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Stimming whilst in a hospital bed?

DazeAndConfused

This may be a strange request, but I'm stuck in a hospital bed connected to oxygen. My day to day stim is to scratch my head or fiddling with my hair, when more agitated I will rock, bounce my feet or flap the hand. Unfortunately the other night I was also on a drip and couldn't easily get out of bed. At about 3am the nurses appeared to take an arterial blood sample from the wrist. I also happen to be super needle phobic, so got very agitated. It turns out that this type of test is much more painful than the conventional ones, to the extent they had to hold me down. As you might imagine I went into a bit of a meltdown after, but couldn't really find any comfort in the usual stims when in bed . Can anyone suggest something that might be soothing in that situation?

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  • The worst they could say is "no" ...maybe you could ask the ward team if it would please be possible for them to contact the Hospital Occupational Therapy Team (OT) to ask for help - they often use varieties of dense squishy balls stress-style balls and therapy hand putty (for hand exercises and to support stims of dementia patients.

    At school, I used to use a ball of Blu Tack.

    Failing that, a pony tail band / elastic band (as long as you don't have a problem with latex).

    Some hospitals also have access to a Learning Disabilities Liaison Team of specialist nurses who are happy to support Autistic people too.  They tend to be a resourceful "csn do" team!

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  • The worst they could say is "no" ...maybe you could ask the ward team if it would please be possible for them to contact the Hospital Occupational Therapy Team (OT) to ask for help - they often use varieties of dense squishy balls stress-style balls and therapy hand putty (for hand exercises and to support stims of dementia patients.

    At school, I used to use a ball of Blu Tack.

    Failing that, a pony tail band / elastic band (as long as you don't have a problem with latex).

    Some hospitals also have access to a Learning Disabilities Liaison Team of specialist nurses who are happy to support Autistic people too.  They tend to be a resourceful "csn do" team!

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