What's your longest hospital stay?

gustavo · 21-02-2016 02:13AM #1

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

uch · 21-02-2016 02:18AM

3 weeks with cute nurses

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

Samsgirl · 21-02-2016 02:19AM

Ok, that beats my two weeks!!

Junkyard Tom · 21-02-2016 02:28AM

gustavo wrote: »

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

How did that happen?

Stheno · 21-02-2016 02:28AM

Bout three weeks

Eaglebridie 32 · 21-02-2016 02:31AM

2 nights, 28 years ago!, fingers crossed😇

Filmer Paradise · 21-02-2016 02:35AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:39AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:42AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:45AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:46AM

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

Vex Willems · 21-02-2016 02:46AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:49AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:52AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:55AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:57AM

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 · 21-02-2016 02:58AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:00AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:15AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:19AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:22AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

How did that happen?

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

Pink Fairy · 21-02-2016 03:26AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:26AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:38AM

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 · 21-02-2016 03:54AM

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 · 21-02-2016 04:07AM

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 · 21-02-2016 04:11AM

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 · 21-02-2016 04:31AM

50 days in an isolation clean room

Lady is a tramp · 21-02-2016 04:34AM

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 · 21-02-2016 04:42AM

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 · 21-02-2016 04:50AM

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.

What's your longest hospital stay?

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