*shivers*
Kind of know what you mean second hand.

Over Crimbo 1999 I and my girlfriend (now Mrs Vambo the 2nd) managed to catch extremely nasty chest infections. I was admitted to one hospital the day before Christmas eve and spent the lonliest most miserable Christmas imaginable there (despite the brill doctors & nurses).

Just as I was getting better after mahoosive intravenous antibiotics, my girlfriend went down with the self-same bug and was more or less a few hours from death and was rescued by my brother & his wife calling around on the offchance.

So the future Mrs Vambo was admitted to a different hospital. Cue me (nearly recovered) discharging myself and going to see the beloved.

She was over the worst of it and had a determination to get better. So great was her determination to get better that she ate her lunch with the corpse of her neighbour just feet away with just a curtain screening it from view.
( Vambo, Fri 29 Feb 2008, 22:55, Reply)