LOL! I’m sure it was all tea and crumpets. 
Or it might be that they need vitals taken at regular intervals, whether or not the patient is awake.
Sure , it could be (although I think a lot of times overnight vitals are just habit and I don’t think it was necessary in my case since they were always normal) but there really isn’t any schedule where it was absolutely necessary to take vitals at midnight and again at 5 ( which is not even a 4 hour schedule) and then wake me at again at 6 for the glucose test because neither the vitals nor the glucose test * could be moved by an hour. That almost had to be because everyone was taking care of multiple patients and I don’t think it would have happened if I was a nurse’s only patient.
* Which was only happening because for some reason the hospital doctors preferred to stop my diabetes medication and put me on insulin instead for the two days I was there.
When was this? That sounds like something from the mid- to late 1990s, when drive-through mastectomies and deliveries, against the protests of people who actually worked with these patients, were the thing, and then the predictable happened: Complications that cost way more than an extra day or two in the hospital, that could be dealt with if the patients were there, drove costs way up.
My own “boob jobs” were outpatient, but in each case, I had tissue about the size of an egg removed. I didn’t even have a drain.
Someone on another board who said they had lived in both the U.K. and the U.S. said that she also didn’t have to deal with the NHS’ waiting lists, or them refusing to do something potentially lifesaving because it isn’t covered in the NHS system.
- It was the case for everyone in my online support group – US was day surgery or one night; other countries were around a week.
Last year I had the same symptoms while on vacation in Chicago. I was in hypovolemic shock when the ambulance arrived at my hotel and when I got to the hospital they had me in a room within minutes and had decided they were going to admit me to ICU as soon as a room was ready. I wound up spending five days and eventually found out I had contracted rotavirus.
I guess it all depends on the hospital.
The children live at home and attend school as day pupils. The inference in their mother’s statement was that the news was broken to them gently over a period of time, presumably the past few weeks. It therefore wasn’t that they waited until the school term had ended before telling the children; it was that they waited until then before telling everyone else. Which seems entirely sensible. I know from personal experience that this is not the sort of thing you want to have to discuss with your classmates when you’re that age.
Especially since said classmates will include at least one kid who blurts out “Does that mean she’s gonna DIE?”
Thanks. That was not clear to me at all. I withdraw my comment!
There is no way in hell I would have wanted to get pregnant at 42. I also had three kids by then, and I had hardly any problems with my pregnancies. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be with the issues she had. 2 more kids at 42 is really sort of stupid. At least I think it would be in her case.
I hope she comes through this with good health and as much dignity as the press will allow her.
My son is a microbiologist doing cancer research and his finance is a nurse practitioner who does a lot of Ob-Gyn work. Both of them were quick to point out that the abdomen is chock full of different organs vulnerable to many different types of cancer, and that any one of those organs may be attacked by a cancer from a different organ, so any kind of speculation about what Kate has, how she got it, whether it was genetic, environmental or whatever, is pointless without detailed explanations from people who actually know what’s going on.
My future daughter-in-law notes that doctors may have seen something during whatever procedure she was undergoing, and decided to let her stay there and recover while they were waiting for results to come back. In the U.S., standard treatment is to send the patient home to recover and call her back in a week or so with the results, but as we’ve seen, the Royal Family does things a little differently.
Well, except for it was announced prior to the surgery that she was already going to be staying for two weeks. So not due to anything that happened after that.
But does anyone outside their inner circle know when that surgery happened?
Why would they? Why would anyone else want to know (let alone need to)?
On 17 January a statement was issued from Kensington Palace to the effect that the Princess of Wales had been admitted to hospital the day before for planned abdominal surgery, and that the surgery had gone well. We may infer that the surgery was performed either on 16 or 17 January.
(That statement also said that she would remain in hospital for 10 to 14 days, and was unlikely to return to public duties until after Easter. I don’t think it’s correct to say that these two things were announced before the surgery had been done.)
Well, the press cares because it makes them a lot of money. But there is a better side to it among some of the British public. They feel that they could have done better at protecting Princess Di. They made their love for her well known, but not their approbation when “the corporation” treated her unfairly. They didn’t demand fair treatment for her, or boycott newspapers that cut her down. Then of course, after everyone thought that all concerned had learned the hardest lesson imaginable, it all happened again with Meghan.
So I think there is, within Gen X at least, a sense that they want to make sure the powers that be know they are watching out for Kate. And a willingness to demand more forcefully when something is clearly off.
I don’t deny an element of voyeurism even in the best intentioned of Royal Watchers, but there is also this base of women watching out for women, which I find quite touching.
And of course, as it turns out, they were right.
A new story from the BBC that mentions that a Russian group of “political technologists” spread some of the social media rumors about Kate, among other subjects. It’s like mountain climbers hammering crampons into a cliff face to get higher (I don’t climb, so if this analogy is terrible I apologize).