#1 because I expect there will be more in the future.
We are on the last day of the most recent hospitalization out of town. We were here for three weeks in April/May, 4 days in June, and 4 days in July.
For the first visit, we were in PICU for most of the visit. You expect activity, noise and lights in a place like that. But everyone speaks quietly. That’s part of their “motto” – quiet promote healing. The last three or four days were in a regular room in a Patient Care Unit. Our neighbor had already been there several days, or maybe weeks. They had a routine already set up for themselves which included many visitors, sometimes until midnight (oops, one of them was a staff member from a different Unit). Visiting hours end at 9PM. Quiet hours are 9PM through 8AM. NOT in this place. We had this experience every night we were there.
In June, our neighbors were respectful of quiet hours. However, the staff probably just forgot we were in the room. Normal daytime voices. Well, OK, this is their daytime, maybe.
This visit has been the worst. I “get” that a certain amount of noise is expected from children, I have children, but, here again, no one uses their indoor voices when another patient is sleeping, or trying to sleep.
I really can’t wait to get home and we have some control over our environment. I guess I’m spoiled living in an area where you can hear crickets and frogs at night. Where I can walk outside and the only light is the moon and I can see the stars.