Me, too. Once for each child birth. I voted, “a few”. I also spent the night with my son, once. I spent a ton of days with my mom, but i didn’t think i ever spent the night with her.
Me also! just about 55 years.
I’ve been hospitalized (including being admitted and staying overnight) only three times so far, in 60 years:
- Surgery to repair a congenital inguinal hernia, when I was two years old
- Overnight observation after going to the ER, when I was 30, due to a kidney stone.
- Overnight observation after going into the ER, when I was 40, complaining of chest pains. My heart turned out to be just fine, but that’s where and when they discovered I have type 2 diabetes.
I said once, but who knows. Went into the ER at midnight, slept intermittently under morphine, had my gallbladder taken out at 11AM, left the hospital at 4PM. Kinda?
I played one version of Killer that was better. Each of us got a few things that would be clues- right or left handed, tall or short , and it was 50/50 including the two killers- and one Inspector. When a kill was done, the GM would say it was done by a “tall right handed person”. The inspector could ask several players a turn if tall or short or handedness and they had to answer honestly- or the DM would answer. So “the victims” had real clues. Of course we knew everyones clues soonish, but remember- the two killers were different- maybe. (Turned out they were, but they didnt have to be).
There was a couple other rules, and the victims won, but only near the end. (If one player voted to save the Inspector, instead of the execute a suspect he couldnt be killed, he lasted most of the game. )
I was admitted to the hospital for a week at Christmas when I was four due to acute tonsillitis. Twelve years later I was in for a few days dealing with a jaw surgery. Jump ahead 31 years and I was in twice in the space of three months for two vastly different surgeries. Both times I spent multiple nights in the joint. Now I’ve been hospital-free for ten years.
I had my tonsils removed when I was about 4. I remember some aspects of it, and vaguely remember being in a hospital bed, but I honestly don’t remember if I spent the night. I think I probably didn’t, so I said nope.
One amusing memory is they were giving me the anaesthetic (some gas, ether I guess? Were they still using ether in the 1960s?) Anyway, they asked me to start counting, so they could tell when I became unconscious. I reached 13, and said “that’s as much as I know”. The nurse seemed a little nonplused by that, and then said, “ok, start over again”. I don’t think I reached 13 a second time.
Did you get ice cream? I didn’t know I was supposed to get “all the ice cream I could eat” until I listened to that Cosby album years later.
Memories are very vague, but I do remember something about ice cream. I don’t remember if I got it in the hospital or after I got home.
I know it was all I could eat for me (age 6). Only hospitalization in my life (in terms of staying for at least one night, tho I was in the ER for several hours after a moderate concussion).
4 nights when I had a stroke. 4 nights when I had serious back surgery. A couple of overnight stays for observation for things that turned out to be nothing. Currently working to avoid another surgery but it might be inevitable
Wait a minute, I forgot the tonsils! I was hospitalized three times, not two. And three is a few. Guess I can vote after all.
I had to fight for the icecream. They promised me, before the surgery, that I could have ice cream after it was over. When I woke up, instead of ice cream they gave me Cream of Wheat. Which I would probably have been happy enough with except that they’d promised me ice cream. I was very annoyed and argued, and I think I eventually did get the ice cream. I doubt it was all I could eat; I think it was just one small portion – but then, they hadn’t promised me all I could eat; they’d just promised me ice cream.
So far, no overnight stays besides when I was born. In my early teens I did do an extra long ER visit after falling out of a tree.
I’ve had one 3-week spell in hospital on
skin traction
Adhesive skin traction is a method used in orthopedics to apply a pulling force to the skin of a limb to help with bone alignment, reduce pain, and correct minor deformities. It’s typically used for fractures, dislocations, or other conditions where a gentle, sustained pull is needed. The traction is applied using adhesive straps or bandages that are attached to the skin and then connected to weights.
How it works:
Adhesive Straps:
Special adhesive straps or bandages are applied to the skin of the affected limb.
Traction Weight:
A spreader bar and weight are attached to the straps, creating a pulling force.
Immobilization and Alignment:
This pull helps to align the bones, reduce pain, and immobilize the injured area, allowing for healing.
following a motorcycle accident about 45 years ago wherein i dislocated
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injected into the back of my hand while they relocated it.
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bandage off after 3 weeks - Ouchie !!
I had to sit and think bout this one.
I’ve been hospitalized about 7 times.
The first one at age three in July 1961 when a car hit me and dragged me down the street with my clothing securing me to the bumper.
For years afterwards my family referred to me as “Bumper Gal”. 
Never been admitted to a hospital. ER two or three times.
But I have had an “other” surgery. Vasectomy counts apparently.
Only three surgeries in my life, all of which are “other”:
- Repair of a congenital inguinal hernia
- Surgical (general anesthesia) extraction of my wisdom teeth
- Repair of a fractured elbow, which involved installation of a titanium plate
I think “wisdom tooth removal (4)” is technically surgery.* I’ve also had various things poked at with sharp instruments by a medical professional with the goal of their ultimate disappearance (e.g. a persistent stye), which I think also technically count, but those were all outpatient procedures with local anesthetic at best.
*I remain unconvinced that the removal was necessary. I was 19, and the dentist scared me by describing the pain I’d be in if they became impacted, but in retrospect was surprisingly cagey about the likelihood. My mouth currently has nice large gaps where a wisdom tooth would fit easily, on the bottom at least.
That was my “other” as well. The guy who did it had “surgeon” in his job title, so I say it counts. In my case, two of them were impacted, but they since we’re removing those two anyway we might as well just remove all four.
I couldn’t answer without clarification whether oral surgery (i.e. wisdom teeth removal) counts as surgery.