The hospital is its very own ecosystem, filled with unique species that all do differnet things. For example, you have attendings who make the decisions, you have the interns who are learning how to identify a health problem, you have x-ray techs who discover things that are hard to find, and you have nurses who will do everything they can to help you make it through this hard time. It is complicated but once you get an idea of how it works you understand why it is this way.

There is a lot to figure out when it comes to staying at the hospital. It is hard to know where to even begin. Once you know where to begin where do you get the unwritten rules. HERE! I pray this answers your question and helps you know what to expect as you experience you first hospital stay and the stays after that.

Every chronically ill patient has there first hospital experience story. They have to figure out how they are going to accept this. You reach a place that you never expected to be and coming to terms with that can be confusing. This is how my visit went and how I processed.