porshiepoo
29-Sep-07, 17:21
I have to tell you about the most embarrassing incident during our recent stop at RHSC.
By the time my daughter had had her xrays etc and we were shown over to the parents accommodation it was quite late so we just dropped our bags in our room (lovely 3 beds) and my husband and I rushed back to our daughter on the ward.
It was around 10.30 that we managed to leave her for the night and make our way to bed.
The bathroom was a shared one for the whole unit so hubby went into the room while I went to the loo. Now I thought I could hear him chatting to someone (he's soooo loud) but wasn't quite sure so you could imagine my suprise to find that hubby had let himself into our room to find another lady, a rather large lady, in her pj's reading a 'heat' magazine in bed.
Hubby had thought he'd gotten the wrong room and was waiting for this ladies other half to jump him but nope, she assures us we're in the right room we're just sharing for the next night (or so!) with her.
Well, I didn't know what to say. Neither did my husband. I could see he was fidgeting over near his bed looking really uncomfortable and I knew he was thinking about the fact that he wears absolutely zilch to bed. :lol:
I'm sitting on the bed dazed waiting for Jeremy Beadle to jump out while this lady is happily chatting away in her bed! The situation was just so bizarre.
Eventually I realised what hubby's problem was and chucked him some pj bottoms that I'd packed just in case. (must be the old sixth sense).
He looks at me really relieved and legs it to the bathroom while I'm still sitting on the bed wondering what to do next. By this point I'm all up for a night in the car, I mean this woman could be anyone.
Eventually we both get into our beds in complete silence not daring to look at each other else we'd laugh.
The worst of it was I'd bought myself a big bag of big chocolate buttons to eat in bed while reading my mag but I didn't dare eat them cos I knew I'd have to offer her one (hubby would at least know better than to expect one. lol) and by the looks of the sheer enormity of this woman she'd take a blinkin handful. So there sat my buttons all night on the side table just taunting me.:lol:
I managed to drop off to sleep but then heard hubby getting up, he felt so awkward he couldn't sleep and went and sat downstairs at the kitchen table.
Then this woman kept me awake all night with the most loud, god awful snoring I have ever had the misfortune to hear in my entire life, it was bone shattering. I imagine the whole unit heard it - cringe!!!
The next morning I got up at about four and grabbed my clothes as quietly as I could, legged it to the bathroom and changed.
We had a few words to say to the support staff at the unit the next day.
Apparrantly they hadn't realised hubby would be there else they wouldn't have let her share the room, they thought I was a single mum! Besides the point I think, I know we're all in the same boat there but it makes a worrying time all the more fretful if you're worried some strangers going to pop in, undress, leave their monstrous bra and knickers for all to see and climb into a bed next to you.
The funny thing is though that I was going to stay on the ward with my daughter that first night. Imagine how awkward that would have been the next day when hubby explained he'd spent the night with some strange woman. lol.
We can laugh about it now but it was really worrying at the time.
By the time my daughter had had her xrays etc and we were shown over to the parents accommodation it was quite late so we just dropped our bags in our room (lovely 3 beds) and my husband and I rushed back to our daughter on the ward.
It was around 10.30 that we managed to leave her for the night and make our way to bed.
The bathroom was a shared one for the whole unit so hubby went into the room while I went to the loo. Now I thought I could hear him chatting to someone (he's soooo loud) but wasn't quite sure so you could imagine my suprise to find that hubby had let himself into our room to find another lady, a rather large lady, in her pj's reading a 'heat' magazine in bed.
Hubby had thought he'd gotten the wrong room and was waiting for this ladies other half to jump him but nope, she assures us we're in the right room we're just sharing for the next night (or so!) with her.
Well, I didn't know what to say. Neither did my husband. I could see he was fidgeting over near his bed looking really uncomfortable and I knew he was thinking about the fact that he wears absolutely zilch to bed. :lol:
I'm sitting on the bed dazed waiting for Jeremy Beadle to jump out while this lady is happily chatting away in her bed! The situation was just so bizarre.
Eventually I realised what hubby's problem was and chucked him some pj bottoms that I'd packed just in case. (must be the old sixth sense).
He looks at me really relieved and legs it to the bathroom while I'm still sitting on the bed wondering what to do next. By this point I'm all up for a night in the car, I mean this woman could be anyone.
Eventually we both get into our beds in complete silence not daring to look at each other else we'd laugh.
The worst of it was I'd bought myself a big bag of big chocolate buttons to eat in bed while reading my mag but I didn't dare eat them cos I knew I'd have to offer her one (hubby would at least know better than to expect one. lol) and by the looks of the sheer enormity of this woman she'd take a blinkin handful. So there sat my buttons all night on the side table just taunting me.:lol:
I managed to drop off to sleep but then heard hubby getting up, he felt so awkward he couldn't sleep and went and sat downstairs at the kitchen table.
Then this woman kept me awake all night with the most loud, god awful snoring I have ever had the misfortune to hear in my entire life, it was bone shattering. I imagine the whole unit heard it - cringe!!!
The next morning I got up at about four and grabbed my clothes as quietly as I could, legged it to the bathroom and changed.
We had a few words to say to the support staff at the unit the next day.
Apparrantly they hadn't realised hubby would be there else they wouldn't have let her share the room, they thought I was a single mum! Besides the point I think, I know we're all in the same boat there but it makes a worrying time all the more fretful if you're worried some strangers going to pop in, undress, leave their monstrous bra and knickers for all to see and climb into a bed next to you.
The funny thing is though that I was going to stay on the ward with my daughter that first night. Imagine how awkward that would have been the next day when hubby explained he'd spent the night with some strange woman. lol.
We can laugh about it now but it was really worrying at the time.