I can not believe this just happened.
My ‘neighbour’, the woman in the bed next door in this 2-bay room has picked a fight with me about having the light above my bed on.
A bit miffed, I asked her if she was actually asking me to turn it off? (It was 9.20pm). I told her I was waiting for assistance to get to the bathroom (’cause I can’t walk!) and I would switch it off when I came back. I went to the bathroom, had a sook with the nurses and returned, pulling her curtains closed as I shuffled past on my roller/walker thing. I turned off the overhead light, but before my machines were even plugged back in, she went on the attack again.
The light she was now angry about was on the machines providing me with drugs including pain relief!!
Incredulous, I hit the call button for the nurses. As one entered, I stifled tears as this woman told me she ‘couldn’t possibly sleep with the light on, she was in pain and had such-and-such disease.’ This was obscene. All I could say was ‘do you really want to go there?!’ I covered my head with a pillow as the nurse calmly explained it was a share room, don’t fight, we had to try and get on etc. etc.
She’d had her TV blaring all afternoon, while I had visitors…. No-one complained. Clearly we are both sick, otherwise we wouldn’t be in here.
As I appealed for a little more respect due to that obvious fact, the nurse exited and my neighbour promptly started snoring!
Sweet dreams💤
Encore Performances 
Ah…the joys of sharing a hospital room. I begged for a private room when I had a colon resection. Nope, even though my insurance would have paid for it. Just nothing available. I had an adorable roomie. She sang the song of her people every night by snoring and during the day she moaned at two minute intervals. I know this because, as I was short on things to do, I timed her.
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