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Originally Posted by googley
-Try to get into Art group, you will get the most access to the most types of art supplies and it is different every time, even if it ends up just reading old magazines.
- Bring ear plugs. Sometimes the night nurses don't know where they are, and then you have to listen to your roommate snore all night.
-Remember that doctors don't come in on the weekend, if you enter the hospital on the weekend, don't expect much to happen. Or to get med changes if you are already there.
-Try to get something to help with sleep put in your records for as needed. You may not have trouble sleeping at home but it is much different in the hospital (if anything just because the nurses do checks and you may have trouble falling asleep between checks.)
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I heartily second these suggestions. I could NOT sleep most of the time I was hospitalized, which doesn't exactly help one's mood. I asked for something to help me sleep the first time I was in, and the doctor (yes, and MD) authorized Advil. Not Advil PM, just plain old Advil. It was almost (but not really) funny. The second time I was in, my shrink was in the same town and was able to advise them that I was OK to get an actual sleep aid.
Second time I was hospitalized was over the weekend....BOOOOORRRING! I was so stir crazy I thought I was going to scream!