Have you ever had to stay at a hospital as an inpatient only to become sicker than when you were first admitted?

This has not happened to me. My first hospital stay was three weeks but could have been much longer if I had gotten any infections from my accident. Thankfully, I didn't.

However, while there I did have to use this inhaler thing to prevent pneumonia. I think that happens when you lie in the bed in the hospital. It has something to do with the lungs activity while being sick.

Sorry I don't know more about it but I think the pneumonia in the hospital is common if you don't do something to prevent it. The inhaler looked like a tube with a ball in it. I had to inhale to make the ball move to the top of the tube.

I was required to do this several times a day. Therefore, I think something like that probably happened to your grandmother with the pneumonia. My second hospital stay was for delivery; no complications there.

Your son is a different story. I suspect that those were germs on the ward from other kids and by being there and putting hands or other things in the mouth, probably contracted it. This is by far not a medical opinion just a thought.

Perhaps with the pneumonia, that weakened his immune system at the time and allowed him to catch the other viruses easier. I don't know how common it is to catch other viruses while staying at a hospital but I suppose it is not out of the question. Hospitals are not sterile areas, only some parts and some equipment.

Well this relates but not as an initial hospital stay. My son ruptured his ACL and meniscus while skiing. He went into surgery a healthy child, and ended up nearly dying from complications.

The knee surgery seemed to go just fine. He was under the knife for a couple of hours and we took him home. We kept him on a recirculating ice water machine to keep the swelling down and a passive motion machine to help with the recovery.

The swelling didn't go down, however, but intstead the knee ballooned in size. Back to the hospital for a second surgery to flush out a massive infection from the first surgery. He was in the hospital for a few days and sent home on an IV antibiotic course for 6 - 8 weeks.At the six week mark he developed massive hives covering every inch of skin from the scalp down to his toes.

He had developed a life threatening allergic reaction to one of the antibiotics. Rushed him to the ER where they couldn't maintain a blood pressure. They were able to save his life but admitted him to the hospital yet again because of the danger of him sloughing off all of his skin.

It was a grim and scary time because they didn't hold much hope of his survival if that happened. By some turn of luck, he didn't lose all of his skin and is a normal and happy young man today. Looking back, he would have rather forgone the surgery and walked with a limp than to have gone through everything that he did simply because somebody didn't sterilize something correctly for the intial operation.

Modern medicine is a scary thing. Beware those seeking medical help and here's hoping you survive the cure.

Yes it sure has, and it makes sense because that's where all the sick people are.

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