<p>Happy that most hospitals now have free Wi-Fifi.
I’m into 4th hour in same day surgery family waiting room…torture.
very crowded, uncomfortable seats, loud TV’s everywhere.</p>
<p>Saving grace, I can pass the time catching up on CC!</p>
<p>Musicmom, hope all is well!</p>
<p>Free wifi? That’s like almost enough to get sick!</p>
<p>Don’t forget the cafeteria food.</p>
<p>When I was a kid, I’d go on Saturdays with my dad to look at x-ray films and stuff. The hospitals - both Detroit Memorial and Receiving, which were across a small street - would be stifling hot outside the relatively few a/c areas. I vividly remember putting my money in a vending machine outside the Receiving ER for a Hershey Bar. It came out completely melted, a pile of goop contained only by the wrapper.</p>
<p>Hope every thing goes well.
Hospitals have really improved their food however. I was admitted in May & I had great food that I could order at any time. I was so impressed. They even had espresso & not Starbucks!
My H tells me that the cafeteria was equally good.</p>
<p>Thanks , I knew I could count on my CC friends to keep me company!</p>
<p>It’s really a strange day for me. Son age 27, finally got to same day surgery for his badly herniated lumbar disc. He injured it THREE YEARS ago, but with school in another state and hoping that meds and injections and PT would suffice, it went on too long.</p>
<p>Weird part for me is that he’s employed (YAY), and on his own insurance that neither he nor I really understand yet. Just caused some anxiety navigating the network stuff.
Mostly weird because it is at a hospital that’s not “mine”, the one I work at.
The one he was born at the one he’s had everything until just today.</p>
<p>Anyway, the staff and hospital appear first rate. But MAN, what a long day this same day surgery can be!</p>
<p>Here’s hoping it goes well, musicmom. Back surgery: Yikes! Will your son have to do rehab? That can be another sticky wicket insurance-wise, especially if you don’t really know the insurance plan that well.</p>
<p>So sorry, musicmom --waiting for someone to come out of surgery is so draining!</p>
<p>There was no wifi years ago when H was having cancer surgery at Sloan Kettering. I remember walking around the gift shop and amusing myself by trying to come up with t-shirt slogans: “My boyfriend got cancer, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” and “Sometimes, when God closes a door, He doubles your available closet space.”</p>
<p>Sometimes when things are bad, you just have to find a way to laugh.</p>
<p>Hope he comes through ok. He’ll be happy to see you.</p>
<p>are youstill waiting for son’s surgery to be over? Hope all goes well.</p>
<p>no wifi in my hospital, otherwise I will look up cc through my iphone while I was being operated upon! :)</p>
<p>Hope all goes well.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your good wishes.
And they worked! Son was released from minor same day micro-discectomy a scant 14 hours after registration. </p>
<p>All went as expected. He is taking Percocet so pain is managed. Mostly, he wanted FOOD!
God bless those young adult sons!</p>
<p>Classic2015- oh my , cancer surgery? Hope your DH recovered. Makes me a bit embarrassed to be whining about minor surgery.</p>
<p>Kataliamom- yes to PT but not for several weeks. Enough time to figure out the insurance part.</p>
<p>Sons insurance is incredible. Not sure what the premiums are out of his pocket, but as long as he stays in network he has NO compacts or deductibles!<br>
He was given a choice of plans at hire. He says he picked “what everyone told him to” at work. MmmmmmHmmmm, seems like he’s got the Cadillac plan.
It is handy right at this moment I admit.</p>
<p>Thanks again all. I’m off to bed.</p>
<p>Rest well, music mom. No worries about my H – it’s long over (diagnosed in '96 with Stage IV but fine since then). </p>
<p>re: percoset – I want to marry Percoset. Got it after my C-section. It’s a beautiful thing. </p>
<p>Glad he’s hungry. Proof of life for young men. By tomorrow, it will all be forgotten.</p>
<p>S2 a day after arthroscopic knee surgery: “Mommy, Percocet is awesome.”</p>
<p>I had a chunk of metal cut out of my foot when I was maybe 16. They gave me 5mg Valium. I turned on the TV and lay on the floor downstairs. I looked at my foot. Mr. Rogers came on but I was too out of it to change the channel. He brought out a basinet and filled it with water and then gently put 2 or 3 ducklings in it. He talked while the ducklings swam around. It was almost the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>lergnom, HA!</p>