What are some good ways to pass the time while in the hospital?
I normally stare at the wall at home. But im on meds now and although im still paranoid i feel like trying to do something. Im allowed my phone, there are no books on unit (idk why not), and the unit has modules to do. Im doing one on procrastination but as you can guess…im putting it off.
What do you do to pass the time while in hospital? I might be here a while as i dont like the med im on and plan on being stubborn about it.
I had to give shish and kabob up to a family members friend. She absolutely loves ferrets and even cut a whole in her couch because kabob loves to hang out under couches. So shes pretty cool. I just felt real bad for them because i go into the hospital a lot (hopefully after this visit that will change) and so they had to be moved a lot. And then taken care of for weeks which js a lot of work for family. I hate i had to do that though, really miss the little guys.
Books always did it for me, but some places didn’t have any so I had to have someone bring some to me. The ward is often really, really boring. I did a lot of pacing if I couldn’t find a book.
Yea I did a lot of pacing as well @mistery. I did it for an entire month I was in the ward. One day I thought I walked 20 miles and the next day I couldn’t stand up because my legs were so tired. It’d be nice to have someone bring cheeseburger potato chips as well.
I walked the unit. got some books and read through those. and because I was obsessed with food, I sat down and made a list of all the ingredients I was going to cook with and consume on a daily basis. basically I came up with 73 ingredients that would grow in my climate zone.
No pool table or ping-pong table? Most wards I’ve been on have at least one of those. Hell, one of the last psyche wards I was on I organized about 7 people and we played touch football on the back lawn, lol.
But my favorite pastimes in hospitals was sleeping and pacing. And raiding the refrigerator for orange juice. Sad to say, but in one of my last hospitalizations they had special drinks in the refrigerator for people suffering from anorexia. The drinks were in small cans but each drink had 1500 calories and was fortified with a ton of vitamins.
I tried one and they were chocolate or vanilla flavored and they tasted like milkshakes ( I never suffered from anorexia by the way). One of the nurses said I could drink them so I helped myself. I drank at least three a day during a four day stay. Man, I miss those but counting breakfast, lunch, dinner and those drinks I was probably eating and drinking close to 7000 calories a day, lol!!
During my most recent hospitalization I spent a lot of time cuddled up in bed thinking about my life ( I was cold from the air conditioner) but I made sure to go to every group and meal even if I wasn’t hungry and didn’t want to go. I also walked laps for exercise.