Short Hospital stays after mastectomies

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Recently some people posted concerns about how mastectomy stays are

less than 24 hours. And while insurance companies may be part of the

equation, the major part has to do with your recovery. Several classes

I have taken have referred to " Recline equals decline " ...translate to

mean if you stay on your fanny, it's gonna take longer to get up and

about. I have known several people who have had knee and/or hip

replacement surgeries, and the physical therapists were practically

right there at their bedside when they woke up to get them up and going!

My breasts are not as essential has a knee or a hip, so if they give me

the green light to go home, I'm going! (Just make sure I have " good

drugs " for pain)

Not to mention the fact that the longer you stay in the hospital, the

more you are exposed to nasty strep and staph infections...I mean think

about all those other people in there who are contagiously sick.

And do you *really* want to eat hospital food!?! My dad was in the

hosptial for several weeks with a collapsed lung and pneumonia....and

green jello with lunch AND dinner!! As a joke, I put a box of green

jello on his pillow when he got home (kind of like the mint at a fancy

hotel)....he threw it at me..LOL!

Well, off to do something fun but gentle...I'm 2 days post A/C chemo,

and feeling a bit " down " .

Lucinda in VA

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My surgeon had me up the next morning and wanted me walking around. It was

dinner time before I got back to my room or I have a feeling I would have been

walking that night! He does not believe in laying around.

The hospital I was in had good food. My husband ordered bacon with his eggs for

breakfast and got 3 pieces but wanted more so I went down and got myself

something and asked for 3 more pieces of bacon. When I got to the register I

said to the girl my husband really likes bacon. She asked if he was a patient or

visitor and I said patient. She said no charge for the bacon. To make it even

better their food is really reasonable.

Hugs

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Short Hospital stays after mastectomies

Recently some people posted concerns about how mastectomy stays are

less than 24 hours. And while insurance companies may be part of the

equation, the major part has to do with your recovery. Several classes

I have taken have referred to " Recline equals decline " ...translate to

mean if you stay on your fanny, it's gonna take longer to get up and

about. I have known several people who have had knee and/or hip

replacement surgeries, and the physical therapists were practically

right there at their bedside when they woke up to get them up and going!

My breasts are not as essential has a knee or a hip, so if they give me

the green light to go home, I'm going! (Just make sure I have " good

drugs " for pain)

Not to mention the fact that the longer you stay in the hospital, the

more you are exposed to nasty strep and staph infections...I mean think

about all those other people in there who are contagiously sick.

And do you *really* want to eat hospital food!?! My dad was in the

hosptial for several weeks with a collapsed lung and pneumonia....and

green jello with lunch AND dinner!! As a joke, I put a box of green

jello on his pillow when he got home (kind of like the mint at a fancy

hotel)....he threw it at me..LOL!

Well, off to do something fun but gentle...I'm 2 days post A/C chemo,

and feeling a bit " down " .

Lucinda in VA

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Lucinda, I would hate to be around you if this is what you are like when you are

feeling down (smile).

I appreciate your point of view. However, when I had my mastectomy, I had

reaction to the anthestic from surgery. They gave me morphine and I had a

reaction to that. I couldn't go home right after surgery because I wasn't

functioning. However, I had a roommate that had her second mastectomy and

started reconstruction. She was a tiny thing and went home the next day. She

was remarkable. I was envious. However, as she tried to put on her shoes, she

was really grimacing in pain. She told me she wondered what she had done to

herself.

Guess it all depends on what the circumstances are.

Jan K

lucinda eaglemom53@...> wrote:

Recently some people posted concerns about how mastectomy stays are

less than 24 hours. And while insurance companies may be part of the

equation, the major part has to do with your recovery. Several classes

I have taken have referred to " Recline equals decline " ...translate to

mean if you stay on your fanny, it's gonna take longer to get up and

about. I have known several people who have had knee and/or hip

replacement surgeries, and the physical therapists were practically

right there at their bedside when they woke up to get them up and going!

My breasts are not as essential has a knee or a hip, so if they give me

the green light to go home, I'm going! (Just make sure I have " good

drugs " for pain)

Not to mention the fact that the longer you stay in the hospital, the

more you are exposed to nasty strep and staph infections...I mean think

about all those other people in there who are contagiously sick.

And do you *really* want to eat hospital food!?! My dad was in the

hosptial for several weeks with a collapsed lung and pneumonia....and

green jello with lunch AND dinner!! As a joke, I put a box of green

jello on his pillow when he got home (kind of like the mint at a fancy

hotel)....he threw it at me..LOL!

Well, off to do something fun but gentle...I'm 2 days post A/C chemo,

and feeling a bit " down " .

Lucinda in VA

Jan Koelsch

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