Sunday 13 April 2008

Badgers wheezy stay in MAU...

During my stay in the Medical Assessment Unit I was situated by a window which looked out from the front of the hospital. I was pleased to have a window. In fact now I think of it other asthma people were by the window as well, maybe it was in some hope of getting the smallest scrap of breeze slip through a window and save you from the ever choking heat being circulated around the building.

As my view was to the front I watched all the buses tooing and frowing when I decided I would create a bus chart/time table, and like anything Badger related when I set my mind to something it is VERY important the job is done properly. Once I did not finish my science exam because I HAD to count all the tiles on the ceiling in the school hall. There are a few gaps in my chart I can only assume due to it being a saturday so maybe some buses were less frequent.



Being in hospital was very dull albeit safe and being that I had driven for 6 hours before I got sick I landed up in a southern hospital, I noted I got dinner in the afternoons and not tea which made me happy indeed (until it arrived of course!).

There were a lot of very elderly people in MAU and they were all either very deaf or not with it at all. There were routine questions for the confused ones and I have learnt that WW2 was 1939 - 1945. I did say to one doctor when she came to me next after seeing a very confused old lady "Please don't ask me when World War 2 was, I am not confused but my general knowledge is lacking in historical dates"... she smiled. All the doctors were lovely. All 8 of them that I saw over my 70 hour stay.

Its good to be out!

11 comments:

Misssy M said...

Glad you're feeling better. I can imagine that a frequent bus service was quite a novelty after the last few months in the village.

I had a head injury one and they asked me who the Prime Minister was. I got it right the doctor nearly got it wrong as it was the day after that Thatcher being chucked out and John Major taking over. Still, an old drunk geezer said it was Gladstone ten mins before me.

Random Reflections said...

Pleased to hear you are better.

I was very amused by what you said to the doctor!

Ms Melancholy said...

Hey little Badger,

looking forward to having you home. Frank has missed you so much he couldn't quite finish his mole (oh yes, a mole this time) and left it half eaten on the kitchen floor. We have saved it for you to clean up......

Looking forward to seeing you very soon

xxx

But Why? said...

I'm so glad someone has their finger on the pulse of the Surrey hospital bus services. I think you should now take the next steps and compare your findings to the published information, highlighting the inconsistencies and incidents where the service level was unacceptably poor and demand compensation from the bus companies for ruining your otherwise beautiful spreadsheet.

Glad you made it out. You may have been in danger of going stir-crazy otherwise.

Jean said...

I first understood mole as the Mexican dish of meat with chocolate and was very impressed with Ms M's and Stray's cooking skills. These misunderstandings are not confined to people with Asperger's (or on the other hand, I may have some tendencies in that direction too).

Hope you are much better now, Badger.

Political Umpire said...

Nice to read of someone with some honesty; had it been me my eternal smart-arsedness would have said 'depends on the protagonists as to when it started (for the Chinese it was rather earlier), and technically for the Germans it didn't end until 1990'. This tendancy has never made me popular.

Queen Vixen said...

Hospital is an education. Not all of it good - but sounds like you were well looked after. Glad all is well.

Jon M said...

Sorry to hear you're ill Badger! Hope you are feeling better and I loved the bus chart/ timetable!

Reading the Signs said...

I was once in hospital with asthma too - very scary. I'm very glad you're out and better.

Beanz said...

are the badger lungs holding out ok?

Miss Tickle said...

Poor Badger lungs. I hope they recover soon and well.