In article >,
John Kuthe > wrote:

> On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 4:22:58 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> > I'll spare you all of the details but they were going to send me home after
> > the surgery and we had to beg them not to. I was very ill and couldn't
> > even
> > stand up! Oddly enough I am boiling hot, but no fever. I would think
> > since
> > I am not on the thyroid med, I would be cold. And wearing the jammies with
> > the fuzzy top was a bad move. I have fuzz stuck to the wound. But I can
> > shower with plain water later. I'm going to finish eating these ice chips
> > then go to bed with an ice pack. Fun times! Hard to talk and eat but I'll
> > make it.
>
> Hospitals and other medical/surgical places are the most expensive real
> estate out there! No more "admitted the night before surgery and then stay
> there days after", not anymore. Much more money to be made by kicking YOU out
> ASAP and get the next poor sot in there whose FOR PROFIT INSURANCE will PAY!
>
> John Kuthe...

I don't know about that. They let me stay 11 days, and I was wanting to
go home pretty badly by then. And by the 10th day when they finally let
me eat the food tasted awfully good even for hospital food. By then, for
some reason, the one thing I really craved was a fresh baked loaf of
bread.