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VIDEO - HERSTORY: Irene Shares If Staying At CTCA Was Like A Hospital

Irene explains if she would compare her experience at CTCA to a normal hospital stay.

Irene:
No. When I went in for my surgery, I waited in a room where there was a chair, an easy chair and my husband waited with me and I was wearing this nice little gown. And, the one thing I remember about hospital stays is they are always cold, but this place has this bare feet or something that they put this little vacuum in here to warm you up if you’re cold and it was the warmest feeling that they did with this gown that I was wearing. They warmed my body inside the gown and that was sort of the beginning of, “This is a hospital stay?”

They give you what you want to eat, you can ask for whatever you want to eat when you are able to eat. And when I got ready to leave the hospital, and I was only here for a day, some group came by and gave me a huge bag. And it wasn’t the spittoon and the foot wash, the plastic stuff you normally get when you go to hospital; a beautiful white terry cloth robe, nice bottles of lotion and deodorant and shave cream and this was my going home gift, not the leftovers of what I used in the hospital. That was incredible. And then when I got home someone called me to see if I got home okay, if everything was okay. This place is incredible.

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