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Feeling lost :(
Hi, I've just been told I have breast cancer and now have to wait for hospital/surgeon to contact me for a pre op appointment. Just turned 51 and didn't see this coming as I suspect most don't. From w...
Oh, everyone who is going to hospital for anything.
write your name on every bit of clothing you take with you, phone number too if it will fit.
On my first op, the nurse in the morning grabbed some blankets from the chair in my room to take them to the laundry, gathering up my white waffle bathrobe at the same time.
I just managed to call out as she left the room and get it back.
On my second, recent op, the nurse bundled all the bedclothes up off the end of my bed while I was in the shower taking with it my brand new bed jacket that I had searched for months to find and was so happy with.
In my blurred post anaesthetic state I did not realise until a day later when I went to put it on and thought I must have left it at home, nope, it had gone with the linen to the laundry and I have not had it returned.
NOT HAPPY.
write your name on every bit of clothing you take with you, phone number too if it will fit.
On my first op, the nurse in the morning grabbed some blankets from the chair in my room to take them to the laundry, gathering up my white waffle bathrobe at the same time.
I just managed to call out as she left the room and get it back.
On my second, recent op, the nurse bundled all the bedclothes up off the end of my bed while I was in the shower taking with it my brand new bed jacket that I had searched for months to find and was so happy with.
In my blurred post anaesthetic state I did not realise until a day later when I went to put it on and thought I must have left it at home, nope, it had gone with the linen to the laundry and I have not had it returned.
NOT HAPPY.