Longest you've been in hospital as a patient

4 nights when I broke my arm and dislocated my elbow a couple of years back. The biggest thing I noticed is how much better hospital stays are now we have smartphones and tablets to keep us amused. I remember being in hospital for a couple of nights about 10 years ago when I had a Nokia phone and there is only so much snake you can play!
 
11 days following a heart bypass is 1998. Just came out from a 10 day stint in coronary care on the 12th of this month after picking up an infection post CRT-D implant (clever pacemaker) on the 2nd. Gobsmacked when the hospital didn't close at the weekend which is what the government would have you believe..;):)

Big thanks to the Doc's, Nurses & HCA's at the Royal Stoke..:):):)
 
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Personally none but wife spent last 9 months of life in hospital. We got one month at home together right at the end.

Can't say it was pleasant. Although the level of service we received and the care was faultless. When it's proper bad, nhs does seem to step up.
 
When I was a toddler I was quarantined in hospital over two nights as I had a severe reaction to penicillin and they thought it was meningitis. No recollection of it though.

Only other time was the Friday before last, stayed overnight. Unfortunately it wasn't me that was admitted though, so that was a very long and sad night. :(
 
1972, one week for appendicitis.

In my job I have a lot of patients who have spent years in hospital.
One such patient has been in for 2.5 years :eek:
 
Em3bbs said:
there is only so much snake you can play!
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Oooh, Matron !

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Cant remember exactly. Around two weeks. It was after my big bowl operation in 2005. And then about the same length of time in 2006 when I got the reversal.
 
7 Days nasty compound fracture ,they said i would have to walk with a stick it was that bad but they did such a good job fixing it all back together that never happened can walk normally. can go hiking ect.. but my running days are over not that i did much of that anyway :p
 
About 5-6 days when I was young with hypovolemic shock which was caused by my underlying nephrotic syndrome.
Never been that ill again.
 
About 9 hours when I had shoulder surgery last month, apart from that I was once admitted after falling and splitting my head but left after 7 hours and that's it since I was born.
 
couple of nights as a child for eye surgery refused to use the bed pan thing so kept having to find my way blind to the toilet if my mum or nurse was not around, I still can not believe how lucky i was as a child to not seriously injure myself doing some of the stupid stuff i did .
 
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5-6 days. I had kidney pain so intense that I was crying like a little girl and ended up in A&E begging for some industrial strength pain relief. :p They kept me in for observation but couldn't really determine what the problem was.

Thankfully I've not had any occurrences since.
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This happened to me a few times when I was younger. Probably 4 stays in hospital in total (a week at a time). Kidneys are still a bit of a mystery to doctors it turns out!
 
2 months in 2012.

Rushed to local A&E with a ventricular tachycardia, transferred to the heart hospital for an ablation procedure, had an acute stroke straight after the procedure, intensive care for a week, then transferred to nearby stroke unit within a few days for five weeks rehab, then back to the heart hospital to have an ICD fitted. Released home.

Fun times. Only time I genuinely thought I was dying, twice. Once when I had the VT and again when I had the stroke.
 
4 days when i had my appendix out, should have only been 2 but i apparently had an abnormal temperature which they wanted to keep tabs on, all was fine though in the end
 
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