Comments on: Hospital Life

By: hammie

hammie — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:48:41 +0000

Pretentious-from-the-western-suburbs-but-trying-to-be-middle-class-bitch that I am, I find hospitals especially horrendous as of course, this is Ireland and our hospitals are shit.
So unless you are extremely wealthy and can go private you find yourself surrounded by people with one gold tooth and tracksuits as day wear and eastern european furs and in one memorable trip – actual spats.

They also call their bookies in inappropriate places at inappropriate times
Nurse “We are ready to take little Britney for her pre-med”
Spats wearing father “yeah I’ll have a granddington on Ebony Bess in the 9th”…..

Apart from the shite food, pissey tea, confusing signage and overcrowded waiting rooms with broken toys; there is the waiting!!! And the fact that the last time you were there people did things that hurt – Bratty doesn’t do hospitals so it is a universally horrendous experience for both of us.

But at least we did not have your awful worry.

I will tell you one funny story.
We were in for day surgery one December and during the pre-med Bratty relieved herself copiously all over my jeans so I had to go change into scrubs.

Bratty having returned from Theatre was resting peacefully when a Phillipina nurse ignored my instructions for “NO OBS” – removed the tape securing her monitor yoke from Bratty’s foot and woke her up.
All hell broke loose as Bratty decided she was ready to leave, drip and all and she began climbing up my back as I tried to get her to re-settle.

Enter 2 members of a popular (well C-list popular) boyband with a laundry trolley full of toys. “To brighten our Christmas in Hospital” .

To their credit they actually approached the crazy lady with the small brunette girl in a backless gown clawing at her head and attempted to give us a Barbie Drinking Flask (?) which Bratty flung back at them across the ward.

my love to you and your boy. xx

By: Moda

Moda — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:23:15 +0000

P.s. Tavi’s style really is fucking awful!

By: Moda

Moda — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:22:34 +0000

Shit Sister Wolf, I didn’t realise it had been so bad with your son. It’s great the surgery was succcessful. I know how much this stuff sucks badly. I’m in and out of hospitals with my daughter often – she has a dodgy kidney so what you said about hospital style is so true. It’s also hilarious – got to try to laugh during these times. Once your son is better – he’s getting better – he has great vibes heading his way from all around the world -so do you. You know we love you. Anyway, once Max is better you could burn the cardigan. I enjoy getting rid of clothes that I wore or associate with painful times.

I loved what Queen Michelle wrote. It’s beautiful. Queen Michelle, your mum saw you in all your pretty gear and I bet she was so amazingly proud of you. I was really proud of you and the way you wrote when your mum was so ill. You had and still retain such grace and strength. I think you’ll always have that, whether your in a track suit or not.

I love you blogging girls.

Keep up the awesomeness!
xxxxx

By: Queen Michelle

Queen Michelle — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:35:24 +0000

I had to watch my mum die a slow and painful death at hospital and every day, twice a day, I went to visit her and every day I made the effort with what I wore. She was being so brave and always made sure she had her best nightgown on, her hair brushed, so it seemed disrespectful of me to not do the same. She always loved seeing what I was wearing and when I took her in her wheelchair a wee wander around she always told all the nurses that I had a fashion blog and had been in magazines! She didn’t really know what a blog was, but she was proud that I dressed up and loved seeing me in my odd, inappropriate outfits. It provided a small escape for both of us for those few short hours a day.
Every time I put together my outfit for my visit all I kept thinking was it could be the last thing she sees me in so I wanted to be the pretty daughter she thought I was.
The irony is the night she died it was in the middle of the night and I had been in my bed so I ended dressed in a tracksuit.

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:10:35 +0000

Skye -Thanks, xo. If ONLY readers would do that!!!

arline – Thanks, xo. Tavi is not getting shit from me, though.

Joolzgirl – Thanks, xo. Fierce shoes, anyone?

Jools – Thanks, xo. I hope your shoulder is better! Yes, Lucky is annoying that way.

Sarah P – Thanks, xo. I have been berated for retaining my sense of humor but that’s just how I roll. I once started laughing when I thought I was having a heart attack. We need to think how you can win the dead cardigan.

WendyB- Wow, Yay me! Thank you!

andrea – Thanks, xo.I did put on lipstick in order not to scare him (at first.) Now, I do it because I have a little more time.

WCGB – Thanks, xo. I agree: You have to keep making sure they don’t kill your loved one.

Iheartfashion – Thanks, xo. This gift shop has an abundance of shit with rhinestone peace signs. Horrible.

Make Do – Thanks, xo. I was given a link to a video of Tavi today. You will really be traumatized, I’ll send it to you!

annemarie – That is the BEST IDEA EVER!

Ann – Thanks, xo. So true about priorities, I still have just the three.

Iron Chic – Thanks, xo. You have a good point about not looking like a slut. And yet, she is like a living incarnation of all that is sickening and wrong about devotion to the wrong things.

Susan – Thanks, xo. I hope the husband is doing okay as well!

dust – Hahahha! Closet’s Fat Legs = wonderful turn of phrase.

gretchen – I do understand.

Alicia – Thanks, xo. How did you know about the Crocs???

Bex – Thanks, xo.

By: Bex

Bex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:27:59 +0000

I am glad the surgery went well..and glad that you haven’t lost your wit!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:31:44 +0000

So glad to hear the surgery went well.

The hospital is definitely other worldly…a sea of Crocs, bad sweaters, the occasional hot doctor, and that weird smell that hospitals always seem to have…I don’t miss it.

By: gretchen

gretchen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:47:44 +0000

having just this week spent a day and a half in a hospital waiting on surgery on my guy, i understand ….it got to where the nurses were asking me if I needed anything – took me a bit to realize i was doing much of their job by staying in the room and tending to the small needs- drinks, pillow placement, diet coke runs….he’s on the mend now, but i’m still at beck & call and thankful i can do it. you understand.

oh, and i looked good, too – give’em a reason to mend quicker ~

By: dust

dust — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:43:43 +0000

Yeah, here in The Other Life shoes are much more better!
Good to hear you rant….

Yes, the cardigan should most definitely go to Tavi. She’s a good kid. Better Tavi in old lady’s pearls than Closet’s Fat Legs. At least she is not 24 AND stupid.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:36:34 +0000

Good to hear that Max has that surgery behind him. Sending love and kisses to you all. xoxo