I am a 17 year old boy I am in the hospital for leukemia, I am really bored and I need some ideas to pass time

Question

Each time that I come in, I am in for about a month each time. I get really bored, really fast. If anyone has any ideas on how to pass the time, please share them. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Read a book... God bless you and good luck.

Answer 2

Date is the operative word here. If you mean go to a movie, dance or burger then that's cool. If you mean is it ok to do the dirty hula together, not a good idea. I can hear it now only 3 years difference, now 3 years if he was 21 and you were 18, not a big deal. If he was 35 and you were 25 I still would see no problem as long as you both were comfortable with it. I think that 17/14 or 18/15 that 3 years is like 10 or 12 years for normal situations just to many things taht could happen. When he puts your name on his bank account or marriage license that will be a big deal.

Answer 3

Can you use a computer in the hospital? Because I find Yahoo Answers really fun. Some people do it all day. Like your question - you get so many great answers from people all over the world. Why don't you think up some things you've always wondered about, and ask the world to answer. You could start by asking if anyone else has had to stay for long times in the hospital, and what they did about it! I like what that person said who suggested you visit other people - you could start writing down people's stories of how they got sick, or where they are from. Good luck!

Answer 4

Yeah. I hear you!

My son was diagnosed at 17 with stage IV abdominal sarcoma and spent the first 8 months taking chemotherapy in the hospital. I usually stayed with him to keep him company. Do you have that option? It really helps pass the time to have someone to talk to.

He was also able to get a laptop computer so that he could play games, watch movies, go online and talk to friends, or do online gaming. The laptop was a huge hit!!

He also had an Ipod that he loaded with his favorite music. He'd plug into that and sometimes just sleep. If you like books, you can also download books onto the Ipod and listen to them.

Sometimes he would bring his gaming system (Playstation or Nintendo) and hook it up to the TV in the room. He brought his own games (but the children's room also had games he could borrow).

Do you have access to a digital camera or digital movie camera? Some kids like to make photo journals of their stays in the hospital. (make sure you get permission if you take someone elses picture though)

Become friendly with the staff. My son enjoyed some great talks with many of them.

Go for walks in the hallway (ask the staff for a pedimeter so you can see how far you walk).

Other options are to visit the Teen room (if you are in a pediatric hospital). You can probably meet some other kids your age there. Check to see if there is a gaming room or large screen TV for movies.

Anyway, I know what you're going through. Hang in there. Hopefully you'll be home before you know it. My son was able to convince his oncologist to allow an additional 8 months of chemo at HOME. The nurses came to the house and he had his chemotherapy here. Cut down on the boredom greatly.

Good luck.

Answer 5

Well, now that you have discovered/stumbled into Yahoo! Answers, I don't think you will have the time to be bored again.

If you *do* become bored with this mental masturbatory activity, you might consider learning caricature drawing, and do sketches of the hospital staff. The ones you like you can make attractive, the ones you dislike, you can make look like a monkey, or other animal. They sell books on the subject. Ask you mom or a friend to pick one up for you, along with a sketchpad, good sketch pencils and erasers. You can lose yourself in that for hours on end.

I had to spend a year in bed, some in home, some in hospital, when I was sixteen, and actually got pretty good at it

Answer 6

Instead of just writing "stupid" things on paper( like someone suggested), (what a waste of your time)...if you felt up to it you could write about your disease and the experience of it while you are in the hospital. I'm sure there are ppl who would be very interested in reading "your" very own story and experience with this. Even if you just write a little everyday it would be something to add to "your" book. Buy a nice notebook and start journaling in it about it all. From being diagnosed with the disease, the experience of treatments, good days, bad days, etc. Any and everything would give ppl the idea of the experience that you are going through and many ppl would very much appreciate your writings. I think it's a great idea and a very productive one. I believe it will even help you to write down these things and make you feel better. You can always go back and read what you have journaled and it may give you better understanding of yourself and your disease. Just an idea. Hope you decide to do that. It would be so helpful to young ppl your age to read up on something like that, especially if they have been newly diagnosed with the same disease. It would give them some insight to the disease and possibly what to expect. Good luck. Get well soon, and my prayers are with you and your family.

Answer 7

I'm sorry you have to go through that. I hope you will be feeling better soon, but in the mean time, here are some suggestions I hope will help; read about subjects that interest you, play cross word puzzles, do homework, watch videos, play a board game with another patient, visit other patients unable to get out of bed, ask friends and family to visit you, write emails or letter or cards to the special people in your life, make a list of things you want to do when you graduate from school, what you want to do on your next vacation and visualize your body healing.

I hope this helps. If that isn't enough, you can always email me, I like to correspond with people. Take care, get well!

Answer 8

You are so brave!!! I had a hard time being in a treatment session that only lasted 4 hours, I can't imagine being away from my home for a month! One good way to keep yourself busy is to try and do things for others. Whenever we're going through a really hard time it's easy to focus on ourselves. There's so much more joy in doing things for others. Maybe you can find some of the younger kids going through the same thing and be "big brother" to them. I bet you'll find that they help you sometimes more than you help them. Reading is also a fun way to pass the time. I'm reading the Lord of the Rings which is so much better on paper than it was on film!! Are you creative? Draw, write, sketch. Keep a praise journal. That's just a way for you to be able to look at the positive things going on in your life in the midst of all the negative.

Hope I've helped. Keep up the fight. I'm pulling for you!!!!

Answer 9

I don't know if I can help, but playing card games helps to pass time and you can include others. Board games or hand held video games.

I don't know what kind of guy you are so I don't know if you would be interested in reading books to the younger kids who would look up to you in your ward. If you are getting bored and you can read and write imagine how lonely or bored they are when their parents are not around.

I hope I helped. Can you paint or draw/sketch pictures. I reall.y hope your treatment is successful and you are healed completely. You sound like a very brave person and I will pray for you Mate.

Answer 10

books video games and shows cards home work ugh
read the bible . write something maybe a story or a diary
if your allowed to get up and move about then just try to make some friends there.
phone your friends and family invite some friends to come visit you if its allowed .
write to some of them too .
all the rest of the things i can think about i am sure you already have done .
except this one imagine your body is at war each cell some are good cells say white cells and some are bad ones say the cancer cells just imagine the war in and direct it of coarse make sure that your good guys win each time or at least win the war .
i will pray for you and i hope you pray as well .

Answer 11

I am so sorry to hear that. You should ask someone to pick you up some magazines and if there is a T.V. in the room then put that on. Ummm, you can also read books,play electronic mini games,ask a friend or relative or even a doctor to play a card or board game w/ you. And lots of other things.

I hope you will get well soon!!!