Staying in a hospital is a very inspirational experience. If you've never had the opportunity to do so I highly recommend this occasion. People are succumbed to the hospital for many reasons as a result of our being mortal and fragile beings. Whether it be appendicitis, kidney failure, hip replacement or conditions far worse we tend to loathe the recovery in a hospital room. This article serves to offer insight on innovative and creative ways to spend your stay in your deluxe room. Ponder these from the confines of your hospital bed and be at one with your surroundings.
Specifically we'll indulge into one obvious area of creation in your room. The one who never fails to leave your side and who loves to speak to you in the dead of night - the notorious rolling IV stand. It is customary to dread this contraption but it would do you well to develop a deep relationship with galvanized confidant. Here are a few activity ideas for the both of you to engage in:
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1. The doctors and nurse always love to encourage walking. Walking is a normal design of the human body and perpetuates circulation and improvement. When walking becomes wearisome and you fail to see the beauty in your surroundings consider waltzing with your IV stand. It doesn't talk back and it's completely objective. A big plug is that it has four legs instead of two. Now how can you compete or fail with that?
2. We all love music! Music quiets the soul or magnifies it to unbelievable rebellion. Especially for those who grew up in the 70s and 80s, the age of the heavy rock bands flourished and succored the teenage thirst for love as well as anarchy. Let's be honest. How many of us have secretly or publicly played an air guitar or fashioned an electric guitar from a broomstick? At some point we've all enjoyed mimicking our favorite tunes with our imaginary instruments. Why not return to nostalgia by using your rolling IV stand as a beloved guitar. As you eternally wait for your doctor to arrive, in hopes of issuing your release, you can be rock'in and rolling in your room!
3. We love mystery and most of us like science fiction. We thrive for the drama of impending peril of invading space aliens or zombies back from the dead. Have you ever seen the 70s hit "Close Encounters of the Third Kind?" What does the main character say about his sculpture of the unyeilding Devil's Tower in Wyoming? He says, "This means something.." Well, as your mind is spinning into the depths of the abyss why not create something out of your IV stand that means something. Put a couple hospital gowns over the top and create your own mountain or ghostly figure to satisfy your imagination.
4. Holidays are a time of goodwill, love and family. Christmas is that especial time of year that enhances our purpose and focuses on the one in whom we owe our salvation. Not so important now but it wasn't long ago that most households had a Christmas tree right in their living room. Fancy the thought, as you listen to your hospital room walls close in on you, of producing your own Christmas tree and symbol of hope and recovery. If you notice at the top where the IV bags hang there are hooks to support them. What better place is there to hang tinsel and ornaments from. Merry Christmas and happy decorating!
5. We all depend on media and we all convince ourselves that we can't live without television. Yet, from the hospital bed television quickly becomes boring and fruitless. With visitors coming few and far between we become isolated. The nurses themselves, though lovely and kind, tend to their duties emptying your urinal, taking vitals and changing your IV bags. They haven't the time to stay and chew the fat with you. It's no wonder that some would say you need psychiatric help after you leave the medical facility. Yet one thing remains that will always listen to you - your rolling IV stand. As in traditional therapy session you may lay there and bear your soul as the "therapist" evaluates and sees to your spiritual welare. What a friend in total confidence.
As we encounter those times in our lives where we find our place in unholy territory, as is our home, we must strive to find the silver lining in our continued existence of where we are. I hope this article post finds its way to the hearts and minds of those who find themselves imprisoned within the painted walls of hospitals. May it bring you fruit from a wayward friend who understands and supports you. May it serve to enhance ideas to the will of the mind of what you can do to maintain, or destroy, your spirit and sanity in that haven of your hospital.
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May I take this opportunity to thank the cast and crew (the nursing staff and doctors) of the Shenandoah Memorial Hospital for their kind and considerate care. May you be blessed and may you find renewed respect for those rolling IV stands.
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