Private Room??

Thank you for all your help sisters. Guess what? I called the hospital today, and to my delight, ALL of the rooms are private. Scratch that one off my "to worry about" list! )~

Highly recommend a private room. No need to have to play nice with someone you dont even know. I went to a hospital that only had private rooms for adults..but guess who was put on in a room on the pediatric floor?! I am 37 never had any kids and now never will. My parents were livid! They requested that I be moved immediately. There was a young girl in that room and she couldn't understand why I was moaning because she couldn't hear her TV and she kept bumping my bed. I think she was trying to make me stop not understanding that she was making things worse. Lovely children in our world. :burning: Later my father told me all of this. Your family does have that right when you are incapacitated. To make matters worse, my family didn't know this but I had taught the head nurse's kids for the ped floor. Since I wasn't on the morphine pump yet the pain was high, so I really didn't know what was going on because they had given me a shot of some really nice meds. I don't know if it costs extra. I am very lucky because my insurance had OK'd this and everything is totally paid for by them. The sheet of expenses showed that the room was $609.00 a day. Private room is just so much better. I was in the hospital for 4 days. It is your bathroom, your TV and when you can't sleep you can have the lights on to read or watch TV and no one else is bothered by you. And no one bother you too, except the nurses for your vitals.:

Jennifer
TAH...kept ovaries
10-10-01

Now some insurance companies will charge you extra for a private room. but it is soooo worth it. I was lucky, the hospital that I went to is ALL private rooms. I had to change rooms which I wasn't too thrilled about. But if you can get one go for it!!! Take care and best of luck

Hi there JudieAnne!

My surgery is the day after yours! TAH w/possible BSO/Birch (Bladder) Repair/ Anterior & Posterior Vaginal Repair/Extended Rectal Repair. I want a private room as well! Our insurance coverage will pay for a semi private but I am more than willing to pay the difference for a private. However, here in at the Brantford General, Ontario, it is first come, first seve, so I have to start begging the day of my surgery!!! Lucky me.

Hope all goes well for you and being that we are EVER so close in timing I would love to hear from you,

Mugwump

:email:MeighenD@as-if.com

Hi All,

I have to post my different experience. I was happy not to be in a private room. I had some complications and I was afraid to be alone in my room. Yes, sometimes her TV was too loud, and sometimes she was sick, and there were nurses in the room a lot, and she had visitors, but then again, sometimes she comforted me when I was sick, and she called the nurse for me when my button fell off the bed, and she called the nurse when I was gasping for air and couldn't call myself. As I said, I did have complications, but I was glad to have a roommate.

Teresa

I was put on a waiting list for a private room however when I was in recovery they told me I would have to go to a special observation room where I was close to the nurses due to the epidural for post-op pain relief. I was fine with that or else I would have been given a morophine push pump and I didn't want to have to wake up in the middle of the night in pain to push the button. The epidural was WONDERFUL and I would do it again that way. My room mate was noisy but when they gave her a sleeping pill I was able to rest. I also had my ear plugs that helped alot.

Call me spoiled, but I would NEVER want to have to share a hospital room with anyone! That's just too personal for me, especially for what can be traumatic, painful time - not to mention the embarrassing body functions and noises! There are just some things that are mean't to be kept private. Besides, all the rooms on the women's floor at our hospital are private. I think that's the way it should be!

Maggie The Spoiled Princess

TAH, Burch Bladder Repair, Endo., Aden., Fibroids, Cysts on Ovaries.