Curious about if people's significant others or hospital buddy's stayed in the room with them? what did your spouses do the nights you stayed in the hospital? not sure what to plan lol the hospital is a bit of a commute hour and a halfish

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Curious about if people's significant others or hospital buddy's stayed in the room with them? what did your spouses do the nights you stayed in the hospital? not sure what to plan lol the hospital is a bit of a commute hour and a halfish
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The hospital I was at was a good hour from our house. The hospital allowed 1 person to stay the night with you in your room. The nurses kept offering to bring my boyfriend a bed. He ended up leaving around 10pm or 11pm. I was in pretty bad shape after surgery and really out of it. I had someone in my room ever 1-2 hours throughout the night. I told him not to stay overnight because he would never get sleep with the various checks all night.

My wife stayed with me the two nights I was in the hospital after surgery. She slept on a reclining chair. After surgery, I was hooked up to IVs and other contraptions. As a result whenever I had to get up to walk every 2 hours, or go to use the restroom, I had to drag around a wheeled pole in which all this stuff hung on. So during the first night she helped in keeping me stable. Otherwise I might become entangled and fall down. She also helped in making sure too much wasn't showing on the back end of the hospital gown. But by the second night, most of the stuff was disconnected and it was significantly easier to move around. In the meantime, my wife would watch a little television, read magazines and just try and survive a few miserable days. So make sure that If your significant other stays with you that you make sure she/he brings along material to keep them entertained.

Also I did not use pain medicine after surgery. But many patients did. This caused them to be unstable when they walked. Having someone with you during your walks is an important function, until you are off the pain medicines.

I live really close to my hospital so my husband we home for showers and overnight. To be honest, I wanted him to go home and get a good nights sleep because otherwise he would have been grumpy and impossible to deal with (and I was already grumpy and impossible to deal with - we didn't need two of us!) The nurses were awesome about helping out when I got in and out of bed and then kept a close eye on me when I was walking. There were only 3 patients on the floor when I was there though. Had it been more crowded I might not have gotten that much attention. If we lived farther away we might have handled it differently - some of the other patients when I was there did have their spouses stay with them.

Thanks! For some reason this is weighing heavily on my mind. But this makes me feel better we both just don't know what to do and I work in a dang hospital it's different when it's you though

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