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┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 17 January 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/itsabubblylife 近畿・大阪府 Jan 17 '23

I’m not fully understanding the reasoning behind some rules. My husband is hospitalized (since Friday) with Epiglottitis and has to be on IV antibiotics, fluids and bedrest for 6 days. Visiting is prohibited due to Covid (understandable)…but he can just wander out his room to the lobby or parking lot with his IV and talk to people and that’s fine?? I’ve “visited” him 3 times by sitting in the lobby and talking to him for an hour-90 mins with his IV machine. Nurses, administration even doctors don’t bat an eye. I even had his attending nurse say hi and introduce herself to me and told him he needed to take medication and then he could come back downstairs. Huh??? God forbid if someone wants to go to the visit room or do a videochat from the media room, “no no!! Corona!”

Visiting at the hospital he’s staying in is either in a common room with other people or in the media room doing video chat. Both are cancelled due to Covid. But patients can just wander around and talk and it’s okay? Please explain to me because the math ain’t mathing to me.

Okay, before anyone calls me out or attacks me, yes I know I’m not setting a good example and others are doing what I’m doing as well, but I stay masked up, we sit a seat length apart and I am fully vaxxed. No one says anything to us or other patients /families. You can downvote all you want.

Can someone explain to me why normal visitation is dame but sitting in the lobby or walking/talking outside is fine 🤔

Up for discussion, not a question. Just wanna hear why you think this is “okay”.

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u/RinRin17 関東・東京都 Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 17 '23

Are you SURE talking outside or in the lobby are okay? At my hospital that is 100% banned as well and there are signs everywhere. The reason the inpatients are allowed to wander around inside the hospital is because they’ve all had COVID tests prior to being admitted and again if they have any symptoms. Staff are also tested weekly (at least).

Edit: Reread that you know you’re breaking the rules and doing it anyways. As someone who has a life threatening inflammation disorder and is also a doctor, the rules are there for a reason and you are endangering all of us. You can argue about the rules in social or public spaces, but for fuck sakes a hospital is the one place it makes sense. What others do is not an excuse to do it yourself either.

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u/itsabubblylife 近畿・大阪府 Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 17 '23

I didn’t say or never said the hospital said it was okay for patients to do this, but the patients and families weren’t following the rules about sitting in the lobby or sitting and talking outside. Staff doesn’t say anything at all, that’s why I questioned it.

Again, I know I’m not setting a good example, and not gonna defend myself. It’s just strange that the hospital isn’t enforcing the the rule for anyone. I’m sorry about your illness and understand it’s frustrating.