if the bullet don't get you, the needle will

[lizwilliams]

Woke up in the night and had to ask for painkillers in a voice which I thought was a polite whisper, but which brought the ward sister back 30 seconds later with a shot of morphine. Shouty patient was quiet but instead we had old lady:

OL:WHERE AM I?
NURSE: YOU'RE IN HOSPITAL,DEAR!
OL: I DIDN'T COME HERE TO BE EXPERIMENTED ON!
N: BUT YOU'VE ONLY HAD AN X-RAY!

and so on. She spent the night shouting for help in a very dramatic 'oh God, save me!' way. It is like being incarcerated with a very bad playwright.However, she is 90, blind and evidently a bit bonkers as well, so one must have some tolerance. She is now arguing with the doctor.

Because the drs sit near me, I now know we all have LJ-y handles. We are: Appendix, Other Appendix, ECG, and Gastric Person. I have one, too.

signed
Horse Girl

Comments

[autopope.livejournal.com]

(Just back from a weekend on Long Island ...)

Was alarmed to read of your dramatic plight. Luckily modern medicine had advanced some distance beyond cupping and leeching -- these days the leeches are sterile. Much sympathy, hope you get out of there soon (hospitals are Not My Favourite Places, even without bonkers bed-neighbours), and hope your spleen or whatever isn't too badly broken!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

thanks! it has not really been that dramatic, just painful and tedious. but i have got some short story work done so not total waste...