Kilted in the hospital?

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

This is why I try to avoid manual labor!
Get well soon!!
SIWC

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Thanks all! Feeling much better, except that now I have to make a business trip to Chicago next week! Hey AA, is the weather above freezing yet?

[Tartan Hiker]

When I went in for knee surgery ast summer I wore an SWK Wallace. Afterwards my leg was wrapped and braced straight...no way I could get into anything bifurcated. Strapped on the kilt and I was good to go. The nurse helping me commented on how hard it is to get men into their pants after that kind of surgery. "Everyone should be required to bring one of those!" said she.

Honestly I wasn't in any condition to worry about getting my peats right as I got into the car.

I hope you're kickin' high soon, Rob.

[Riverkilt]

Hope you're back to par soon.

Haven't been kilted as a patient. Think if I was I'd take a SportKilt to lounge in for the softness....but we have something in common that would get me a TMI warning too.

I have been to the hospital kilted a lot, to donate blood (9 gallons to date), for other routine business or work, and for that long week when my mother was dying last September. Looking back, was sort of in a daze then, wore my chocolate UK the entire time. Was just easier.

But, if I were the patient, probably my gathered SportKilt in Macdonald tartan for softness and not having to worry about any pleats.

Ron

[auld argonian]

Thanks all! Feeling much better, except that now I have to make a business trip to Chicago next week! Hey AA, is the weather above freezing yet?

Is the weather above freezing? Hey...I just put the ice fishing gear away. Looks like we'll finally get oot of the fifties and into the seventies next week.

Hope the leg is better. I was very sorry to hear that you were having a problem. All those weird microorganisms down there in Florida...see, winter is good for you: it kills off enough of those nasty bugs.

Fer sure let me know when and where you'll be. I'll PM the phone numbers to you and please do the same. I don't know if you're going to be getting into the central city or not but I'm still looking for kilted reinforcements to go check out The Duke of Perth up on Clark Street...the menu sounds intriguing and the whisky menu looks extensive. It'd be good to see you.

Best

AA

[oregonscot]

I think a kilt would be perfect!

here is why....

in most hospitals I've been in, they make you wear those funny gowns where your backside hangs out. Wearing a kilt allows the doc access to everything but the midsection where the kilt is affixed...and unless you do somersaults down the hall, no one anywhere will know what you are wearing.

Also, nurses love a man in a kilt. I wore mine for about half the stay when my son was born. We had a great many nurse visits, and incredible service while there.

oh, and I hope you get better very quickly!

I don't know what the reason was that you were in the hospital, but as a nurse on a surgical unit,we have alot of abdominal surgeries and a kilt covering the midsection is very unpractical. It would just get in the way. There are all sorts of body fluids as well that could possibly stain your kilt and that my friend would be a sin. Oh and by the way, thanks for the compliment about nurses, even if some of us are men. Damn, I just love a man in a kilt.

[Mr. MacDougall]

As a nurse in a (mostly) cardiac ward, I'll repeat some of the things other people have said. I don't think the kilt would be very practical for wear in the hospital, which mostly means in bed. It would be a shame to get even a casual kilt contaminated with the fluids that generally result from cardiac surgery, after all.

On the other hand, I don't think there would be anything wrong with tossing, say, a SportKilt in your chair to wear when you get up to walk the hall. It would be easy to fasten the velcro on, and it would solve the Problem of the Gown, which is another TMI issue waiting to happen. Plus, it would make getting ready to leave the hospital relatively simple. I have been known to curse under my breath when trying to help patients get ready to leave.

And yes, we nurses have seen everything you have to offer before, and no, we weren't impressed by it then, either. 8)