Monday 29 March 2010

view from my room

thought i would set the scene and describe my room/views.
in my luxurious sideroom there is a locker (standard issue), an electric bed (luxury, actually acquired from the high dependency ward as when the nurse who transferred me saw that i was abut to get a bed with an air mattress, she decided to swap the beds as she had been looking for an air mattress for another patient in hdu!), a rather uncomfortable chair (fake black leather - seat splitting and showing the foam underneath), a bedside trolley and joy of joys an ensuite toilet!!!
this is especially cool as the majority of patients are male and one of the things i see a lot is the men in the neighbouring bay shuffling across the corridor to the unisex bathroom opposite. i'm happy to shower in there - not so happy to share the toilet...
other views down the corridor include the nurses station and the staff going about their business answering calls etc. they also store the trolley with the patients notes near my door, so i get to hear hushed conversations about patients. all very exciting but i don't know who they are!
i do have a window with a view to a wall with more windows, but if i get up and have a look i can see grass and a road (can't quite see the helipad). i am also above a+e and if there are several ambulances in place, i get to hear them arrive and unload their patients.
so there you have it. although siderooms are a luxury they can be a bit lonely as there is less interaction. hence my enjoyment of a slightly wider view of the world through the internet than the physical view from my room.

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