Tora Ziyal has cancer
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So I got the official word today:
Once I get out of ICU, which should be the day after surgery, I can have both phone and iPad with me.
And, once I'm allowed to eat real food, yes, they have vegetarian meals.
Once I get out of ICU, which should be the day after surgery, I can have both phone and iPad with me.
And, once I'm allowed to eat real food, yes, they have vegetarian meals.
^Thank you, ElBurro. Love your avatar! But wondering how a donkey ended up w/ an owl avatar.
And more good news...
I had asked for various accommodations because of my PTSD -- a private room, permission for a friend to stay w/ me 24/7 for the first couple days, a tour ahead of time, etc. They're doing all of it. Plus they're going to assign only female staff to me, which I hadn't asked for.
Wow! And thank God.
I had asked for various accommodations because of my PTSD -- a private room, permission for a friend to stay w/ me 24/7 for the first couple days, a tour ahead of time, etc. They're doing all of it. Plus they're going to assign only female staff to me, which I hadn't asked for.
Wow! And thank God.
That all sounds great. They definitely know how to treat patients right. Just a few more days and the worst will be over. 
That is fantastic! Great to hear that they're really paying attention.
Bad AJ, very bad! 
It's the nurses and techs who will all be female. Two of the three surgeons are male.
Yeah, the schedule's buried somewhere upthread. Tuesday, March 15. Probably one night in ICU and another 6 or 7 in a regular room.
Once I hit that regular room, I can have my iPad.
It's the nurses and techs who will all be female. Two of the three surgeons are male.Yeah, the schedule's buried somewhere upthread. Tuesday, March 15. Probably one night in ICU and another 6 or 7 in a regular room.
Once I hit that regular room, I can have my iPad.
So we won't hear any news for a week? 
A few years ago, housemate nicknamed me Donkey Girl for no reason (I call him Monkey Boy) and it stuck. I just thought the owl picture was cute. I'm a total sucker for animals. Every time there's one on the t.v, I ask housemate if he'd mind if I got one as a pet. He claims that hippos, lions and grizzly bears aren't pets, but I think he's wrong!
Anyway, glad to hear they're taking care of you at the hospital
It sounds like they are really understanding of your needs and that can only help with your recovery 
Good morning and thanks, Everybody.
Let's try again: One night in ICU, then a regular room for a week. I can have my iPad in the regular room. So... depending on my energy, you may hear from me in a couple days.
Hospital rooms with wi-fi -- God, I love the 21st century! (Well, sometimes.)
It's the pain in the other end of the spine that's the problem.
So we won't hear any news for a week?
Let's try again: One night in ICU, then a regular room for a week. I can have my iPad in the regular room. So... depending on my energy, you may hear from me in a couple days.
Hospital rooms with wi-fi -- God, I love the 21st century! (Well, sometimes.)
Good to know they're really looking after you and meeting your needs! This sounds like it'll be less of a pain in the neck than it could have been.
It's the pain in the other end of the spine that's the problem.
My understanding on the grapevine is that as an organisation they have an excellent risk-management team which has worked hard to pre-empt a lot of later medical litigation through encouraging a cultural of thinking ahead and implementing more or less cost-neutral measures like this. Very sensible.
Good luck!
^That's interesting, Holdfast. I hadn't thought about it as a risk-management issue. Except the risk to my mental health. But it makes sense.
But it makes sense.
Glad to hear things are looking so good. My thoughts and prayers will be with you.
^That's interesting, Holdfast. I hadn't thought about it as a risk-management issue. Except the risk to my mental health.
(emphasis mine) Well yes, that's the main thing of course!
It's just that with your psych history, and the likely grogginess/confusion many people experience in the immediate post-operative phase, it makes good sense to have all-female staff, and I would not be surprised if that logic ran through the back of someone's mind, esp. since you didn't raise it as an issue yourself. It doesn't really cost them much to do so (as many nursing staff are female anyway, so shift reorganisation would be minimal, if at all), and is good from both a clinical perspective and a medico-legal perspective. That joined-up contingency-planning/thinking is a mark of a good organisation looking after you.