If you have ever been in the hospital, what was the worst part?
by 
Zack Be Gone - All Hail Firebrand.
ANSWERS: 71
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Yup, worst part was not knowing what was wrong.
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the smell and the major vertigo i had.
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Hospitals suck yo...
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The nurses take FOREVER to get to you. If you ask for something, allow them a few hours before they get back to you!
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Yes. When I was younger, the smell was the worst part, but most hospitals don't smell like that anymore. Now that I'm older, the worst part is waiting to find out what's wrong.
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When I get these feelings that I'm not at a hospital with all these knifes and scissors and "people" covering their faces! LOL
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I have to deal with everything. I work at a hospital and it all sucks.
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My worst hospital experience was when I had my first death. I was fresh out of school, just got a job in the lab and was sent to do some blood tests on a three year old boy while they were resuscitating him. It was hard but it was also the moment I realized I had what it took to be professional at my job.
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Yep... A number of times... and worst part... a couple of things: 1) Passing out because the doctor had ordered me on a 1500-1800 calorie diet and my blood sugars were low. I was on a lift with my foot in a whirlpool when it happened. I felt it coming on, turned to see someone, said "I think I need some help here", and next thing I remember, they were trying to pick me up off the lift to a gurney. Gave me OJ, and BSs came back up fine. 2) Getting a PICC line. It's a SURGICAL procedure, but you're awake. The Dr puts a small slice in your upper arm (after lydacaine, but not enough!), and opens a vein, runs a 12"-18" catheter through there INTO (or just above, on me) your heart, for IV antibiotics. It stays for the course of the abs. The SLICE is NOT fun! (Have had it done three times I remember...) There's also the intermidable WAITING when they take you for xrays, PICC insertion, etc. Think I waited over 3 hours for a PICC once.
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When I was a little girl. The worst part for me was getting a shot.
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When I was six or seven years old I went into the hospital for about a week with a stomach ailment. What with my sparkling personality and all, I was a favorite with the nurses. One morning, one of them walked in with the largest needle I have ever seen, before or since. I must have turned a whiter shade of pale (thanks Procol Harum) because she stopped dead in her tracks, then followed my eyes to the needle in her hand. She said, with a laugh that this wasn't for me. She was just stopping in to say hello. Jeez lady!
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Noise, dirty bed, they only change it if you ask! I didn't know that...Crappy, tired nurses. Food sucks. I absolutely hate everything about hospitals, everything.
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yes recently i was admitted to a behavior health services unit because my aunt thought that i was suicidal... which i am not normally... and they forced me to take medication that would sedate me even though i asked over and over if they could just monitor me sober and see that i was just pissed off about paranormal activity... which of course they did not believe in
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Waking up from surgery-Not sure why you are there (maybe an OD is dripping in the back of your brain) due to the circumstances and you have no clue what has happened to you due to the anesthetic,then i was in a coma for 12 days, non-medically induced, yet there is no one to kinda greet ya and give ya the lowdown/whatsup if ya manage to come out of alive- it is -pretty scary!-no--- VERY FUCKING SCARY! Pardon the language but it was out of a horror movie! Scenario 2:They had to do a laminectomy/spinal decompression another time and I came to (conscious) during the surgery-i couldn't move, talk, anything yet I still felt ALL the pain of the procedures and their various scalpels, tools, sounds, imagine a root canal times 50000 etc. IT WAS HELL I don't blame them, it just happens-but god it was hell! I was truly scared .
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I was admitted to the hospital when I was seventeen years old. Last year. I was having really bad cramps and vomiting and body pain. They didnt know what was wrong with me so they did all these Xrays and then gave a the bullshit answer that I had a skeletal deformity and they tried to send me home but my mom had a bitch fit and they did more tests. Turned out i had a tumor the size of an orange that had grown on my ovary causing my ovary to collapse and begin to rot inside of me. The worst part was when they told I was going to have to have emergency surgery...by the same idiots who told me it was a skeletal deformity!
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saying goodbye to the hot nurse...
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Lying in bed for two weeks, not being able to eat a single thing. Nothing at all. Meanwhile my parents come visit me and bring in stuff like McDonald's to eat in front of me...agh, the heartless bastards!
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The entire experience giving birth to my son was pretty wretched :( I was undermedicated, then WAY over medicated, emergency surgery, excruciating recovery, inept nurses and to top it off there were blood spots on the ceiling in my room :(
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Getting sick from the anesthesia. I actually tolerate pain better than being nauseous. The surgery before last I was sick non-stop for at least 12 hours. That and the fact that you can never get any rest because a nurse always seems to wake you up just when you've finally gotten to sleep!
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Nothing, really. I've been in and out of the hospital many times, for many things, and it was all pretty lack luster.
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Not being able to smoke a cigarette.
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Being in the same building as death.
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Paying the bill when you discover that your insurance doesn't cover any of it!
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The period of time between the reason you are there and when you start feeling better.
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I can't decide if it was the guy snoring across the hall so loud he had everyone in the ward awake and 4 nurses trying to get him comfortable in a position he wouldn't snore, or the fact that when you finally did get to sleep the nurses had to come in and check your temp and blood pressure and tell you to take some pain pills...HELLO...I was asleep I'm obviously not in pain.
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The bill sucked big time.
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I've always been the one in the waiting rooms, and I can tell you those suck. I usually stick to befriending the people in there (my family is pretty friendly). I kind of like the hospital (my grandmother and mother worked there), but I'm sure that will change if I find myself in the hospital bed.
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The number of nurses at night..one night I had 4 different nurses..each of whom had to learn what my meds were and the frequency..it was very scary when at one point I had to stand my ground and insist that a nurse check her logs, my records and call my doctor because she was planning to do the wrong thing! That was the worst! If you don't know what your protocol is, you'd better find out fast otherwise you may be given the wrong meds in the wrong quantity at the wrong time! :)
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Trying to explain that no matter how long they persist I CANNOT use a bedpan!
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The constant noise and getting no rest. The lousy food and not being able to control my life or choices and the stupid non-information they feed you.
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The food, the hard bed and the noise.
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Being unable to leave.
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The smell.
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NO SMOKING
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Getting tablets up the ass. I had appendisightess!
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The two worst parts for me, was having a doctor pull my wife aside (like they don't think we can hear them five feet away) and telling her that I may have two days to live. That, and not being able to move around, I had to stay in bed.
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the coldness, and the odd and annoying questions about why i tried to kill myself.
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Waiting for something to happen
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What ever you do make sure you ask lots of questions. Sometime the staff are very busy and don't have time to give you all the information you should know. http://insurancetales.com/asking-questions-to-improve-health-care-quality/
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constantly being poked and proded.. and i know this isnt a bad thing in the privacy of my bedroom, but when they wake you up in the middle of the night with a huge needle.. its kinda annoying.
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When they tried to perform an autopsy on me;)
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the needles
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Two words. Liquid Charcoal. Appparently, I made an arch of puke in mid air. : ) Plus, in the psychiatric observation ward, my room (shared by two others) was right across from the nurses' office, and that damn stapler was LOUD!! Plus, every hour they had to sneak in the room and make sure we were sleeping, and they woke up up every time.
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waking up from a coma only to find that all my drs. were idiots and had misdiagnosed me... i was dying and they wouldn't admit negligence... eventually i punished one of them, got strapped to the bed and ha to lie there as they did test after test... what they thought was a broken leg and a pulled muscle actually turned out to be a broken leg and an aneurysm which had clotted, leading to an infarction. i asked them not to remove the leg, but to remove the clot. the sodium and potassium that washed back into my system sent me into cardiac arrest and killed me, always fun! it was then i decided to let them remove the damaged muscle... due to the extent of the muscle removed the mobility of the limb is severely compromised and due to the time delay in making the correct diagnosis i still experience sever chronic pain. not many people get to experiance the pain of muscle death
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i love hospitals. sometimes the smell of the food gets to me, especially the hospital i volunteered in. other than, i have nothing against hospitals. oh yea, one time i went to the top floor where the sick ppl are. it was the smell. i mean it didn't smell like anything, it just felt like it wasnt ventilated well enough. :-x
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The waiting room. It's just creepy.
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When they give you shots in the butt!
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the 8 and a half hour wait!!! when i cut my head open and dislocated my shoulder!!! Australian Hospitals are terrible for their hospital waiting... especially tassie
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Being there is the worst part..then you have all the sounds and the smells..I don't like the places myself..lol :)
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when being scrolled into the operating room ( really scary ) !!1
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Having to go home while they took my baby to the Children's Hospital NICU.
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Telling me that I had stopped dilating...again. 4 days of mostly active labor is hell on earth.
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All the worried looks of my sisters and parents. and the fact that I couldn't leave even though I always felt fine after I woke up. And the fact that it reminded me even more that I was different from the rest of my family.
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Gettin the bullet out - no anesthetic.
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First of all they diagnosed me wrongly and gave me an operation that I didn't need. Secondly, they nearly killed me because they were giving me a sleeping pill (I had never taken a sleeping pill in my life before) called Chloral Hydrate and I had a violent reaction to it and was lucky to survive. In an article I once read, 70 percent of people who go into hospital don't come out. My father who had a very slow growing cancer and heart disease would have survived much longer had he not gone into hospital. Not only did the operation leave him paralysed but they had to do a second operation due to infection which his body could not cope with. He suffered greatly and sometimes I wonder whether the pain was all worth it.
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Being on call for 40 hours straight! Fortunately, I've never been in the hospital as a patient.
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waking up after surgery not knowing what happend while I was out.
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coming home and finding out i caught the flu from being there lol.
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I had a kidney infection and a temperature of 104 and the nurse kept digging and digging in my hand for a vein. EEEW!
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Waiting in the examination room
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The nurses were horribly rude and had no compassion. I had a c-section and I hated being there.
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My broken hand.
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Penicillin twice a day for a month. Operation. Unable to walk or stand for 6 months. Take your pick. None of it was fun.
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THE BILL!!!!!!!
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Waiting for hours at the ER in pain before they would see me. Shatterd my elbow
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watching my dad lay there in pain after breaking his back,neck,legin 5 places,and a rib
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Waiting for the next dose of morphine...Seriously...
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the part where they forgot to do the anistesia
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Seeing all the interns watching be give birth
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Very beautiful nurse came in at sunrise to yank catheter out of my manhood
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The food! i dont know what it is even when they've brought a menu ooer :)
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