Great news about the surgery, sorry to hear about the food.
Could be that's their way of discouraging lengthy hospital stays and
discharge appeals.
But, hey ... even a crappy Thanksgiving will seem like a relative
cornucopia of epicurean treasures after all that.
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On 11/23/2010 7:53 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
Made it successfully through my surgery and have recovered enough to
be on my own again. I'm not experiencing any real pain post-op, and
just a low level irritation from the catheter. That's supposed to come
out about a week from now, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it
until then.
The people at the VA Hospital in Durham, NC were wonderful. The only
complaint I have is with the food and I don't blame the Durham VAMC
for that.
They closed down the hospital kitchen a couple of years back and the
food is out-sourced to some company up in Virginia. Cooked twice a
week, trucked in & held in storage until heated to serve to the
patients. It was the most god-awful tasting and smelling crap I have
ever encountered, including airline food.
Although, I think it's the same catering company.
Anyway, the taste and smell was so bad I'd start vomiting every time I
tried to eat. I finally managed to choke down a few tiny bites and
figured out to hang on to the juice pack & crackers.
I'd make it a part of the contract for this sort of outsourced
catering that the corporate executives and board board of directors of
the company doing the catering be required to eat their every meal
from the menus they provide to the VA.
Bet the quality would improve drastically. PDQ!
Anyway, I'm up and around and more or less mobile and on the way back
to normal. Gonna close this right now, gotta go chase some kids off my
lawn. ;-D
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