERALLY LMAOOO THEN THEY WAKE YOU UP AT 5 am asking if you pooped
@@amangill9763 no, doctor every 5 minutes. Nurses just sleep. (in our hospital atleast)
Dr. Mike said: "We don't want to disturb the patient, but we still have to fulfill our duty as a doctor."
yes 😂
Yeah he did-
I want him to react to this video so bad 😂😂
He also said: “I’m gonna go party during COVID!”
Its more complicated than that, you dont help your patient by reducing sleep mainly because it puts stress on the heart, its why sometimes we try to only do nighttime obs on patients that actually need it
As someone who just recently got home from a nearly month-long hospital stay, I can't even BEGIN to tell you how accurate this is! It was mindblowing how my doctors were constantly stressing the importance of sufficient rest for my recovery, but I'd be woken up every two hours all night long, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, to have my vitals taken or my blood drawn. As a chronic insomniac, I have enough trouble sleeping as it is, but in the hospital sleep was nearly impossible. I think I only got a combined total of three hours of sleep for the entire first week I was there. It was hell.
Apparently some hospitals are starting to designate themselves as "Sleep-Friendly" & try to minimize nighttime distruptions as much as possible, but unfortunately the hospital I stayed in wasn't one of them.
So true. One thing I've experienced is when a nurse comes in, turns on the light, then immediately leaves for five minutes without turning off the light. Hospitals seem to know rest is important but they never allow the patient to fully rest.
Or shutting the door! That way everyone can look in on you as you lay there wearing a half buttoned gown
Holy crap, I HATE it when they do this
I’m on the nursing side of this scenario and feel sooo bad to have to wake patients, I try to be like a ✨ninja✨and take vitals without waking anyone .. whole time my brain is like “everybody was kung fu fighting”
I'd feel bad for disturbing them too id try to gently/quietly take the vitals and they would wake up and I'd be like go back to sleep just taking vitals. But very sick ones wouldn't realize I was taking their vitals and would continue to sleep
I do that with i-v. drips. Barefoot shoes really help. Aaaaaaall sneaky.
I barely notice anymore. IF I can get to sleep a bomb could go off and I would stay asleep. My parents have actually physically shaken me to no avail. Saying my name doesn’t work either. But I can sleep in a protective position for my IV that gives easy access and they can roll me over if blood pressure is taken. Usually don’t wake up.
I sound like the perfect patient esp since needles don’t bother me. But I have also projectile vomited directly in a nurses face- anphotericin with no stomach settler- and I’m a bleeder. So they walk away and come back to thick red shit pouring out.
Guess you can’t win on everything
As someone with severe Crohn’s who gets hospitalized regularly, I appreciate knowing that ☺️. But I also know and understand it’s your guys job to keep us safe and alive and appreciate even more all you do for us. Some of the best sleep I’ve ever gotten was when I was in the hospital for a flare or something and the nurse was would come in every 4 hours to give me IV pain meds without me having to call first. I’m used to now sleeping with my arm straight and not moving so that helped a lot.
You're a goddamn hero and I want you to know that
“HEY SIR I’M JOHN THE MEDICAL STUDENT!” That had me cracking up😂
Lmaoo 😭😭😭
I was ur 1000 like.. :)
And why is his name always John? This is irl too. Lmao.
THE Medical student he is the chosen one
Lol I’ve been in the hospital before there is always someone that wakes you up with a annoyingly happy voice
On one admit, my doctor had me moved away from the nurses station because SHE told them they were too loud, and to leave me alone for a few hours so I could get some sleep. I was on monitors so they could watch. I’m still thankful for her doing that. ❤
You got a great doc there. Don't let that go
Actual hero
Right ⁉️ I'm hooked to the monitors, that you can see from the station,* there's a pressure sensor to see if I leave the bed, and the page button is on the bed rail. Let me sleep.
*If not, you can come read them off the screen, quiet as a mouse, and leave like you were never there.
HEYSIRI'MJOHNTHEMEDICALSTUDENTHOWWASYOURNIGHT?! utterly broke me 😂😂😂 this is way too accurate
😂😂😂
Except there wouldn't be one. They would roll in there at 6am with the whole crew asking you questions.
@@pcbassoon3892naw, they pop in for pre-rounds at 5am, then come in as a herd for rounds an hour later.
I had a resident like that last year.. he had a full hazmat suit on and I think he thought I was 90 and hard of hearing and shouting about a foot away from my face. He had two other residents with him and he looked like Harry Potter. I whispered “Hey, Potter, I can hear you” the other two unhazmated residents were crying as they tried not to laugh. Was pretty great.. that was day three of not getting sleep and I had no more “f’s” to give 🤣
When I was a student nurse I had a patient who had herpes zoster in his eye. The poor guy was on two different types of eye drops that had to be given every hour. But, they couldn't be given at the same time. So he had to be woken up every 30 minutes for an entire 72 hours for his eye drops. He was a really nice guy, despite his situation.
That sounds like actual hell
What is that
@@kiesha2833 herpes in the eyes😔
How do you get herpes in the eye? Wait...maybe don't answer that.....
@@ttp513 usually it's by hand ( you touch your cold sore/fever blister than rub your eyes)
The best sleep is after surgery (hopped up on meds) when you’re out like a light and no amount of jostling or shoving can wake you. I remember waking up and thinking that was the best sleep of my entire life
Mine was awful I kept jumping awake 🙃
You were the lucky one mine was crap.
Bro and when I wake its like I'm on acid for like an hour looking at the wall moving and shit😂
After one of mine (this surgery cost me the rest of the feeling in my legs, so I wasn't able to walk and I had super super bad fatigue for months) i was kept up for 48 hours straight because every student, every resident, every nurse and doctor in existence kept coming in to do something. The last straw was when I finally fell asleep and I got woke up by a nurse so I could take... SLEEP MEDICATION.
My other surgeries were fine and great sleep wise though, I wish I could have pain meds at home rn though because im fallin apart.
Is it like a normal sleep where you have dreams or are you just completely out?
Too accurate. I always found that the best time for sleeping was AFTER the early morning rounds.
YES! In the morning, everyone is busy and you can sleep for a few solid hours.
Then they gave me a hard time for staying in bed....
They’re never around when you’re awake but the moment you fall asleep they all come rushing in
This is absolutely true. I got so fed up with being awakened by staff coming in every 30 minutes for this or that, I asked my attending to prescribe me 5 hours of sleep once per day. At first he was confused, like you need a pill to help you sleep and I said, "No, I need sleep. Real, actual sleep."
Wait is that true
@@tinypancake_1371 yes but for me it was every 2 hours for vitals I got like 5 hours of sleep a day
True ESPECIALY the questions like just let me SLEEEEP idc if your here to pick up a dang backpack.
Same I got hit in my nose that’s the same thing they did to me broken nose
Yeh I know it gets even more crazier the longer your there
As a night shift nurse in the ICU, if my patient is remotely stable, I’ll skip my two hour assessments to let them sleep because it’s a HUGE part of the healing process. It helps that I can always see their vitals on a monitor, so I can still catch new changes. Without sleep, patients WILL develop temporary delirium.
Bless you.
Last time I was in the hospital I had the BEST night nurses!! They were all so sweet!! I have so much respect for nurses!! Keep up the amazing work you do!!!
You are the hero we need.
Awww thanks guys! I love my job!
And to further prove my point, I had a patient last night who hadn’t slept well for three days and was hallucinating a little girl in the corner who didn’t speak English and needed to go to the bathroom and also a lady in the ceiling named Dawn who was wearing a lovely headpiece that she insisted I help her recreate with her blanket.
She also thought she was in the respiratory therapist’s apartment and apologized for peeing in his bed.
Lack of sleep is no joke people 😂
God bless you....you have all done since we'll over the pandemic
I had one night nurse keep a timer ⏱ for when drips and other alarms were going to go off and she would come wait for 30sec before hand and stop them right away. What an angel 😇
You are so lucky
She is amazing.
that's genius. I swear my pumps only alarm when I'm sleeping 😂
As someone who has often been a hospital patient, I completely agree with this reenactment. And if it’s not you specifically being woken up, they’re coming to see your roommate, not at the same time, of course!
I was in the hospital for 7 days and I don’t know if I slept for more then 20 hours to whole time. It was nuts. Thank god for the surgery’s that was the only way I could.
---So true, I was in for five days needing blood transfusions and then they kept taking it back! A little bit at a time, but still, let me keep the blood in wouldja?!?!
I was in for a week and could barely get outta bed, it was fricking terrible, I feel ya
20 hrs that is a blessing. Between the noise, medical codes, annoying roommates and vitals every 2 hrs I was lucky if I sleep 1 hr during my 4 night stay.
I, for some weird reason, continuously fell asleep during all of my MRIs because it was the only time I had to myself...
@@judywright4241 when you receive blood we consistently check to make sure you won’t have adverse reactions so no.. we won’t leave you alone lol.
"he was more awake earlier in my shift"
Ah yes, the floor here is made of floor.
I was thinking the same thing
@Nikola Hristov I mean I’m sure that the air is made of air so I can trust it a bit more than the floor
Astonishing discovery 🤔🧐
Lol
I work as a tech in the ICU, and I'm DYING at how accurate this is 😂
It's heartwarming to know y'all actually understand what you put us through as patients. 😂
The worst for me personally was the patrolling. The nurse on duty would walk around and shine a flashlight in every room to check on the patient and as someone whos incredibly sensitive to light I almost tore my IV off and went home on my own
Bruh who tf shines a light and why
@@spicysalad3013 They have to check if someones in need of help (e.g. suffocating etc.) so they just patrol and check every 30 minutes or so
@@Cherryxarts You would think they wouldn't shine a light though on a patient, especially if they don't know if they are photosensitive or suffer from possibly flashing light induced seizures. I don't know but that sounds like a medical emergency waiting to happen. I would rather they just turn on the lights or literally come in and check my breathing. Last time I slept in a hospital they did that for me. I was like 11 or 13 but still.
@@PinkPanther45518 nurses normally know if a pat suffers from flashlight induced seizures. Bc that would've shown up wayyyy earlier
I'm sorry for your trouble but we had to do it, my friend got night shift one time and patrolling the ward. She found one of the patient IV get tangled and the needle slipping of. If she found it untimely, that patient my need blood transfusion.
As a person who was in the hospital for 14 days and they didn’t know what was wrong with me, this is the most accurate representation of a patient I’ve ever seen.
She wasn’t this aggressive 5 days ago! Maybe some time in the psych ward will help! 🤯
In September I was also in the hospital for exactly 14 days without any diagnosis. This is definitely accurate. Especially the IV for me. Same with the being waken up at the crack of dawn for rounds…
I’ve just woken up and they’re like “have you eaten breakfast? When was your last bowel movement? YESTERDAY!? We’ll order some laxatives. Also, we’ve decided you’re going to be put on an NG tube because you didn’t eat enough when you literally had enemas two days in a row and weren’t left feeling very good. We’re still going to make you eat while you have the tube in though, even though you can’t even swallow without gagging with one in.”
@@Sh3r-Bear🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Was in the hospital for 2 months, following a car wreck. Wasn't able to move both legs broken and right arm/wrist broken. Skin grafts on ¼ of my right leg. "Try to get some rest." 🤨 Then comes the vampires. They ended up putting in a line straight to my heart. Made blood draws so much easier.
We know longer stays generally lead to worse outcomes, but medicine is so defensive in the US. If we discharge a person in 1-2 days, or don't get vitals every four hours or medications round the clock, we get calls from utilization review that the insurance company won't will pay for the visit. We have to be like no nevermind this was just an observation not an admission to the hospital. Or had keep them longer. US health care system is so draining and frustrating, not just for patients but health care providers too
Just missing the blood pressure cuff going off every 10 minutes
Been in the hospital twice with 5+ day stays. Good thing I can LITERALLY sleep through industrial fire alarms...
Patient: “who takes vitals at 3 am?”
Nurse: “OH BOY 3 AM!!!”
Lmaook
I understood that reference
@@nickyspera8996
RN’s can take vitals too, lmao. Work on a unit that doesn’t have techs so we take them.
Best time of the night!!!! Let's go everyone! This is NOT A DRILL
My mom whenever someone is sick at home: blood pressure, pulse, oxygen, temperature in the ear.
I thought a bug went into my ear and I freaked out! Temperature was 102F.
My favorite is when they ask me if I’ve had a bowel movement at 3am🤦♀️
😂
That is the worst!
That ridiculously annoying blood draw at 5 AM after only getting two hours of sleep 😑 I'm never going back to a hospital
@@a1990sGamer lmao I feel your pain. 5 am everyday to get like 6-10 tubes of blood drawn
@@_ApoIIo 😑 Hospitals are horrible places that dont function as properly as they could. Its pretty sad. Those blood draws are the least of it
I can’t express how accurate this is
I had to be in a hospital for a few months, and this brought back so many memories. Who knew I could ever laugh thinking of those times, appreciated video ahha
This is 100% true, but you forgot about the loud chatter/laughter of staff from the nursing station and the constant bang of the fire doors opening and closing as staff pass through. I feel so bad for my patients sometimes. The hospital is no place for a good sleep.
You forget the "not yet a doctor" interns/students/whatever coming in the room. Telling me alot of Latin terms. Fondling my knee (because getting pulse from wrist is to easy?) and then leaving with the words "we now all know what he has". No I didn't know because I have no clue what these Latin words meant. But thanks for waking me at 3 am for that.
My grandma had brain surgery last week and kept being woken up by nurses shouting trying to communicate with another patient on the high dependency ward. She was deaf and could lip read they could literally have whispered and she could have understood just as well.
@@2712gamer I still didnt understand. Since Greek is also one of the languages i dont understand.
But yeah, could be some Greek in there.
One time during my hospital stay on the Cardiac Wing; the staff at the nursing station made so much noise, i thought am i at the Hospital or The Night Club. I serious entertain the dream of Super Gluing their mouth shut so i could get some sleep. I had some handy in my purse. Nurses beware of distubing yr sleep deprive patients because we be plotting and we all know lack of sleep will make you do crazy 🤪 things.🤣🤣🤣
And forget it if your room is near the elevators. It'll randomly sound like the walls are gonna cave in.
Words cannot describe how accurate this is. I was in hospital having a major op a while ago, and during one of the night checks the nurses noticed that one of my pupils was dilating differently to the other one. They all panicked and kept on calling in different people to look at it, eventually getting the doctor in. Do you know what he said? “He’s tired, let him get some sleep”
Fucking hysterical
I'm sorry but what
I laugh so much 🤣
Or you could have a stroke...to me thats justified
@@acrog23 yeah, they don't want to risk getting sued if they miss something
This happens a lot
Especially during night shift somehow
This is absolutely true.. only been overnight for a couple nights once and it was probably the worst I’ve felt in a long time.
waking you up every 2-3 hours to do blood pressure and tests, food with little nutrition… it really was making me feel worse.
I threatened to leave against medical advice if they didn’t release me the 3rd day. I was feeling better and it felt like they were just keeping me to collect more money from insurance.
This is sadly too accurate 😂 I was just there for two days when I came home I slept like a baby the rest of the day 💯
"Ayo wake up, it's time for you to take your sleeping meds!"
Rest in peace Technoblade 🥲
@@alexislennon4973 how is that relevant to this comment
@@busypimpin5613 He said that in his "How I almost became and Amputee" video he says that about midway through 🤷🏻😔
@@alexislennon4973 "wAkE uP wAkE uP yOu NeEd tO tAkE yOuR sLeEpInG pIlLs"
rip techno, his update videos were so witty i really thought he'd make it
"can a nigga borrow a french fry?"
The most sleep deprived I've ever been in my life was during a hospital stay for asthma. 11 days no sleep, I was hallucinating and actually starting to feel like it was a personal attack (hi paranoia, let's never meet again.) Eventually the Dr understood, I take some of my meds together to sleep. At last! I got some sleep. Second longest, 9 days in a 15 day stay, ICU over the holidays, lungs again. I got very emotional to the point I couldn't stop crying to be able to talk. The Dr threatened to sedate me and I sobbed, "Please do." He was stunned. Don't threaten me with actual sleep in a hospital. I will gladly take the Ramones "I wanna be sedated" route over falling apart any time.
Twenty, twenty, twenty more [days, god get me out of here] to goooooo, I wanna be sedated.
Oh no, that sounds absolutely terrible! ... Glad you're ok
Bro what is up with doctors and nurses threatening patients that are crying??
@@EroticInferno just checking on you, Are you ok?
I got threatened too but I just booked myself out "against doctor recommendation". Had to sign paperwork and everything but yeah they were driving me to a mental breakdown
“There was considerable difficulty in inducing Oliver Twist to take upon himself the office of respiration…and for some time he lay gasping on the little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next. If Oliver had been surrounded by careful grandmothers, anxious aunts, experienced nurses, and doctors of profound wisdom, he would most inevitably and indubitably have been killed in no-time” -Charles Dickens 😅
I've had 48 surgeries, I'm 51. In my experience 25 years ago, nurses were a lot more aware of keeping the hospital as quiet as they could. Nowadays, I've had nurses laughing loudly, calling out to each other in the halls and all sorts. More awareness and consideration is needed.
Basically those doctors:
“I’m here at 4 in the morning, time to feel useful”
Reminds me of the time when my wife had to be transported to a hospital. We picked up an EMT for legal reasons (long story), and who was only there for the ride. This did not please her. She declared “well I’m going to make myself useful, and first began yelling questions at my wife, like “What are your symptoms?” (She was pregnant, trying desperately not to push because the baby was breach). She then drew several vials of blood, which were discarded at the hospital. She made a bad situation much worse, all so she could feel useful.
Actually not really for med students we need to present on during rounds, same goes for interns, and residents.
"I'm here at 4 in the morning. If I'm not getting any sleep, none of you mfs are getting any sleep." *Gets out the pots and pans.
At least, that's what it feels like.
I’ll probably fail the “what’s today” question cause I generally don’t care about the day besides pay day 😅
For some cases as long as you know your name and the year you're good.
Facts 🤣🤣
My nurse asked me to spell “world” backwards
@@TheTurtleWithATopHat dlrow 😂😂
So you'd be like,
You: Its not my paycheck day
Medical staff: no what day
You: the only main days I acknowledge is, Saturday, Sunday, not my paycheck day, my paycheck day
This is so accurate! I was in the hospital for 6 weeks, and I literally)y got woke up every 2 hours every night for these things. It took me over a year to finally be able to sleep most of the night through.
I was in the hospital for 5 days a few weeks ago and this took me right back.
So true.
The night I gave birth was absolutely insane. Constant checkins for me and baby, on different schedules. I was exhausted after 2 days of laboring, and traumatized, and needed rest so bad. I tried to be a good patient, but eventually did ask if there was anything that could be done so we could have at least one solid hour of rest. The baby cried almost that whole hour we were left alone lol
Mama's be tied😂😂😂
@@czyjinx I understand the job, as I mentioned I was a good patient, and they were all absolutely angels, I left glowing reviews for every one of them. Rest after trauma IS a need, and while the world doesn't revolve around me, I am a patient with needs myself as all the others are, and they had no trouble accommodating the request (which was a request, not a demand, I just asked if there was anything that could be adjusted and they said yes). It was a quiet time btw, only 3 moms gave birth the whole time I was there. I know because I asked every single nurse and doctor how her shift was going and if she was well, and they were more than happy to chatter about their day while doing their work in the room. Get off your high horse. We're all human here. You sound like a caregiver who is fed up with giving care. If you are I wouldn't blame you, I can't imagine the pressures of the last almost 2 years now in particular, but you may want to check yourself with a therapist if you think patients shouldn't kindly ask if its possible to sync the baby's schedule with the moms for just an hour, after being awake for 3 days (2 in labor, plus the night before and the observation day after). I know that my medical team is not a perfectly coordinated, all-knowing machine, nor are they psychic. If I don't ask questions, how the hell are they supposed to magically know everything? It's a team effort after all. I was blessed to have the people I had taking care of me, and not someone who thought I was an entitled jerk for asking a question. I think of that team often and pray for every one of them.
Same here. I was woken up each hour. Bp, then an hour later temperature, then bp again an hour after that for 3 straight days after delivery. I thought I was going crazy.
@@czyjinx compassion fatigue?
@@9WEAVER9 either that or I’m PMSing
I spent almost two weeks in the hospital and this is so accurate!! It’s torture. I cried several times from being so sleep deprived
Oh god, that's awful!!!
Two weeks dude I spent a whole month and two weeks there 🤦♀️
@@justlexi3049 wow congrats 👏
That was not at all my experience. I got really good sleep at the hospital, but I guess it depends on what you're in for.
@@asdfghyter interesting. I was there because my intestine basically twisted, so I couldn’t eat or drink anything the whole time. I was so hungry and thirsty but they wouldn’t let me have anything, I could only get nutrients through the IV. So that definitely impacted my sleep as well. It was also a very loud hospital & they would wake me up to draw my blood every morning around 4-5 am. Plus my IV would beep at me ALL the time waking me up. I won’t even get started on how many times I puked there 🙃
I'm in and out of the hospital so much and this is so on point 😂
Oh my word, yes. After my first couple of babies, I learned to ask for a no not disturb order in my chart. My doc put it in for 11pm-7am. Bliss!
So being admitted is not like the movies, surprise surprise
Really that's crazy
Mind blowing
Now I’m just waiting for the hate comments who don’t understand the sarcasm…😂
I woke up at 5 am.... I SLEPT AT 2 AM
God no not even close lol 😂
"Hey I'm Johnathan the janitor are you feeling ok"
Hey I’m a fly I need to take a sweat sample
I actually had a patient say that one of the people she was most grateful for was the housekeeper who would come in every morning and talk to her while cleaning, despite the patient being seemingly unconscious. She'd been like that for a few weeks, and I think most of us on her care team got used to it and stopped explaining everything we were doing (which you are always supposed to do no matter what) but apparently she started regaining consciousness slowly and there were a few days where she could hear but still couldn't really open her eyes or respond. She said that that housekeeper made her feel like an actual person and helped her mental health so much. That story has really stayed with me, honestly everyone you come into contact with at the hospital plays an important part :)
Also Jonathan: *nods head*
@@kowhaifan1249 😂😂
@@valeriasoto-herrera8610 that house keeper needs a raise he deserves it
Me, groggily waking up at 4am in a hospital bed to some old lady standing over me. "It's time to put your Picc line in!"
It amazed me how little they valued patient sleep.
This is why any time the hospital suggests I stay overnight after an operation, I tell them I'm fine, please no.
I remember my nurse preceptor telling me "this isn't a hotel" when I showed too much concern for my patient's comfort, LOL
And yet,,, the reports they wrote post night duties includes “patient slept well” 😂
It's far more *expensive* than a hotel lmfao
I feel ya !
@Daniel Cordero depends on the level of aggression, could result in anything from a best buddy security guard all the way to chemical or physical restraints all the way to expulsion and arrest (it's a felony to hit medical personnel) very situational dependent.
@@christopherhammond4515 nobody mentioned hitting anyway
As someone who just spent some weeks in the hospital, this is so spot on. Just forgot to add the multiple sticks because no one can find a vein for the morning labs. But most of the doctors, each nurse, lab tech, patient care tech, etc were absolutely wonderful. A good amount of recovery is the humanity they show you on your worst days.
Omg! I forgot about that! I’ve been admitted and had to stay in hospital so many times I was in about a month a few years ago and they had to call the IV team in at one point 😂😂😂
I hate going to the hospital, especially when my oxygen is low. They have to use this crazy machine that shoots like air into my mouth and it’s sucks to try and sleep with it.
I spent a night so for me its a bit overdriven but they do wake you up at night and very early in the morning
OMG that wasn't JUST ME
@@lillivvy1848 nope, not just you. I think being on a IV for some time causes mild swelling that makes your veins hard to see. So usually that first stick for the IV is easy but after a few days, it might get harder to do labs.
It also happens if you're dehydrated.
God this is so true. My mom's cardiologist finally ordered everybody to leave her alone. She was 91 and was so exhausted.
I certainly can relate. I worked in the ICU as a nurse and I heard this complaints a million times.
As someone who had been to the hospital, this is borderline accurate. Always the midnight vitals, damn it.
Yeah it probably sucks if you’re staying there for longer than a couple hours. But I only got a minor surgery so I don’t know.
@@13_cmi I stayed there for a week for a major surgery, it was living hell.
Even worse after giving birth hollering for vitals. Like just let me sleep while i can. I dont care about my Bp, 02 levels or pulse at this time. Lol
Facts
I knoww rightt
THE ACCURACY. The noises, keeping your arm straight, blood tests at all hours, losing track of time, the roommates you get sometimes, vitals, whole teams coming in, trying to repeat why you're sick while puking or in pain......ugh. I don't miss being in & out of the hospital.
You have a very good ability to put yourself in other people's positions, from nurses to other specialties and even to patients.
I'll never stop laughing at this, one of your best
After an 11 hour back surgery I was in the hospital and my doctor asked me after about 4 days if I was ready to do home or felt like I needed to stay longer. I said if I go home are you going to call me every 3 hours to check my vitals. He said I will get your discharge papers ready 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Please it was exactly like that, drawing blood every few hours and giving some medicine
And didn't gelp me i had hallucination of nurses talking to me 👍
God… every time you enter a hospital room you probably get like some sort PTSD flashbacks
@@thespicyfox9056 not ptsd but yeah badically
@@skrill9306 I forgot to put “something like a”
I was just about to comment the same thing. I hate needles and they had to draw my blood like 3 or 4 times a day for like a week. And on top of that I had a IV in each arm and they had to keep putting in new one because they'd fail. It was also hard for them to get them in so they kept missing and end up having to use this tiny x-ray (which was pretty cool aside the situation). At one point they were considering a port which had me freaking out. I'd say it was a nightmare except I was awake for the whole week it seemed. Hallucinations, delirium, all the above. ( I know, I'm just a big puss lol)
Man im in the hospital rn and they wake me up at 6am to give me a needle 😭🔪
I totally get this scenario and I hate having to stay in the hospital cuz of this. I've actually told staff not to disturb me while I'm sleeping it worked for a little bit but then they woke me anyway.
This is so true, I’m constantly in the hospital for reasons I won’t disclose online and they never let you sleep!!! I can’t get better and feel better of you have to get vitals every five minutes!
This is HILARIOUS!!! I just had major surgery at one of the best hospitals in the country and it was NON-STOP alarms, vitals, meds, IV line feeds, everything. This is dead on accurate!
same but it was the best in my state but i was in a children’s hospital so i didn’t hear much of that stuff and slept super well and had great sleep even through the day lol
Either way, I feel like they should make the rooms more soundproof, because as a place of health, they should acknowledge the fact that humans sleep is one of the most important aspects of the body recovering from whatever it needs to recover from for optimal functionality
Just spent a week with my oldest kid in children's and omg between the monitor with the broken backup battery so it had to be plugged in or else it went nuts (of course it would constantly get unplugged and the nurse would forget to plug it back in) the blood work, checks, random crap, the dam cleaning lady coming in when I finally got the poor kid to sleep. We both almost lost our minds 😆.
@@otakumangastudios3617 that would assume that 🇺🇸 hospitals WANT to work WITH the body instead of against it. How in the world would that produce more billable procedures if the person actually recovers efficiently?!
Not HILARIOUS! It's savage. It's wrong. It's anti-good health. It's largely unnecessary.
As someone who ends up in the hospital about every three years it is no place to get rest!
I agree , you can guarantee someone dies at 3am every night & all the lights & alarms are going off , waking everyone up .
Sleep studies in hospitals arent much better for sleeping. Lol how they get accurate results when the "quite" room has people running around on the floor above all night. Idk lol
Last time overnight I ended up sleeping with my left arm under the side bar, but over my back while on my tummy....i don't if it was the blood construction but i was out like a light lol
Yeah I used to do sleep studies often luckily I don’t anymore last thing I have is a hour long brain MRI
For some reason I end up in the hospital every 2 years, so I'm just gonna prepare for 2023
The accuracy here is astounding 😂😂
I'm so glad that when I was in the ICU I had checks/meds every 4 hours unless my condition changed.
I could sleep in 2-3 hour "naps" between checks.
Besides the whole fiasco that got me un there, it was a pleasant stay😂
best part is that it was 100% free
I’m a retired RN who has recently become a hospital patient. It’s been a pain in the ass being a patient. You honestly can’t get any sleep at all. As soon as I felt a tiny bit better, I got the heck out of there.
Lol I love working with patients and being in hospital. But when I've been a patient... I almost self-discharged after my 2 babies 😅 but I found the other patients worse than the staff. Staff are working and nice. Honestly, no-one needs to make phone calls every minute of the day and night. I'm glad visits are limited right now. With my first child, I swear the parents next to our room were more noisy than their twins.
@@susang2734 they keep us 72 hrs minimum after birth in my country and I've never been so sleep deprived, and weak as the days following my hospital stay (with a newborn so not much sleep happening) I have pictures of my blood red eyes in pits and white face. By day 3 I was cry-begging for 2 hrs of them leaving me alone. No wonder so many mother's end up with PPD.
This is so accurate. The “what day is it” thing happened to me when I got woken up at 5am and I said “idk” and the nurse was so worried and she was like “do you know where you are?” and I was like “yes I’m in ICU” and she was like “do you know what YEAR it is?” and I was like “2021” and she was like “oh, okay”
Lmao who wakes someone up in the middle of the night expecting you to know what day it is?? Like I get being a nurse makes you worried for anything but sheesh.
Imagine if you said you're in the medical tent in 1917.
@@thesupersonicstig probably straight to the mental hospital-
pretty sure to make sure that you’re conscious and nothing is wrong with your brain ( to make sure you don’t have any neurological problems )
These questions are asked routinely regardless of the time of day and we’re meant to take your answers word for word.
We’re not allowed to give the benefit of the doubt because there could actually be an underlying health problem.
"Hey, do you need anything to help with going to sleep?"
"...i just woke up. I was, sleeping..."
So true!! I was hospitalized for 25 days post stroke and literally got no good sleep. Blood draws at 5am, tube feedings 5x a day, PT OT Speech therapy ever day, visitors, God I couldn't wait to get home!!
"Would you like some Tylenol"
"Sure"
*Tylenol listed on medical bill for $500*
Hospital bill
Tylenol:500 dollars
Stat ct head:2300 dollars
Iv antibiotics:15,000 dollars
Breathing air:2,000,000 dollars
Existing:1,000,000,000 dollars
Only in america.. in the uk there would be an uproar over something like that! Health should never be for profit, we all deserve to live, especially in rich countries that can absolutely afford it. In less developed countries we have a moral duty to help people who want to live just as much as us.
*laughs in free healthcare*
@@Anya_0971 yea stop rubbing it in our faces we know our healthcare system is completely dog water
@N Perm no, they need to bring it up constantly. So many morons here think our system is the best in the world.
I spent 37 days in the icu. This is soo accurate! By morning I would be crying hysterically and refusing to open my eyes, pleading to just be allowed to sleep!
I am so glad that I am not the only one who cried hysterically. I was only in the hospital for 9 days, but the first 3 days were ROUGH.
What were you in for 37 days seems like hell
@@Zinfiny pulmonary hypertension, pneumonia, liver failure, fluid retention.
@@TheJulithegreat i hope u are ok now gl
I love these; it’s great to know there r medical professionals that understand…
How oh *HOW* did the algorithm know I've been staying in the hospital lately to have recommended me _this_ video!!!
But kudos to you health care staffs for your dedication 👏 you have my respect and appreciation
This is so true and it brings bad memories back. Imagine being in immense pain AND not being able to sleep for more than 20 minutes. Terrible
I’m with ya, got into a really bad crash last year and fractured my spine, the fuckers wouldn’t leave me be and I had cramps in both shoulders
Yep , i know it well , every half hour my vitals were checked . Then at 6am they switch on all the lights and ask me what I want from the breakfast cart . You definitely cannot rest in a hospital .
@@catmoore2443 as a frequent flyer at southern Miami Baptist hospital, if they turned on the lights then nine year old me would tell them to order breakfast and kill the lights with my eyes still closed. If they didn't, i would hit the nurse call button and ask them to kill the lights. If they refused i would repeat the process until success was achieved. They're definitely not allowed to ignore your call light. It might take an hour or two, but it want like i was going anywhere with a week old toe to hand transplant.
Yup i can testify after they messed somthing up with my appendectomy in 2020 and showed up next week with internal bleeding in my stomach where they had put the camera in for the original operation. Had to stay there another 5 days after just getting out the previous week, terrible time
So painfully accurate. I was hospitalized for a month when diagnosed with cancer, then stayed in the hospital 7 days at a time each month for my chemo treatments after release. Staff had the audacity to comment about me "sleeping in" in the mornings once rounds were over.
Lmao they were mad you got to snooze while they were at work
@@DeathnoteBB lol probably
Omg I'm sorry they did that to u! Some people just have no brain cells anymore and have the nerve to tell u this while your in the HOSPITAL!!! 😡 I also hope you are feeling better! 😥❤
OH MY GOD, THE MORNING SHIFT NURSE “SLEEPY HEAD” COMMENTS. FML. I got to sleep at 4am. I got woken at 6:45 for bloods. STFU.
@@amandakenneally8475 right? And like usually we're in their cause we're sick or our body is being negatively affected, of course we're gonna be tired all the time, even if we do get enough sleep 😤😤
coming from someone who has sickle cell and been in and out of hospitals my whole life, i felt this on a spiritual level lol.
As a small vchild i spend a long time in hospitals. These sounds somewhat bring me comfort
I’m fresh out the hospital and this couldn’t be anymore relatable
Hope you’re doing better :)
I saw your pfp and I started laughing, because Kakashi has been in the hospital more than 2 times I think
Insanely relatable
I'm in the hospital waiting for a tricuspid valve replacement bright n early Monday... I've been in the hospital so many times in the last 10 yrs, I can have my vitals taken or get meds, or...really anything! done fast asleep now😌....DON'T SPILL THE TEA HERE, because.the vampires (the hospitals overlords-FREE BLOOD!😂) might figure out that I sleep like a ROCK & just continue taking my blood until I'm porcelain white! Damn vampire racket!
So true, there is no rest in a hospital when rest is one of the best medicines. Although, it’s much more tolerable when you’re heavily medicated.
100%, plus the 6am “lights on” when the nurses shift change
So true. I had 3 major abdominal surgeries in early 2010’s, the 1st was 11 days in hospital and despite the heavy drugs I was on, there was very little sleep to be had at anytime because of the constant interruptions, noisy rattling carts in the corridor, and loud conversations. I remember seeing weird sh*t like the pattern on the curtains moving around.
It's a benefit to have people around so late though. I remember being in hospital overnight for asthma and I decided to eat yoghurt at like 1am but didn't have a spoon and this kind nurse popped up out of nowhere and gave me one
Sorry but that seems like a minor advantage compared to the commodity that is sleep.
@@funkygenesis Tbh when I was in the hospital I would have loved someone bringing me spoons to eat things, instead of making me walk. I had a quite the bad infection and I walked like a penguin with severe disabilities
This video is so true. When I was staying at the epilepsy monitoring unit they did their best to keep me awake to induce seizures for the tests and omg 😱 I was so tired I wanted to kill them! Lol You stay there for two weeks as well hooked up to like a hundred wires including about 50 itchy electrodes glued to your head and you can’t bathe the entire time. At the end of the two weeks they STILL didn’t have enough seizure activity on EEG and I had to stay there all over again for two more weeks. People don’t realize what epileptics have to go through lol
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@@juliad1985 that’s genuinely terrible to hear sorry u have to deal with all that by simply trying to exist lol
That IV beep gave me flashbacks. Nothing pissed me off more than trying to keep my arm straight for an entire week
Like actual, PTSD flashbacks? Jeez, hope you're good
They put a thing on top of where they put the drip in so my arm wouldn’t bend at all lol so I didn’t have to make sure my arm wasn’t bending or moving the needle too much thankfully-
This is why I don’t do IV starts on antecubitals…
I was in for almost 3 months... that damn beeping... plus at the beginning I had THREE wound pumps that would constantly make horrible sounds.
When I had neck/ spine surgery last year, they put IVs in my hands. When the nurse started the first one, I said I had a better vein -> pointed at inner arm. (Always where I get IV injections & blood taken.)
She said she didn't like to do that because they'd be in for a few days & I should be able to bend my elbows.
Seems logical.
Also, they did the second one after I was unconscious, also logical.
The only rotten thing was that I had nerve testing the whole way through the surgery (to make sure nerve signals were not affected, they measure the signal with needle electrodes). By day 2, every IV injection & drip stung like HELL & nobody knew why.
They took one out because I said I really felt like I wanted to rip it out, it was so sore (- & I was going home the next day, & the other one was still okay, & I wasn't on constant IVs by then).
Nobody knew why it stung so much. Or why I had caked blood in my scalp - but a very lovely nurse did comb it out for me.
The nurse, who was older & I think had also been an OR nurse - on the day I was discharged explained I would have literally been pinned down, in a cage-like thing to stop me moving.
Over the next week, despite the fact my surgery fused 3 vertebra, I had SO much extra pain from bruises in the soles of my feet & all over my hands, as well as symmetrical ones across different parts of my body.
OMG, bruises on the soles of your feet, with multiple tiny needle prices in every bruises hurt like hell!!
It took me a few months before I looked up how the electromonitoring worked, and I am NOT usually queasy!!
True, Occlusion is the beeping one at the beginning, my Husband was in the Hospital a lot and I work in Housekeeping in a Hospital, most annoying beep ever and will go off if you move at all, even an inch.
So funny thing about this. In my 20s I had stage 4 endometriosis and had to have several surgeries back to back and I taught myself how the IV pumps worked somi could turn off the alarms myself and just call for the nurse if something was actually needed 😅
Yep. I get about 15 IVs a year and have learned how to silence the alarm. Then I can just get my nurses attention and have them deal with it. Which is especially helpful when there's 8 pumps going off at once and 5 nurses, that math don't work and I don't want to listen to it.
Lol, I always tried so hard to give my patients at least 4 hours of sleep. Granted, you have to check them every 1 - 2 hours. Learned the art of being a ninja and used my flashlight instead of flipping on lights. We always dimmed the hall lights to help. If they got up to pee, we'd get vitals if it was close enough. If the IV beeped w/movement, would pop in a new one. Hospital psychosis from the constant wake ups and noises is a real thing. 😬 Especially in ICU and StepDown. I truly believe part of the job as a night nurse is to protect their sleep. I didn't understand how patient said they could sleep better during the day until I was a patient. I saw the nightshift staff way more than the day nurses.
You’re such a good nurse! Thank you!
You are my hero!
You are a fucking angel.
you are a good person
Oh my goodness, you have NO idea how validating that is to hear. "Hospital psychosis from constant noises and no sleep is a real thing." I knew that could not just be me, or some fluke! Wow.🤯 Mind semi blown right now.
I definitely almost experienced hospital psychosis" after childbirth... thankfully i had the Self-awareness to tell my family and doctor I could feel myself losing touch with reality and essentially B-52'd myself. But, a dozen years before that with my early times being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, I went to Inpt Psych and then the lack of sleep (not only lights and sounds but SCARY PEOPLE i didn't trust! And I was already anxious/paranoid going in) for days may have been what made it even worse before it got better.
Bottom line: Thank you not only for sharing your experience and insight (which helped more than you may have anticipated).. but also thanks for being a part of the solution.
I always say "SLEEP is the best medicine!"
This is too true, my husband slept so well in the hospital after our daughter was born but they came in to check on me and baby constantly. I didn't sleep at all.
That pisses me off! It sounds like every story I heard the husband gets a full 8 hours!
I'm literally in the ER rn and this is so true, luckily my iv is on my hand now
@@DeathnoteBB I mean they also didn’t give birth to a full ass baby, why would they need monitoring?
@@MegaMinecrafteFan You can monitor a patient without waking them up constantly…
I got almost no sleep for 3 days because I’m a light sleeper when the nurse came in to check on baby and my fiancée I would be wide awake. So I gave up on getting sleep. Fiancée actually slept more than me.
From my experience this is 100% accurate, unless you're waiting for pain meds and then it's tumbleweeds and crickets for awhile 😂
as someone who's spent alot of my childhood in hospitals i can say this is very true but the nurses always brought me drinks and were nice to make up for it
As someone with a heart condition and has been in the hospital multiple times. I've never seen something so hilarious and accurate. Bless the staff, 😆 🤣
Dude samd, esp the vitals monitor beeping everh 30 mins after taking blood pressure
Drove me insane
& I’m sure every stay your BP was up! Take BP @ home…normal!😂
This is the most accurate depiction of a stay at the hospital I have ever seen. A few years ago I was in a really horrible car wreck and I had a broken clavicle with a collapsing lung. After a few hours of being there I complained about not being able to breathe very well. A few days later it was determined that my lung had collapsed and we needed to get a chest tube inserted to drain the air from my chest cavity. But this procedure was ordered at 8am and the procedure was done at 2am the following morning. So for that entire time I was dreading the procedure and couldn’t sleep at all. When the doctors finally came into my room, there were about eight students and interns there to watch. This ended up giving me a panic attack, and I locked up so bad I seriously could not move my legs or hands that had curled up. And the students were like “just calm down”. I swear the pain was enough to make someone pass out because there was no anesthesia only a little pain killer which did nothing. But I stayed awake. For the next several days, I was only able to sleep during the day because that was when the nurses weren’t constantly checking in.
Having an asthma attack? Just stop it.
Ignore the comment, anxiety sucks. I hope you’re doing better now. 💗
@@Potterhorses I'm being satirical
@@boopling8206 ahh, It’s hard to tell someone’s tone of voice in text unfortunately. Doesn’t help that I have trouble recognizing it in general. Have a good day. :DD
@@Potterhorses aight you too.
I've spent many a days in the hospital. A few hospital staffs still recognize me if I happen to need a visit to radiology. Intermittent naps was all I knew for awhile
I was I hospital for over 2 months once. Eventually I was used to the blood tests at all hours because I was in hospital for pulmonary embolisms. I used to sleep through them. When vitals were checked I would sleep through that as well. The nurses were so used to me and me to them. They were wonderful ladies and I will never forget them
This is so ridiculously accurate ! I end up coming out of hospital feeling worse than when I went in! Exhausted, sore and sleep deprived!
That’s just how I feel on a daily basis 😃
Hospital: see you soon! 😈
@@stealthis hell no
I had to stay in the hospital for a few days and everytime I fell asleep my heart rate would slow down(cause ya know, sleep) and the heart monitor would start beeping until it reached a "normal" level again. It was borderline torture
@@ansnfbsknanssshshbsnsndnd5438 exactly that lol
YES! It was the pulse oximeter for me! I'd fall asleep and it would alarm. As soon as I woke up it would stop. It WAS torture! At shift change the new nurse got permission to turn off the alarm. It was a miserable night.
As a nurse, this drives me nuts. If it's known to the patient that he has a lower heart rate than normal, it will be lower when he sleeps. You change the paramaters on the alarm to beep at a lower level. And the beeping can also have volume adjustments.
@@deo3367 People just don't have critical thinking skills. Is 30 a really low pulse - yes... but it works for her. As a former athlete, my resting pulse was 46bpm. I would freak out anyone taking my vitals in a clinic.
@@deo3367 Thank you for being such a good advocate for that patient. Some people just have a different “normal” than everyone else, and if it’s consistent there’s nothing to worry about. I have POTS and my high heart rate really freaks out many professionals until they realize it’s my normal and there’s not much we can do about it. As long as I don’t sit or stand up too quickly and make it spike to 200 with a blood pressure drop, I’m fine, lol.
I spent most of my young adult and childhood years in and out of the hospitals till I was almost 16 I can sympathize with this totally.
I swear this is way too relatable, I often had to stay in the hospital for weeks on end growing up (not as often now but I still would) and very few nurses actually snuck in, they just opened the door, pressed buttons on the machine and then proceeded to make it beep and rattle the IV bag they were putting on, you never ACTUALLY slept at night