I was in the hospital for about two weeks at the beginning of 2022. It was awful. The nurse would come in for evening meds and checks around 10-11 PM. When I

I was in the hospital for about two weeks at the beginning of 2022. It was awful. The nurse would come in for evening meds and checks around 10-11 PM. When I was lucky enough to have neighbors who weren't trying to die all night it was usually relatively quiet from midnight to 4 AM. Then things would start to pick up. Phlebotomists making rounds to draw blood before 5 AM. Morning meds between 5-6 AM. Nursing shift change at 7 AM. Doctors doing rounds mid morning. Breakfast mixed in there somewhere. Of course I couldn't actually _do_ anything all day except try to read or play around on my phone, so I spent a lot of time dozing. I wasn't so lucky for the first week of my stay. I was on IV meds that pushed my BP up significantly, to the point where every time the automatic hourly BP reading was taken it would set off alarms. During the day the charge nurse would usually silence the alarm (from the nursing station) immediately but at night they were understaffed (this was during a covid wave) and the nursing station often wasn't manned. So sometimes the alarm would sound for 20+ minutes. Every hour... all night... Eventually I found a sympathetic nurse who actually knew how to adjust the settings on the machine and disabled the alarm entirely. At least I didn't have to share a room. That would have been misery.