Originally Posted by
Sangye
Exactly. Very rarely will they let you stay just to keep an eye on things. On different occasions I've had massive lung hemorrhage, been filled with uncountable blood clots, had severely elevated intracranial pressure, had pneumonia while immune-compromised, etc... and I've never been admitted for longer than 8 days! It's made for a very rough transition home, since the minute I'm feeling better they discharged me. There is no time to start walking around the unit in order to regain strength or anything. So I go from being bed-bound for a week to having to function living alone with 3 pets.
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