Debate about cell phones in hospitals.

[sparks19]

In situations like my prior post?

When Satan Skis.

make calls to the kids every hour. step outside and give them an update and reassure them. Come back in and turn off the cell phone.

I must ask my grandmother how she ever dealt with my grandfathers hospitalizations with 4 boys and no cell phones.

or how my mom dealt with her hospitalizations (being a single mom) or how she dealt with her mothers hospitalizations (she had liver cancer) with two kids and no cell phones.

It can be done and is not a nessecity.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Wow! For thousands of years babies were born without doctors and anesthesia.....but I don't know if you think life was meant to be that hard? And babies were born without ultrasound....I'll ask my mother how she managed to birth four babies without all these modern conveniences.....

Ask ANYONE in the healthcare field...your suggestion that people can visit you instead of talk on the phone is simply contrary to good health. People visiting bring and take germs with them.

If you have a problem with cell phones...don't use one. If you are expected ZERO conversation to be taking place around you in a hospital (or many other places for that matter....) you may be in for a surprise.

[Lady's Human]

Sparks, If you think panicked children can be dealt with that easily, do you have some surprises coming.

[Muddy4paws]

I've always left my phone on in hosptials and doctors, I know a nurse who said its mainly the noise that will disturb people which is why they are asked to turn phones off. I think along as its on vibrate or silent and you dont make unessasary phone calls then there is nothing wrong with that.

[wombat2u2004]

make calls to the kids every hour. step outside and give them an update and reassure them. Come back in and turn off the cell phone.

I must ask my grandmother how she ever dealt with my grandfathers hospitalizations with 4 boys and no cell phones.

or how my mom dealt with her hospitalizations (being a single mom) or how she dealt with her mothers hospitalizations (she had liver cancer) with two kids and no cell phones.

It can be done and is not a nessecity.

Hahahahaha....Sparksy....you're dealing here with people who can't imagine life without the microchips....hehehehehehe....soon they'll be eating them to...lol
Wom

[sparks19]

Hahahahaha....Sparksy....you're dealing here with people who can't imagine life without the microchips....hehehehehehe....soon they'll be eating them to...lol
Wom

LOL soon we won't have to raise our own kids (we have already started since so many people think TV is a great way to keep your kids busy), drive our own cars, cook our own food, wash ourselves, etc etc.... we will just be big useless blobs of flesh.... with a microchip LOL they will be installed at birth. HAHAHAHA.

I can't imagine what would happen if suddenly the microchip disappeared. LOL people wouldn't know what to do with themselves. it reminds me of a simpsons episode.... Grandpa Simpson is a Walmart greeter and says that people are lost without a greeting... it then show's people repeatedly walking into the wall, a woman crying on the floor and a woman that just keeps jingling her change. I imagine it would look something like that. It would be like WE lost the microchip that keeps us going lol.

anyone remember the stamp? lol how about Pay phones... do they have those anymore?

I can't believe how reliant people are on a cell phone that they can't even turn them off inside a hospital that is full of sick and dying people. it's like asking them to remove their arm and half a leg. I'm amazed LOL. What would happen if they ended up in one of the hospitals that still don't allow cell phone use... would they request a transfer? LOL amazing.

I mean... I live over 8 hours from my family and 14 hours away from my husbands family. We talk once a week and we email sometimes. i call from my *gasp* home phone. I will not be calling them on my cell phone from the hospital. If they need updates my husband can step outside and make a call from his cell phone ... otherwise.... they will have to wait. if I am sick enough to be hospitalized chances are I am not up to phone chit chat.