tee vee

[Kali]

I hate it. How do people function with the damn thing on all the time? I can see watching a show but how can you sit and talk to other human beings with the stupid thing flickering and jabbering in the same room.

I am in a personal hell. I want you people to know this.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Kali!

I know people like that too, and I have NO IDEA! I guess some folks just need the background chatter.

I'm sorry!

Maybe it will help you be motivated enough to hurry up and heal..............? As if motivation had anything to do with wellness! At least in your case!

[Kali]

2. argghh, I wish!

I wish there was something I could do to reduce my "sentence" = but this was imposed for a week regardless of my healing status.

the hospitalist was the only person who objected to my plan to stay at a hotel for a couple of weeks. she said she would not sign my discharge if I did it. had to go to a care facility to finish the IV antibiotics (WTF?) the surgeon was fine with it, the nursing staff, the home care folks, hell even the hotel - I called and asked! but she said no and I stupidly chose the nursing home close to HOME in Benson. It is an overly religious, cramped. stereotypical institution. the food sucks (credit to breakfast though - they have a pretty good breakfast - too bad it is not my favorite meal, sigh) clean enough and staff is OK but ugh, the religion everywhere and the tee vee always on in every space (including my shared room) - and I can't even go for a ride in the car until I get out of here. I am trapped!!!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. Kali, don't blame the hospitalist because you picked the wrong facility ...

sounds like she was the smartest person in the room

Get Better Soon

Love ya!

[Kali]

7. well, to be local there wasn't any other choice

and I was trying to make it so the squids and husband wouldn't have to drive 69 miles to visit. this is all there is within 25 - 30 miles of home. Also I didn't really have any time to research places in Tucson as she made this call after everything else was already in the works, the day before release. In fact she had made the order to change up the antibiotic to what the home care people preferred to use while I was going to be in the hotel. when I got here I was switched back to what TMC was using.

she also sent someone else's prescription with me in my discharge papers and ordered a cardio diet for here, though I do not need one, nor was I one at TMC. she also left out one of the pain meds so I had to do the woundvac instlall yesterday with only a Vicodin. I remain unconvinced of her smarts.

I do respect your opinion and it played a roll in my acceptance of this. BUT that doesn't mean I ain't going to whine about it.

[PasadenaTrudy]

19. Earplugs

That's how I survive TV land....

[Wait Wut]

4. Awwww...come on!

I honestly don't care that tv is making you crazy. All I care about is that you're getting better (and have kept your attitude...no more comment on that ).

Get better and keep us up to date on the soaps.

[Kali]

8. soaps? I wish

all day it is some western channel with reruns of Bonanza, tnen a few hours of cooking shows (like I need reminding of how shitty the food is) then news - boring days old crap on mainstream news channels. you know, the stuff I read here 3 days ago. and yes I am grateful it isn't fox, but still they sit and visit while all this chatter is going on - how can they stand it? the husband comes to visit me and he starts talking about whatever is showing on the teevee!1!!

[Ron Obvious]

5. Commiserations...

Re: TV, all I can say is, mega-dittos (how do you spell that, anyway?).

I can't stand it. I hate restaurants that have them on and since I have no immunity to it, my eyes keep getting drawn to the screen. I hate it. I know people who turn the TV on when they wake up and even watch it in bed at night. I'd go mental if I had to live like that.

Silence: It's a wonderful thing to those of us who are not afraid to be alone with our thoughts.

[Kali]

9. I am convinced it is 90 percent of what is wrong with people.

I feel less intelligent any time I get trapped watching it. and commercials make me feel like I have been drugged.

[LiberalElite]

17. I crave silence. nt

[Kaleva]

6. I am bothered by people who have the radio on all the time.

[Kali]

10. talk or music?

I do tend to leave the tunes on all day, but not at a high volume. rt wing talk radio is

[Jenoch]

11. Get a radio and some earbuds.

[Kali]

12. I am streaming the station I usually listen to

hate things in/on my ears but somebody is supposed to pick up some kind headphones tomorrow.

[Jenoch]

13. I hope it helps.

It sounds to me that you are going stir crazy.

My mother was in a nursing home at the end of her life. She got ill and died in a nearby hospital. A month later my father had a knee replaced. He needed short term care and rehab on the new knee. He went to the same facility my mother had been in and he got the same room she was in for her first two weeks she was there. When I first went there to see him, some of the staff looked at me sort of strange wondering why I was there. (I was there everyday for the three months my mom was a resident.) i told them I was visiting my father and their face went ashen until I told them it was because of knee replacement rehab. (Six years later my 80+ year old father is doing well.)

[Kali]

14. the same room?

that must have been kind of strange.

yeah I am going a little stir crazy. I am not easily bored, especially with the internets, but I have been trapped indoors for almost two weeks now and the constant tee vee noise is starting to drive me bonkers.

not a huge deal, bt pretty "mosquito-like" if you know what I mean.

[Jenoch]

15. It was the same room

in the short-term, rehab wing. We were hoping my mother would regain her strength to go back home, but she did not. She was moved to a long-term room. Thankfully, they were both singles.

Interestingly enough, my aunt, my dad's SIL, ended up in the same, long term room 18 months after my mother left it. Interestingly, my aunt introduced my mother to my father in 1957. They were school teachers in adjacent rooms and married brothers.

[Kaleva]

20. Both

I'm fine with listening to music if I'm doing nothing else but kicking back and relaxing but if I'm out and about doing things, I find it to be a distraction and I'd rather have the radio off.

[LiberalElite]

16. I feel your pain (really) -

To me, if the tv's on you watch it and shut up. A very good friend couldn't stand silence, so she always had either the radio or tv (or both!) on. She had tvs in three rooms. She went to sleep with the tv on. I crave silence and thought it was sad she couldn't appreciate the peace & quiet where she lived.

P.S. I LOVE the mute button on the remote!

[fizzgig]

18. it's background noise for me

there isn't much out there that's worth sitting down and shutting up for, imo. if it's actually worth watching, i will pay attention, but that doesn't happen often.

however, you do not bother me during the three following:

1) battlestar galactica
2) denver bronco game
3) top chef