So this is Monday and I dutifully appeared for rehap - wasting my time while they try to kill me. It was pretty much the usual hour and some while they moved me from torture machine to machine. And they wanted my wife to stick me again to get a blood sugar reading. OK. She was waiting in the lounge for lack of a better term.

I went and told her they wanted more blood which she happily took because she likes inflicting pain on me. So then she takes the little meter and goes to talk to the head nurse. Me, I sat there for an extended time while she yacked and yacked. But I was tired and decided I needed a nap. So I took my jacket, wadded it up like a pillow, found a suitable place on the floor and checked out.

After a while I was awakened by a nurse who screamed because I was trying to sleep. She asked if I was ok. I told her I was taking a nap. Seemed obvious to me, but I wasn't aware that rest is forbidden in a hospital zone.

"They fuck you at the drive-thru, OK?... and they never let you sleep in the hospital!!!"

-Leo Getz

Lol I think she was worried you were going to croak on her watch. It means extra paperwork.

Next time leave a note on your forehead.

"Do NOT resuscitate DISTURB!

Take one of the hotel door signs, and bring it with you for your visits. Should fit over your ear, LOL.

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I wasn't aware that rest is forbidden in a hospital zone.

That's why they wake you up five times a night to stick you with things.

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Originally posted by Modern Day Savage:
Next time leave a note on your forehead.

"Do NOT resuscitate DISTURB!

Or, RESTing IN PEACE.

Yeah, they go me, too. Waiting on the birth of a grandson. They kept checking to see if I was dead. I finally told them dead people don't fucking snore.

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Originally posted by Fredward:
<snip> I finally told them dead people don't fucking snore.

LOL

You have to love hospitals, you get put in and told to rest and they come in every hour and wake you up.

I often hoped to get Nurse Ratched on a traffic stop. A DUI with a blood draw would have been perfect.

Did you take a bunch of gun rugs and make a pallet like you do at the gunshow?

Reminds me of that scene in Patton where he walks in after fussing at some disheveled GIs and trips over a man on the floor. Asks him what the hell are you doing on the floor, sleeping sir! Well, get back to it, your the only SOB that knows what he’s doing here.

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Originally posted by doublesharp:
like you do at the gunshow?

Anything 'gun' would probably scare them to death.

Two weeks ago we got caught in a lockdown on Friday. Seems some sorry SOB decided to off himself. So they had the bad guy in the ER with his car right outside. But the locals, in all their wisdom, locked the entire hospital down for hours. Power hungry.

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That's why they wake you up five times a night to stick you with things.

Even better when they wake you from a deep sleep to give you a sleeping pill. Yep, welcome to military medicine.

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Originally posted by NavyAgShooter:

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That's why they wake you up five times a night to stick you with things.

Even better when they wake you from a deep sleep to give you a sleeping pill. Yep, welcome to military medicine.

This doesn't just occur in military medicine, it's universal!

Get well soon, Dick and get outta there. Being hospitalized sucks.

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
Lol I think she was worried you were going to croak on her watch. It means extra paperwork.

Read OP to wife (retired RN, nursing home). I asked her about paper work. Her comment was it was less paper work when someone died that when they fell down.