After coming back from the hospital (happy happy joy joy) I feel kind of depressed. Not on my condition or the fact that I missed a few drama episodes at school, but I got really sad for the kids. While I was there I got to meet some of them. Few were older than me but alot of them were around the ages of 2-9. There was this adorable little girl the age of 4 or 5 and her family is from Egypt. Her mom told us that the doctor in their home country said her condition wasn't serious but she started seeing side affects so she brought her to New York City America. Here she found out that her daughter had a brain tumor that was growing. So it was really bad and she had this thing wrapped around her head and at night she kept crying and saying "su gani" however it's spelled and her mom told us it mean that she was in pain. I don't know, call me a softy but I got teary eyed and felt really bad for her. But there were other kids around who were in even worse conditions. The one little boy who screamed his heart out FOREVER. I mean 4 o clock in the mornining he was still crying. I'm just wondering if you guys, whenever you visited the hospital, did you ever go around to see other patients and talk with them or get that same feeling?
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Little Ones
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Yes, it is heart breaking.
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I spent a few months in the pediatric ward when I was installing the nurse call system there (among so many other wards over the years)What was sad was that there were a few rooms where we couldn't install any call-cords (long wire with the button on the end you push to call the nurse).The reason was that these rooms contained suicidal kids and were in danger of hanging themselves. The rooms had no curtains either. These kids were all 5-10 yrs oldNow that was sad
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As a rule my dad avoids hospitals. He will very rarely visit someone except if its someone close to him. I think the last time he was ever in a hospital was when his dad died 3/4 years ago. When I broke my arm last year he drove me to the hospital but waited outside, he just couldn't go in and I understood completely, never held it against him. The horrible thing is now his mother is in bad shape, he is supposed to be going away on holidays in 2 weeks but with the way things are going at the moment, he may be staying home.But anyway... I don't go to hospitals too often either, and when I do its to visit old relations so there are never kids around. I feel sorry for them being trapped in rooms that smell of cleaning products all the time, with people dying around you. Its awful some of the conditions that we put our families in.
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Lukily,i've never had to stay in a hospital for more then a few hours.so i've never seen people in very bad shape.but my gradpa(dads dad)is in the hospital right now.he has a bad lung problem.(heavy smoker)hes doing a lot better though.
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A very close friend of the family, a girl of 9 years has Leukimia. She used to be plump and happy all the time, then she started complaining about pain in her legs. She hopefully has gone through the worst of it, doctors say that it could take years to get rid of it. She has stayed mostly in the hospital since last year about August. She described chemo as someone ripping all her viens out. Its hard to imagine going through that, never mind having no hair to boot. She is slowly getting better after grueling stomache and bowl infections. She has a tube for her stomche sticking out of her skin. But all in all, she is home for now and we cant wait till she can be a kid again.
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Jeez that stinks. Well, aside from the Nursing home Ministry, the youth from my group visit a hospital for cancer kids once a month and give them gifts and play with them for the entire morning. It's so depressing before, during, and after the visit.
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(happy happy joy joy)
AAhhhhhhh a 15 year old kid making a Ren and Stimpy refefrence.
does my heart good *tear*
or did ya even know ya had done it ?anyways, Iv seen alot of shit at primary childrens medical, my son ha spent alot of time in there over diabeties when he was first diagnosed, then the pediatric cancer side of the hopkins cancer instatute for the cancer he ended up with last july, had that shit removed and now he wears a 8 inch long scar across his throat.
Iv seen too much bad shit, shit I hate to have in my head because its never going to go away. stay the fuck out of hopsitals if ya can, and run down the halls, dont look in teh rooms or at the other patients, I go I see who I came for and i get the fuck out, too much shit, too much shit. -
I had to respond to chance b/c of the Ren and Stimpy recognition...was a great show till they re-aired it and changed it..But I actually enjoy going there. I would like to do it more, but I would love to make those kids smile. TO bring them some enjoyment even with all their pain.....
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yes I love ren and stimpy, the old one not their "remakes".
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Its been remade?
christ I was still watching the old ones I bought on vhs years ago, I had no idea they were on air again. -
yeah it came on nickelodeon before and I guess it wasn't "appropriate" so they revised a few things
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Yeah, the remakes suck.X2....they do
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I won official ren and stimpy toys about 6 years ago...hehehe I love em!! They're so cool :grin:
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I don't go to hospitals... I can't. I've been in them too many times when sick, with my brother, my mother, and watching family members die. It takes all I've got to walk into one, it's too painful to go into them. Too many bad memories.
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I remember I was in the hospital with some type of stomach virus when I was about 6 years old. Some kid down the hall had an asthma attack and died. I can still close my eyes and hear his mother crying out when they told her he passed away. It is the kind of thing that will stick with me forever.Ever since then I absolutely avoid hospitals at all costs. My friend just had a baby, and I didnt even visit her until she came home.
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Thats so upsetting.. its really scary to think that can happen.. I used to have asthma attacks in my sleep when I was little and id wake up gasping for air.. and my mom would come in and give me my puffer and just sit with me crying.. That poor mother
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I have been in intensive care units with all my children, from a week, to 8 weeks with my daughter, and its heartbreaking to see the babies in there........my daughter has been in hospital a few times, and i hate seeing the other kids on the ward who are so poorly, bless them. It all seems to unfair.
