sweet hospital stay

[AccountingDrone]

It sucked I didnt get my operation, and got checked in for something else entirely but Yale-New Haven Hospital is fantastic ...

The staff are all amazingly polite and helpful, they had volunteers wandering around, one was giving away stuff [YNHH hats, keychains, hair scrunchies and the like] and one had a beautiful golden retriever [for people in pet withdrawl] and the food was done room service style - ranging from a very good friend chicken [fried on site, not a frozen then fried chicken] through cedar plank grilled salmon through meatloaf and gravy. No more mystery slop on a plate with no taste!

I have to admit, though I really tried to be pleasant through the entire process, I sort of had a small meltdown right after I threw up all over preop admitting ... but in my defense I was seriously dehydrated and had a migraine that was actually hitting a 9 on the pain scale and was in regress to semi moronic phase of the migraine and seriously frustrated at being in pain, and thirsty, and grumpy and all I wanted was for the migraine to stop ... so when I go back in a few weeks I am taking them a gift basket of individually wrapped goodies [candy, cookies and stuff, including some from the co-op that are vegan and healthfoodie] and a doogie treat for the pooch in case she comes for another visit!

[BookstoreEscapee]

friend chicken

You made friends with your dinner?

I've never had the, uh, pleasure of a hospital meal, thank goodness. The only times I've been in the hospital were twice in the emergency room (for about 4 hours each time; once after what turned out to be my very first panic attack [joy], and the other after my car accident), and when I was 15 I spent a day in the short-stay unit getting tubes in my ears and then sleeping for most of the rest of the day. I got ginger ale and vanilla ice cream at the hospital, but that was it. I left around 5 so I had dinner at home.

Hope you are recovering well

[depechemodefan]

My mom recently been in the hospital a lot. She gives me her food, which reminds me of school cafeteria food. Thing also is she get dialysis and they might wheel her out before breakfast and she gets no breakfast or she misses lunch. One day she missed her lunch and he cardiologist came by to see her (note, she has no heart trouble, thoug one time she was admitted it was because her blood pressure was low, then the pericadium sack thing got full with liguid) and she was hungry so he bought her a sandwich.

I'm glad you got great grub!

[BookstoreEscapee]

My mom recently been in the hospital a lot. She gives me her food, which reminds me of school cafeteria food. Thing also is she get dialysis and they might wheel her out before breakfast and she gets no breakfast or she misses lunch..

Can she bring her own lunch to dialysis? Can she eat while they machine is doing its thing?

[hecubus]

Can she bring her own lunch to dialysis? Can she eat while they machine is doing its thing?

She should be able to. I do it all the time.

[jedimaster91]

The hospital I interviewed for has some of the best food I've ever tasted in a hospital. In addition to the normal grill and veggies, they have this Exposition Grill thing where they rotate different specialty dishes. A lot of times, it's some kind of pasta, sometimes it's salad. Last time I ate there, the dish was pasta with some sort of tomato alfredo sauce and your choice of chicken, broccoli, mushrooms, and diced tomatoes. A-mazing.

[Dreamstalker]

A local hospital here also has great food...that has become something of a family joke. We were there for tests and such one day and decided to grab lunch in the cafeteria. The special was "mexican chicken" which I got, thinking "no way is it anything like real chile". I was expecting something similar to the "chile verde" one finds in the supermarkets

Was I wrong. There must have been habaneros and two other chiles in there. I had no problem eating it (dad claims I have capsaicin for blood), but it just seemed unusual for a hospital cafeteria.

Mom is considering going back to school for a nutrition degree and getting a job in a nursing home or other institution. She says nursing-home food is mainly salt and fat (which I would tend to agree); yummy nutritious food can be made in quantity and cheaply.

[AccountingDrone]

Im doing well, I plan on packing differently for hysterectomy take 2 though ...

I understand that the food improvement is part of the whole patient bill of rights - as is the polite behavior.

I think the major change in the food taste is the result of years of studies proving that many prior thoughts were wrong - like bland food for certain illnesses, salt and blood pressure. Also if the food is good, then people will actually eat a proper meal instead of having someone smuggle in McDeath happy meals.

And any fried chicken that tastes that good is indeed my friend, right up until I eat it

[depechemodefan]

Can she bring her own lunch to dialysis? Can she eat while they machine is doing its thing?

At the hospital, I don't know why they didn't let her bring food in to dialysis. When she finally went to a outpatient dialysis place, first they let peeople bring their food. For holidays, like Halloween and Thanksgiving, they even provided goodies. Then some state regulation doesn't allow food in the dialysis area. Though the other day mom was drinking a boxed milk.