Your Longest Stay

[low-key]

in the Hospital ?

6 days, my appendices burst

 

[Meriweather]

3 days for a hysterectomy. Wish I had stayed longer.

 

[JessicaR]

10 days spinal fusion. My appendix burst too! That was a week. I think I'm done - please.

 

[Cinderella94]

60 days. Over this past Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.

 

[marcyinPA]

Four days...c-section. Hopefully that will be it for me. I hate hospitals.

 

[Aimeedyan]

8 nights/9 days, double resection (bowel) and then some. Awful, awful.

 

[*JoGo*]

just Fri morning through Sunday afternoon, when each of my boys were born.

And if I had known the hospital would've released us after 24 hrs with my youngest, I would've been out of there --- had a "roommate" that was AWFUL. The maternity floor was overflowing. Actually, I would've rescheduled my induction to a different day! That lady was ridiculous.

 

[MomofKatie]

3 nights when DD was born. Arrived Thursday night at 11pm, DD born Friday afternoon, left on Sunday after lunch. Was glad to go home!!

 

[SleepyMom]

60 days. Over this past Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.

Same time frame for me... for a total of 6 weeks. Went in the Monday before Thanksgiving, but they let me go home on that Wednesday for the holiday. Went back into the hospital the next Monday and spent the end of November all of December and part of January. After DD was born I was able to go home, but she stayed another 3 weeks, so I was still there every day until she came home near the end of January. It was worth every minute of it, wish I could have stayed longer because DD was still 6 weeks early.

 

[indimom]

Personally, two days for each of my babies.
But, if it counts, DH and I stayed with our son for three weeks in 2001 when he was seriously ill with a blood infection and pnuemonia. He was only 1, so we were there with him 24/7 during that time.

 

[njmom47]

5 days....viral meningitis. Then 4 days, never really got a confirmed diagnosis.

 

[golfgal]

Same time frame for me... for a total of 6 weeks. Went in the Monday before Thanksgiving, but they let me go home on that Wednesday for the holiday. Went back into the hospital the next Monday and spent the end of November all of December and part of January. After DD was born I was able to go home, but she stayed another 3 weeks, so I was still there every day until she came home near the end of January. It was worth every minute of it, wish I could have stayed longer because DD was still 6 weeks early.

Our twins were born in your town. I was officially discharged after 4 days but the twins stayed another 4 days after that. The hospital on the east side of town let you stay in a hospital room for free so you could be close to your baby/ies in NICU-especially if you were nursing. It was really nice. I knew someone that had a baby in the other hospital and had to drive in from an hour away every day to visit her babies in the NICU.

My longest stays were 4 days-C-sections for both births.

 

[hulagirl87]

3 days when DD was born. Hopefully that's it for me. DH's grandma has been in for 7 weeks so far. I hope that she gets to go home soon.

 

[Luvmy4boys]

6 weeks...bone marrow transplant. It was horrible. No one should have to eat hospital food for that long.

 

[charming23]

I have never had to stay overnight in a hospital, knock on wood. The only time I was ever there was when I had my tonsils out in 2nd grade and go there at 6am and was home at 6pm.

My parents however are another story, so I have spent a lot of time in them.

 

[bigbabyblues]

3 nights for c-sections with both of my boys. Those are the only two times I've been hospitalized since I was a baby.

My 2nd DS had to have skull surgery when he was 18 months old. DS, DH & I all spent 5 nights at Children's Hopsital during that. Longest 6 days of my life.

 

[simba20]

5 days/4 nights with my c-section.

Entered the hospital on Monday morning thinking I was having Braxton Hicks contracts and thought I was going to be sent home. I didn;t even know I was in true labor. I arrived and was 100% effaced and 2 cm dialated. Went for the non-c-section option, but DD was facing backwards and was not coming down. Dr. called a c-section after 2 hours of pushing.

Had the c-section and then suffered from complications, including losing a lot of blood in which I had to have a transfusion (DD was born Tues morning at 1:08 a.m., Wednesday morning from midnight to 6 a.m. I received three pints of blood) I sepnt Tuesday and Wednesday so out of it.

Was released at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon.

The following Sunday, I should have checked back in due to having a spinal headache. Only I had no idea what it was and suffered through it all day on Sunday. I am so thankful my mom came to stay with us, as I could not do anything at all. Lying down was uncomfortaable and so was sittign up, I was useless. I found out later that what I had was a spinal headache and I should have gone to the ER for a blood patch, instead I suffered though. OMG!

 

[LaurenLC]

6 days/5 nights... I was induced and then eneded up with a c-secton.... 9 days after delivery I ended up back in the hospital for 6 days with a bolod clot in my lung.

 

[JaneBanks]

A week a for removing my Gall Bladder.

 

[disfan07]

8 days for brain surgery last June. However, I was back a week later for another 5 days because of asthma and cardiac complications from the anesthesia.

I have never had crazy long stays, I am just a high relapse and frequent patient.

I've spent about 80 days total in the same hospital over the past 2 years. And about 50 days total in a different hospital the 4 years before that.

It's bad when you can tell your doctors which floor you would prefer to be admitted to (and if they can...they actually fulfill your request!) I've been on every patient floor in the hospital and I definitely have my preferences. Luckily, I am usually admitted for asthma or heart issues so I get to be on the pulmonary or cardiac floors which are my first two preferences. And those floors have my favorite nurses. You have to make the best out of a bad situation.