Admission day

So finally the admission date comes around. I had been told to wait until two pm and then someone would call to tell me what was happening. Three came and I decided to call, they still can't find a bed, at five they phone back and say you might as well come in to page ward although a bed still hasn't been found. I don't head in until 7 when I get there I am told that originally a bed was found on the other side of the hospital but that someone had just been discharged so I could stay he which is the digestive system ward.
I wait another couple of hours in the day room with a sweeping vista over Westminster  and Big Ben and the London eye.  Nurse comes in with a goody bag, two protein drinks, two pre op drinks and two sachets of picolax. Lovely!
I bolt down the picolax and then try one of the the fortisip drinks...tropical... Yuk!!!!! Unpalatable I don't make the black current either but they manage to find a caramel shake one, very nice.
Finally they lead me to the ward and the first thing that hits me is the stench!!!! I guess of people with wounds and no baths for a little while, it was truely awful. I immediately just wanted to go home, but instead I sat on the bed and unpacked. I ended up in tears I was hoping for something more like I experienced at Lewisham the wards there are fine but theses beds are too close together and as I said the smell!
I asked for the curtains to be drawn and after a while I was much better, managed to tether my I pad to my phone but it means that I will be constantly going over my data, I cannot believe that the hospital doesn't have wi fi access for the patients. They have one of those prepay tv,s over the bed but I will still to my I pad.
Lights went out at 11 and then this woman in the bed at the end started,  nuuuurse eye please oh dear no nurseesss in a very winy woe is me tone. Constantly!!!! For an hour nuuuuurse, however much sympathy you have for someone who has had surgery it wears thin as does her voice.
I have another picolax and wait for the results nothing as yet, I have been given an undulating bed I assume for pressure sores and to keep me moving after the op, it's like being on a boat! So now I am going to try and catch a bit of sleep I am to be woken at 6am if the bowels don't get me first for my pre op drinks, and then the old me will depart and this new model will appear nuuuuuurssseeee!!!