"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2019-01-23 12:19 p.m., Cheri wrote:
>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message Yes, when I was
>> recently in the hospital I hated being treated like a child too with the
>> "do you understand what I'm saying dear" etc, also dh was taking care of
>> some paper work and one of the receptionists kept telling him not to lose
>> the paper, to take it to the pharmacy, she told him that several times.
>> Finally he said to her, I may be older but I'm not senile and I'm sure I
>> can make it to the pharmacy without losing the paper. LOL
>>
>
> Fact is that some people don't really understand. They are often full of
> drugs that alter their thought processes. When I was in the hospital after
> heart surgery there were a number of people who came in one or two a day,
> told me their names and their departments and gave me advice. I didn't
> remember much. On the day I was discharged I met with the pharmacist and
> she talked for a good half hour. Most of it went in one ear and out the
> other.
>
> FWIW.... my bypass was an emergency surgery after angioplasty went bad and
> they pierced my left main coronary artery while clearing out a blockage.
> I was heavily sedated and recall very little of what happened. I thought
> that it was 5-10 minutes between that and the surgery, but my wife said it
> was over an hour. I remember being told I have to have "an operation". I
> woke up looking like Frankenstein and feeling like I had been hit by a
> truck. I told my wife that I had not realized that the "operation" was
> going to be such a big deal. She said that they told me, that two doctors
> had come and explained exactly what they were going to do. I don't
> remember that at all.
>
> Patients have a lot on their minds and they do sometimes get very
> confused.
>


Except my dh was NOT the patient, I was. I don't feel that they needed to
keep calling me sweetie, honey, dear, etc. either since everytime they came
in to do anything, they had me say my full name and birth date, so I would
have preferred to have been called Cheri like an adult, no biggie, just got
on my nerves a bit.

Cheri