:D
well you did get the message across in the end
Yes I had to cut her off in mid-stream and explain and on explaining what it was she exclaimed "Yes it is really loud. I can hear it. Its it really loud there too?" Yes it was loud enough to help keep me up all night and I did not need to go into the merits of the loud beepy fucking thing with her and would up the phone call and trundled back to bed and did my best to look fit and peppy so I could sign myself out. 
I hate hospitals.
yes. ive never stayed at hospitals, but even short visits creep me out.
well, in the end i did write a little heart surgery chapter.
a (very special) female character needs a little piece of aparatus attached, so
i decided to ekg her up, heart lung, and added my own "personal twist" to getting through the sternum, since - in my setting - she allready has a piece of machinery lodged through it:
i envisioned a little tong-thing, that would break lose each rib from the sternum itself, and lift the sternum right off, as a lid
in the spirit of the "touch-of-horror" i incude, she insisted on no anaesthetics, insteading getting a light sedative through a mask, w a nurse further calming her
in the end the sternum is _glued_ back on to the ribs, and the skin is stitched back in place :]
phobia.