I have been biding my time before the barage of bodily assaults begin. I was meant to be having my Hickman line in today but after quite a bit 'moaning' it has been delayed until next Monday. That gives me exactly one week of extra swimming to get my lymph flowing. Apparently it is rather congested. I also got out, of my 'indoor' shed, my lymphosizer; which is one of those little trampolines. My aim is to bounce as much as I can. I run over to my iPod, put on a Cat Stevens song, and bounce. It's fun whilst the lymph juice dances around my body.
The only good thing to come out of this dis-ease so far, apart from me taking control of my own life, is that I was in the market for a brand spanking new iMac (you know, the computers that are so much better than Windows and their generic box counterparts could ever hope to be). Well, now I'm in the market for a MacBook Pro. This is so that whilst I am being drugged I can play, and maybe even do some work on the 1-inch thin most desirable laptop ever created. The only problem is that I will be on the adult ward at St. James' and while the children's ward gets internet, plasma TV, DVDs, every games console ever dreamed of, a pool table, table football, a sitting area, exciting books, coffee morning, pizza evening (great for the lymph NOT), etc. The adult ward gets, erm let me think, a second hand book box filled with Mills and Boone novels and possibly one of those horrible old TVs with 4 push buttons. Then there's Patientline. Don't get me started on the insult to humanity that is Patientline, I think it should be renamed 'Patient and Family Bankrupter'.
Oh, I just saw that this turned into a bit of a rant.
P.S. I'm not entirely sure what facilities the adult ward has but I'm not getting my hopes up.
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As a veteran of Jimmy's adult ward, here's my advice to you:
1) Ask for a side ward. They aren't always available but the nurses are generally sympathetic to requests from younger patients, and if you can get one you've got more privacy and control over your environment.
2) Spend as much time as possible in the teenage ward, which as you know is a much friendlier place to be. The nurses should have no problem with this as long as you tell them where you're going. (Otherwise they might think you've gone AWOL!)
3)Take your own computer/DVD player/iPod because, as you've mentioned, there aren't many facilities for adults.
4) They're supposed to be doing up one of the rooms to be more like ward 10 so if that happens things might be much improved!
Good luck with it and let us know how you get along.
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