Sep 25, 2014 20:45
Summer Tempe Hospital visit for exhaustion, 11 days
I had to take an ambulance to the hospital for dehydration and exhaustion and my leg was bothering me so bad I thought I broke it so the paramedic gave me a shot of morphine, my gosh, wow! So we get to the hospital and there's a machine that goes beep when you say something and I got it to beep a few times until I decided to really have fun and shouted "I AM GOD!" *BAD BEEP*
I spent 11 days in a gold star room which was either or both because they thought I was autistic or suicidal. My hospital visit was the most insane thing to attempt to describe being crammed in with nurses and pheromones while they attempted to teach me manners and how to interact and listen to people or go on a date... yeesh. The last day, the bill was $16k and the staff was pissed at me for being a ward of the state for some reason and not liable for a cent.They would use non-verbal communication to seriously attempt to degrade, humiliate, mock me until the last minute.
All the same, half way through every-time I closed my eyes other patients started screaming that they saw pornography and for some reason every-time I closed my eyes people rioted over it. I had such a hard time sleeping, on so many pills I cracked my Adam's apple/voice-box yawning!
I'd find a light brown/auburn hair wrapped in my only pen and other quirks of misunderstanding where all the nurses involved were trying to make me talk. Truthfully, I first remember seeing my body from a third person perspective 2-3 days in and starved the whole time. I had never been in a hospital before and I was told to ask for anything and after 11 days I finally realized I could ask for a razor. I was wearing some undies with my smock that really showed off my ass and heard a male nurse talk about my "gift" where I can live my life looking how I want and not care if I am judged for my looks because I'm handsome. The nurses behaved radically differently and oddly, I could start hearing what they were thinking. The I.V. machine had been screaming obscenities, seriously damaging my ear, the entire time. At one point I tore everything out and started to walk out but was convinced to stay, in order to be yelled at by the head nurse about not appreciating my stay there.
Everything was going fine with the nurses until a head nurse heard me finally say something about a freedom seeking, desert dreaming lifestyle and she grilled me over being dangerous to their young minds. An eavesdropping nurse also overheard me uh... talk to myself in the only shower I was allowed to take and did a 180 exclaiming I just fucked up. Fucking up was being locked in a hospital with an untold number of women and their pheromones. I was both cordial and polite and it was my choosing if I was going to reveal myself and actually talk, possibly why they thought I was autistic and needed social lessons from the nursing staff. Seriously, tips on having meals with females on dates...
The neighbors took it upon themselves to be mean, one masturbated so the smell would noticeable because I corrected for feeling the heartbeat against the wall, but couldn't sleep. Another burped or farted or something. I got lectured for the adjacent room costing $2k a night and keeping people awake when I couldn't sleep. Early on, the eyedrops were missing and I poured antiperspirant in both of my eyes. Saline helped, but with the shouting in the hall that everytime I blinked pornography was seen on someone's eyelids I went without blinking for most of the time, just an observer, not grouchy or tired, not even confused, just a stop between yesterday and ... later.
I'm not mad, I thought describing 11 days would be more difficult but then, that's 11 days with no phone or anything to read or way to write and just beeps and people talking until the last day I could read minds. Whoops. /Origin story.