What's your longest hospital stay?

gustavo

Mine is 2 years and counting for suffering a severe spinal injury

uch

3 weeks with cute nurses

And can I say that Nurses are the most undervalued resource in our country

Samsgirl

Ok, that beats my two weeks!!

Junkyard Tom

gustavo wrote: »

Mine is 2 years and counting for suffering a severe spinal injury

How did that happen?

Stheno

Bout three weeks

Eaglebridie 32

2 nights, 28 years ago!, fingers crossed😇

Filmer Paradise

1 week. Appendix operation.

I was 9 at the time & there was no space in the children's ward, so I was in with the men.

Ashtrays beside every bed. I learned how to play cards & there was a new series called the 'Incredible Hulk' starring Bill Bixby showing in the single telly on the ward.

A formative experiance for a young lad.

Menas

I am lucky enough never to have spent more than a few hours in a hospital since I was born.
I absolutely hate hospitals...dunno why...but hate been in them.

Negative_G

gustavo wrote: »

Mine is 2 years and counting for suffering a severe spinal injury

I wish you all the best on your road to recovery

Filmer Paradise

Menas wrote: »

I am lucky enough never to have spent more than a few hours in a hospital since I was born.
I absolutely hate hospitals...dunno why...but hate been in them.

Ah Jeezus. I don't get that at all.

I'd love to have a minor accident at work.

Everything paid for & a chance for a bit of a rest.

Still. Having your health is the most important thing you can have.

Too many of us take it for granted.

Zaph

Quite a few one week stays, but thankfully once it gets to the week mark they always seem to turf me out.

Vex Willems

gustavo wrote: »

Mine is 2 years and counting for suffering a severe spinal injury

Don't know you but guessing your the same poster from foot.ie I wish you the best in your recovery, that's an awful long time, how do you pass the time?

To answer your question, think about 2 weeks when I was 2, so that doesn't really count as I can only barley remember it.

Menas

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Ah Jeezus. I don't get that at all.

I'd love to have a minor accident at work.

Everything paid for & a chance for a bit of a rest.

Still. Having your health is the most important thing you can have.

Too many of us take it for granted.

I suppose hospitals to me mean visiting someone who is sick or about to die. Have held two corpses on their hospital bed and maybe that feeds my allergy.

Easca Peasca

Never had to stay over night thankfully. Happy to say my longest was 6-ish hours having when I had work done on cartilage in my knee.

Best wishes for your recovery.

The Backwards Man

Two hours in A&E. Some eejit of a doctor thought I had gangrene and wanted to amputate my arm at the elbow. I said I must go to the toilet and hightailed it out of there. That was fifteen or sixteen years ago, still have all my limbs.

kkhornet

3 weeks, after I got a chunk of glass in my eye and nearly lost the eye completely. Scary auld time. Not quiet 3 years though

Lady is a tramp

I was admitted tonight and it could be a long stint. Hopefully not.

I've had a few other admissions for a few weeks at a time. All psychiatric (same as this time.)

Feel kinda bad though being in a hospital for that when you're in there so long for "real" reasons. (OK I know mental health is important, but you know what I mean.)

All the best with your recovery. Any idea when you'll get out?

Filmer Paradise

Menas wrote: »

I suppose hospitals to me mean visiting someone who is sick or about to die. Have held two corpses on their hospital bed and maybe that feeds my allergy.

Yeah. That happened for me later on in life.

I'm not really religious but seeing someone close to you die is as close to a spiritual experience as I have seen so far.

Filmer Paradise

Lady is a tramp wrote: »

I was admitted tonight and it could be a long stint. Hopefully not.

I've had a few other admissions for a few weeks at a time. All psychiatric (same as this time.)

Feel kinda bad though being in a hospital for that when you're in there so long for "real" reasons. (OK I know mental health is important, but you know what I mean.)

All the best with your recovery. Any idea when you'll get out?

For a big chunk of my childhood one of my parents was in psychiatric care.

It is a 'real' reason to receive care. Just the same way you would receive care for a broken leg.

Hope you have a speedy recovery.:)

trixychic

I don't know if this counts...

5 days in hospital just before my son was born. (Thought they would induce me)
Then a 3 day break at home... waters went.
Another 5 days in hospital... So 5 to 10 days during the birth of my first. Ha ha. He was a cheeky one.

gustavo

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

How did that happen?

playing 5 a side, innocuous stuff, thankfully no-one else involved

Pink Fairy

2 weeks for a ruptured appendix.... And to add insult to injury, I had to shake hands with Charlie Haughey when he came around for his photo op

Junkyard Tom

gustavo wrote: »

playing 5 a side, innocuous stuff, thankfully no-one else involved

Wow! Play a bit of 5-a-side myself and would never think something so serious could happen. Best of luck with the recovery.

Edit: Longest I've spent in hospital was about a week waiting for surgery. When I saw what the A&E staff were coping with I felt no compulsion to complain.

PandaPoo

I spent 3 months (3 months old to 6 months old) in hospital as a baby, I had all sorts of injuries and then ten days in with my son when he had a stroke, that's it i think

Can't believe you're in there two years op, fingers crossed you won't be in much longer!

Badly Drunk Boy

Last June, I stayed overnight in hospital for the first time (at the age of 42) for 5 nights. After loads of tests, the only conclusion they came to was what I'd told them at the very start: there was nothing wrong with me except for a pulled muscle in my chest.

embee

was in Beaumont Hospital for 10 weeks before Christmas. I have MS and it got very severe so I was hospitalised and had to relearn walking. I am now at the beginning of a 5-6 week stint in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. Craic galore.

Canis Lupus

gustavo wrote: »

Mine is 2 years and counting for suffering a severe spinal injury

Hold on. Two years and counting? Pardon the pun but unbroken? What actually happened to you and why are you in hospital for so long? What is your day to day life like?


EDIT: Mine was 10 days for an infection when I had no immune system during chemo.

One More Toy

50 days in an isolation clean room

Lady is a tramp

One More Toy wrote: »

50 days in an isolation clean room

Ooh I spent a lot of time in one of those when my dad was getting treatment there. Hated the place!

La.de.da

5 days had pneumonia.

Endless day patient stays for minor procedures.
A while attending as a day patient to a mental health clinic.

Edit. Best wishes for recovery OP

TG1

2 years, wow... And I complained after 2.5 weeks recently.

That's my longest stint, I was in for breaking my pelvis in a few places. My horse was falling and needed somewhere soft to land.

I was cracking up after 2.5 weeks. Best wishes op, I can't imagine what you're going through.

Stigura

Six weeks, as I recall? But, I managed to make minor medical history in that time.

None of my doing. I just got myself sick. Any fool could manage that. Doesn't take a lot.

Annie. I'm sure that was her name. The night duty Nurse at the time. And that it was her who found me. Uttered " Jesus Christ!!! ". And reappeared with buckets of iced water. Said; " I'm just gonna give ye a bath, love. "

Annie; Bless you. I love you. You'll be long dead now. You were past middle age. I was teenage. But, you single handedly saved my fukcing life, that night. You brought that fever down.

They called Me " A Walking Miracle ".

No, love. You ~ and all the Angels like ye ~ are Walking Miracles.

Thankyou.

Thankyou all.

Vodkat

I was discharged almost 5 weeks ago after a two week stay in ICU, there's a gorgeous 7 week old sleeping on my chest as I write this. I developed a rare life threatening condition immediately after my baby's birth and came within hours of death. I'm a nurse myself and it was one of the greatest insights I've ever had. I hope that I will be far more empathetic to the patients I nurse in future! I know this is AH but on a serious note get well soon to all the posters who are still inpatients!

mansize

3 weeks after an endoscopic third ventriculostomy

RobertKK

Thankfully since I was born, I never had to use the hospital for anything, and long may that continue, please God.

jdee99

when i was 18 i had four months in hospital three months of which was spent in spinal traction - wasn't allowed out of bed once. no tv either!

hairyslug

Jesus, the 2 years kinda craps all over my week.

I don't remember much of my stay but I do know I enjoyed it, Paulo Tullio was in the bed next to me and he was a pleasure to talk to.

Adyx

Never apart from being born in one. Never been seriously sick or injured apart from destroying the left side of my face and left shoulder with boiling water when I was five. Still didn't go to hospital, I was a hard-bastard 5 year old. Worked out in the end, I've only a tiny scar on my shoulder to show for it. I do realise I'm tempting fate, but I don't believe in fate so it's okay.

Graces7

Shortest was two years ago when I fell on the wood pile and shattered my wrist. Finally had to get help 24 hrs later and was admitted for emergency surgery. The wrist part was fine but I developed the migraine from hell and they had no idea what to do. Offering 2 paracetamol by mouth to someone throwing up every few minutes.. and the agony, ..finally one wonderful nurse organised morphine and I discharged myself.. Oh and it was a MIXED WARD .. sheesh .. The taxi driver could not believe I was going home so soon and I spared him the details.. :eek:Oh had to stop on the drive home to throw up; had a sick bag ready, He wanted me to dump the plastic bag IN THE HEDGE. REALLY!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Longest or shortest??


Longest was about 3hours.

Never had to be admitted. Touch wood.

CarrickMcJoe

4 weeks with a broken leg in 82. They don't do broken bones like that anymore..

failinis

My first 2 months were on life support then another 1 month in an incubator, a few weeks outside incubator and then home (3months a few weeks). I was a rather Premature baby.

22 hours in AnE with kidney stones last December.

Was a great experience, a real eye opener. Luckily my condition, while incredibly painful, was not acute...once I was hooked up to a painkilling drip I was able to take it all in. Great staff, but realised that everything takes at least twice as long as they tell you ie. a doctor will see you in 15 mins means a doctor may see you in an hour, your scan will be in 2 hours means your scan will be in half a day.

January

1 week back when I was in 6th class for a broken leg, the needed to operate on it but emergencies kept coming in so I kept being cancelled. Fasting all day until about 10pm at night. My dad got me McDonalds once the fast was broken.

My daughter was in for 6 days for open heart surgery. Tough cookie that one.

Beasty

Had 4 back (disc) operations between 1994 and 2002. First one I was in for 6 days, 3nd 5 days, 3rd 4 and 4th 3..Worked similarly with time off work 6 weeks initially down to just over 3 with the final one although t he procedure was pretty much the same (albeit on 2 different discs) each time

Throughout my life I've probably had a dozen trips to hospital involving overnight stays which must total over 40 days.

fleet_admiral

8 days with a bad bout of cellulitis in 2013

Hannibelle Smeeeth

Jees I can't imagine how some of you have lasted for so long in hospital. I was 2 weeks in hosp after both my sons were born. My body did not react well to child birth and I nearly lost my mind!

January

Hannibelle Smeeeth wrote: »

Jees I can't imagine how some of you have lasted for so long in hospital. I was 2 weeks in hosp after both my sons were born. My body did not react well to child birth and I nearly lost my mind!

Stop I nearly lost my mind after 3 days in hospital after my last son was born. I just wanted to get home to my other kids. I was sat crying on my bed cos I missed them and the midwife came over and was like 'we can keep you an extra day if you like' eh get the boat let me out of this hospital now.

Graces7

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Last June, I stayed overnight in hospital for the first time (at the age of 42) for 5 nights. After loads of tests, the only conclusion they came to was what I'd told them at the very start: there was nothing wrong with me except for a pulled muscle in my chest.

I know the feeling. Was admitted a while ago as I was throwing up so hard with a migraine I was bleeding. After it stopped, they wanted me to stay in for a gastroscopy and were miffed when I said no I would come back as an outpatient for that. Made me sign all kinds of paperwork.. when the appointment came I cancelled as it was just the migraine and had not recurred.

rainbow kirby

Never been in for more than a few hours at a time - probably the longest was 6 hours for tests at Vincents after I fainted while running about 6 years ago. Baby due in 4 weeks though so this will change soon!

wijam

Also in the boat of no overnights, longest was a few hours for eye tests, after getting checked out at an optician, referred to my GP and then to the hospital, and nothing came of the tests, seemed to be a minor issue that cleared itself up

Not the biggest fan of hospitals either, mainly due to deathes in the family, and have to say, a lot of respect for the doctors and nurses, a tough job