hospital fun

Am home now. Feeling very tired - strangely, you don't actually get much sleep in hospital. For the first 2 nights I was on IV antibiotics, which were supposed to be administered at 10pm exactly - except that didn't happen because of various random emergencies (afaik, none of them on the "someone is about to die" scale, more like what The Sims calls "accidents"). On both nights, the drip got put in around 11.30pm "for 20 minutes", but then didn't get taken out again until quite a lot past midnight. It was pointless trying to go to sleep when I knew I was going to get awakened in a painful way. ( Cut for the squeamish. )

Having kept us up excessively late because of the need to administer drugs, THEN they decided to wake us up at 6am every day to give us some more. For some reason which I really don't understand, the NHS doesn't let you wake up at 6am, take tablets, roll over and go back to sleep - it is waking up for THE DAY, with noisy people coming in and clattering around and offering us hot drinks, and then ignoring you for a couple of hours until the doctors round at 8.30am. Some people more fortunate than I were able to be woken up, take their tablets and then go back to sleep despite the noise, but I'm one of these people that finds it almost impossible to go back to sleep after I've been woken up and severely prodded.

Losing ability to be coherent now, will write more later (tomorrow, prolly).

Do you not need one of these in your life?

The Optimus keyboard - a keyboard with an lcd display in each key. Scroll down for the Photoshop and Quake layouts.

It is apparently real and will be available in 2006.