How do you feel staying in hospitals?

I hate hospitals with a passion. I don't even like going to visit someone who is in there. But I truly hate being the one that is in the hospital. The food especially here in Canada is the worst. I don't know where you are from but the food here is disgusting. The treatment with some of the nurses isn't that great as well.

I only stayed in the hospital when I had my three children. It wasn't bad at all! But when my sister had her car wreck she had to stay in the hospital for a while. She had fractured her skull. She had blood on her pillowcase for a week! She constantly asked them to change it and they never did. We all finally complained enough that someone came in and changed it. So I guess it depends on why you are in the hospital.

I dont mind going to the hospital at all. I have spent much time there with the birth of all 4 of my kids and other surgeries that it really dosnt bother me at all. I agree with you that you are very well taken care of and well fed that there is really nothing to worry about.

I dont really care for hospitals. I have been to hospitals a few times with other people. and I have only been once for myself, when I was younger. It was miserable. I sat in the waiting room for over 4 hours before I ever got seen, then I waited four more hours before I could leave. So I would rather not go to the hospital ever again!

Hello, I have had a few surgeries over my life and have had to stay in hospitals quite alot although i was well looked after and my stay was long....I did crave to go home in the end, my experience hasnt put me off although i can understand why people feel uncomfortable about going there because its not a nice experience especially when your loved one is seriusly ill and all you can see around you is the ill people espescially one who are completly bed bound. I think unless you stay in one you will always have this dread about it. My partner too does not like them i guess through my experience thou!!

Hospitals don't bother me a bit, but neither do morgues or most other places people would rather not go.

I was there for 6 months, I think that is the most dreaded palce as far as I am concerned.

I stayed in a hospital for 1 week I had a minor operation.. I don't hate hospitals but I dont like the post operation process. It's really hurts...

I HATE going to the hospital and by God’s grace I have never had to visit or stay in one till now except for childbirth. I had to stay in the hospital for two weeks then, one week prior to the birth as I suddenly developed high fever and then during and after the childbirth as I had opted for a C-section. The food was OK, quite bland but tasty by hospital standards, it was clean too being a maternity hospital only but even then it definitely was not home. No privacy, bathrooms to be shared, people walking in and out at all times and of course you cant roam about or listen to the radio or watch TV. My hubby used to get me the newspaper every morning and that was some relief. I did not enjoy my stay and do not intend going back as long as I can help it.

Since Oct.2007 I have been in and out of hospitals. And even through I have had very nice nurses, I have to say I hate hospitals! I feel weak,lonely,scared and sick. They are cold and scary.If I don't have a roommate I keep the light on all night. I am waiting for the hospital to call me to set up an appointent for me to be admitted, now I don't know when this will happen but right now I feel queezy and anious about it. I wish I wouldn't have to go but I have no choice.

I'm fine with the bed, the food, and the medical staff. What I find inconvenient is using the bathroom, difficulty moving around with an IV line, and feeling lazy just laying on the bed and watching TV all day. LOL

If possible, I will avoid staying in a hospital. I am always doubtful about the sincerity of hospital staff. Many hospitals I have seen are so bad that if a healthy person goes and stays for one day he/she will fall ill.

i hd my operation once and seveeral procedures done with me.i hate the needles but im afraid to die .i hd to go for it.now im used to going to the hospitals here and there.whenever i feel alittle bit feverish and just stomach pain ..i go for check up.and the doctor always says "no ur not sick".my friends laugh..they say hospital is one of my favorite hobbies...he he

My hubby is the same!!..he finds hospital visits very stressful1..the smell,the surroundings,the enforced conversation on visits. As for me I dont mind too much...im not too keeen at all on being a patient though!!!

Well I don't mind the food at the hospitals and over all if it's quite I like it. However the last time I was in they kept turning on lights when they didn't need to and never turned them off, they kept changing my room at 11pm at night for three nights in a row, and the last room mate I had her IV would go off every two minutes and wouldn't stop until the nurse came in and reset it. That went on for over a day and I finally complained to the DON about that and other problems I had with the staff. I don't like visiting people in the hospital at all but being a patient doesn't scare me or anything. Just wish some of the staff would be more courteous to the patients.

i was in for four days last december due to an infection and it was sooooo boring! there is nothing to do there...thankfully i like to read and got to watch tv a couple of times...i would have gone nuts if i had to stay longer! hospitals dont bother me...last fall my dad was in for 71 days and we went to visit him almost every day!

The last time I was in hospital was last July, when I had to have a hysterectomy. I was so scared, I did not know what to expect, how long I was going to be in for, away from my children for. I was frightened in case I did not wake up from the anaesthetic or I had complications, I was petrified of the bugs that seem to be rife in hospitals. So I was a bag of nerves, but it turned out to be ok, I had my op and I woke up briefly after and then slept solid for about 36 hours, the only problem I had was my blood pressure went that low the nurses were quite worried about me and I ended up staying in a couple of days longer than I had hoped. I was on a ward with about 4 other women who were a lot older than me and so were really nice to me, then this other thing come in, she was about my age and she kept whinging about the pain she was in, to the point that she was literally screaming for 9 hours non stop, she wanted pain medication every half hour and the nurses knew she was faking and would not give it to her. She just created such a noise crying and disturbing all the other patients. She kept telling the nurses she could not eat because of the pain, and she would refuse the meals, but get this she was stuffing her face with sandwiches, crisps, chocolate and pop when they were not looking! Anyway another woman was brought into the ward and she had tests and xrays done on her and I was really upset when I heard the doctor telling her and her family that she had cancer, and that it was terminal, they were talking months left to live, it broke my heart. Well she had to have a little operation and after she was trying to get some sleep and there was this other woman bawling and crying over nothing. Well that was it I blew, I told her if she did not shut up I was going to throw her off the balcony, so she tried to say that we were all picking on her and she was so ill, and I went over to her I said ill, take a look at that woman over there, shes dying and you are carrying on over nothing, and pretending you cant eat, and I pulled all the food out of her cupboard and showed the nurses. I was fuming, the nurses never did a thing I think they thought it might do some good for someone to give her a telling off! Gosh I was only going to tell you about how I feel about hospitals, and look at all this!

God may be joking at me.I don't like going to hospital. But my major is hospital management. It means that I probably will go to work in hospital. It doesn;t matter, I go there to have my work but not for cute.

I'm not comfortable in hospitals, especially if I'm there for a loved-one.. can't take the idea that i'm entrusting their lives to those doctors who are capable still of committing mistakes..

When i was in college, I really like to experience getting hospitalized - lying on hospital beds, watching doctors and nurses checking my condition, and have those dextrose "thing" in my arms.(funny and crazy, huh!?) dont blame me, because, as far as i can remember, i have been hospitalized once, way back when i was a kid. Then the Lord hear my prayers, (= , i got hospitalized because of UTI. I had a very high fever, can't almost stand because of the pain in my back at the lower part of my waist.. in short, im really really sick. So, I got admitted to the nearest hospital, had dextrose "thing" in my arms, laid on hospital bed, and had doctors and nurses checked me every hour. Everything that i wanted was done. But in addition to that which i never expected were: the pain that i felt in injecting the needles for the dextrose because the nurse cant find my very small veins, losing consciousness as it was taken off from my arms because it was swelling for not putting it in the right way, seeing my blood as it went up to those tubes because the nurses didnt noticed that my dextrose bottle was empty, and having backpains for lying there for almost one week. Well, now, i would never ever wanted to be hospitalized.. never ever again.. and if i will, it would be in a hospital where im sure im safe. (,")