So I've been thinking about some of the questions you get asked in the hospital. Here were a couple I found funny
Nurse: Have you opened your bowels today?
Me: I would, but I can't find the bloody door, so I have to do it in a bag.
Nurse: And how's the pain today, Mr. Ellis?
Me: It bloody hurts.
Nurse to another patient,
Mr. Hunt, you haven't taken all your meds,
Me: It's okay; if they're good drugs, I'll take them for him.
Nurse: And how did you sleep, Mr. Ellis?
Me: I don't know; I can't remember.
And finally
Doc: Good morning, Mr. Ellis. How are you?
Me: I feel crook, but I guess that's why I'm here, eh?
It's no wonder the staff at Wyong Hospital all say, "Ah no, you're back!"
(Names changed, except mine, to protect the innocent, dopey, and mentally abused.)
Glad to hear you're feeling better and getting back to the posts that only Gus knows how to write.
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Yes, exactly!!!
Don't know how many times I was asked in the hospital, "Have you opened your bowels today?"... particularly strange when there was a huge ILEO stamped on the front of my chart! And heaven forbid you need a nurse when it's shift changeover time; just best be attending to yourself, hey!
Glad to see you see the funny side, mate!
Cheers!
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Hi gang,
I was thinking what a great resource this site has been for me since I found it. It would have been really helpful, but maybe a bit scary, to have found it before my ostomy, but that's water under the bridge. But I got thinking about it, and now I'm questioning why doctors and hospitals don't provide this site's contact info to any patient even considering an ostomy today. And how can we change that so potential ostomates can learn about the road ahead for them by getting on here and asking questions before the docs go chop-chop. How exactly do you get all hospitals to provide their patients specific information, like this website?
I just happened to find this site something like 4 years after my ostomy when I Googled "ostomy forum" or something like that. But I never found it during previous searches.....so I found this site pretty much by pure luck. We need to find a way to make this site available to new or soon-to-be ostomates......as that's when we really need to commiserate with fellow ostomates. Anybody have any thoughts on how we do this?
Thanks,
Bob
Yes, I have to say some staff do not obviously bother to check the notes.... On one of my numerous colonoscopies, my nurse said, 'Lie on your side, I need to give you an enema.' I looked at her and said, 'You won't get very far with that, so I suggest you read my notes!'
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Yeah, I have had the same - the funny thing was, my consultant bloody wrote me up for it! You'd have thought he would have remembered!
Good to see you back in the mix, bro
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and so cool that you are able to maintain your good humor through it all
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I wear a urostomy bag, and when I'm contacted to go for a check-up, they ask me to come with a comfortably full bladder. I wish. Good job I'm not oversensitive.
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