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What's the longest stay you've had in a hospital, and what was it for?

For me it was five days, for a severe gastrointestinal problem about six years ago.

Posted - August 7, 2016

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  • 13395
    Four days to remove upper right lobe of my lung; first stage cancer.
    That was last February. 56 years cigarette smoker.
      August 7, 2016 11:01 PM MDT
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  • Four days. Punctured lung.

      August 8, 2016 1:01 AM MDT
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  • 3934

    I've been pretty lucky to date.

    I stayed overnight once after an arthroscopic ankle surgery (in my early 20s).

      August 8, 2016 1:02 AM MDT
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  • 2758

    Three days for a surgically reconstructed left knee. Auto accident.

      August 8, 2016 1:23 AM MDT
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  • 2758

    Wow!  Glad you're still with us.

      August 8, 2016 1:23 AM MDT
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  • 130

    a week for a car crash

      August 8, 2016 2:25 AM MDT
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  • 10663

    I have never been admitted to a hospital.

      August 8, 2016 3:49 AM MDT
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  • Good it was caught early. Hope you've given up smoking.

    :)

      August 8, 2016 4:28 AM MDT
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  • Caused by a fall? My uncle punctured his lung a couple of years ago by falling and fracturing a rib which went through his lung. 

      August 8, 2016 4:30 AM MDT
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  • And may you stay lucky.

      August 8, 2016 4:31 AM MDT
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  •   August 8, 2016 4:32 AM MDT
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  • Thanks be to heaven, you came out of it.

      August 8, 2016 4:32 AM MDT
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  • 219

    Just over 3 weeks... I was on a life support machine and put into a drug induced coma. I nearly died..I was very lucky.

    I would rather not say the reason.

    Thank you.

      August 8, 2016 4:35 AM MDT
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  • I respect your privacy, cherryblossom. Thank heaven you're out of that ordeal, and doing better now.

      August 8, 2016 4:36 AM MDT
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  • 83
    It was for mental problems for six months.
      August 8, 2016 5:12 AM MDT
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  • 219

    Thank you.. :)

      August 8, 2016 5:14 AM MDT
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  • 53336
    I know I was in for 3 or 4 days when I was young (before age 12, I believe), but I can't remember what it was for.

    ~
      August 8, 2016 5:17 AM MDT
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  •   August 8, 2016 5:23 AM MDT
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  • 53336
    (It's the gowns; she's a bit too modest to let her cute little tush be seen in one if those.)
    ~
      August 8, 2016 5:34 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yup. It's fun to be here.
      August 8, 2016 7:19 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yeah I went to emergency because of chest pain, was no indication what caused chest pain but they discovered the lung tumor. Pain not associated with lung cancer until later stages.
      August 8, 2016 7:24 AM MDT
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  • All's well that ends well, thank heaven.

      August 8, 2016 8:51 AM MDT
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  • 33756
    5 days car wreck while pregnant. I crushed some vertebrae in my neck. I am fine and so is the baby...now grown with her own babies.
      August 8, 2016 10:31 AM MDT
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