Longest you've been in hospital as a patient

A few months just after I was born for a few needed heart ops. Since then I've been in for 2-3 weeks at a time for various heart and back operations.

I don't actually mind being in hospital. I'm pretty relaxed when I'm there and tend to get on well with the nurses anyway.

Last time was for this Linky
 
Five days having had a pulmonary embolism and DVT :( I nearly died. I saw too much death in that short time (in that ward) along with some very strange and mixed up people. I was placed next to an elderly gentlemen who died and suffocated on his own mucous. throughout the night and a younger lad across from me, who on waking mentioned it was a lovely morning before dying two hours later from alcohol. Awful.
 
I was in a couple years ago when I hit a car with my face at 30mph while cycling and had 3 hours of surgery on my face. Was there for 3 days plus day surgery a year later.

All the staff were simply amazing. Such a tough environment to be in for anyone let alone 12-14 hours on your feet dealing with very challenging people.

I'm going to be spending a lot of time in hospitals for the foreseeable future. Yesterday my 58 year old father was told he has 2 large masses in his head and one on his lungs. Quite obviously cancer. One of them in his head is causing confused and odd behaviour. He's a man of very few words anyway so it's difficult just sat there with little to say. Didn't think I'd need to be wheeling my own father around in a chair and taking him to the toilet at his age. Thankfully most of my family work in healthcare and are qualified nurses so we can do a lot for him. Outlook isn't very good, likely he may never come home again although there's no plan in place yet.

Hospitals are a difficult place. Over the last few days I've bumped into friends visiting others including family friends visint their dying mother. The staff really are something else in these places. Make hating my desk job seem so selfish.
 
3 weeks for a motorbike crash, broke my leg clean in half and lost several inches of bone on the tarmac. Luckily they drove a rod through the marrow and pinned it top and bottom. 6 months before the bone knitted together and I could put any weight on it.

The three weeks after a&e though were spent in a BUPA hospital which was nice with a wine list and private room. Hard times :)

4 days for a severe colitis flare. Just basically to drip me enough steroids to calm it down.
 
Over the course of a year, about 8 weeks. At one time, 4 weeks - with a 36 hour gap in the middle when they sent me home, but had to be rushed back the next day...
 
Two weeks for me. The worst bit was that I was stationed in Germany at RAF Laarbruch at the time and was stuck in a German civvy hospital (Karl Hansen clinic in Paderborn) with nobody to talk to. Originally went in for a op on my inner ear as I had a chronic ear infection but doing tests before my op they decided I couldn't suck enough air through my nostrils so had to have a op to rebore my nasal tubes. I have never known pain like I had when they pulled the dressings out of my nostrils a few days later. It was so bad I passed out.

A couple of days later I had the inner ear op where they discovered it was much worse than they thought and I was in theater for three and a half hours. My heraing and balance has been awful ever since and all because the staff at the RAF med centre wouldn't listen to me. They kept turning me away for complaining of severe headaches telling me I am wasting their time with just a headache. One day the headaches got even worse and I had blood and puss coming from my ear. They had to listen to me then but it was too late as the damage had been done. I got a good pension out of them for that and a back injury I sustained later that year but I would much rather be able to hear properly and do stuff that I used to be able to do before.

I am currently waiting to have a op on my neck to have a prolapsed disc removed and a titanium plate inserted so that's another hospital stay. Currently been waiting 15 months and still no date.
 
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About 6 weeks after getting run over and breaking my leg just below the hip / ball joint.
No operation, just on traction so had to lie on my back.
Got a bike for Xmas that year and couldn't go on it for 2 months.
FYI I was 13 at the time.
 
Just an overnighter to have a pilonidal sinus removed (only ever op I've had and can't admire the scar without a mirror). It was actually okay despite all the horror stories. Main problem is the boredom waiting for something to happen especially on the second day seemed to be ages before they came to take the canola out and discharge me.

Also impossible to sleep, despite the lingering anaesthetic - if I ever go in again will ask for a sedative or something. Guess if you're in more than one night, fatigue will kick in.
 
I was as good as begging to be let home after ten nights, after I was moved to a ward of elderly blokes on my tenth night, the poor sods were really making the staff earn their pay and I finally got some sleep at ~0530!

... If only I had not ignored the weather warnings that fateful morning and still tried to cycle commute.
 
Think I had a night or two after having my tonsils and adenoids removed at age 4. Then a further night, over 10 years ago, when I got circumcised and reacted badly to the anaesthetic after waking up. Should have left the same day.
 
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