"Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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> "John Kuthe" > wrote in message
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> 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...
>
>
> At 3,000.00 a night on average they have every incentive to keep you there
> and run more tests. People really do heal better at home. I know a few
> nurses and they tell me that is why they send you home as soon as they
> think you are stable and can take care of yourself.

There was no way I could have come home that first night. I was so very
sick and disoriented.