Hospital Tales (One Shots)

Looks

(No warning)

Not a very interesting story but just insight of things that usually happen to me, and what used to happen

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Now, we are all human so I understand the staring at something that is "unknown" to you or out of the norm.

Those looks I usually handle being a smartass, which I wouldn't do that if you just ask me what's wrong.

My favorite one is an instant karma...

One time, my mom and I were going to publix. I was in my wheelchair, wearing a short sleeve shirt and had my bangs pushed back.

So, you can see the psoriasis on my arms and my forehead. Which I used to be REALLY self conscious about but now could really give two fucks.

Anyway, I was just getting settled in my chair and I can feel eyes on me.

Now, do I automatically yell at people that start looking at me? No. But when you're literally eye fucking me? Then I gotta say something.

I look next to us and this lady is there by her car. Just zoned out. I wait...

2mins pass, still staring. That may not seem like a lot but stare at something, anything for 2mins straight.

My go-to response is just to say "Hi" or "Hello" usually snaps people out of what I guess is my "enchanting" beauty (cough)

She doesn't say anything, just looks down. I look at my mom who is already annoyed because she knows if I say "hello" to a random person they were staring.

I look at her and just shake my head because knowing my beautiful mother she was gonna bite that woman's head off. She's worse than me.

Couple mins later she's staring again, at this point im letting it go. She looks like an older lady. im not yelling at a older woman.

My mom is NOT on the same page...

"She's staring so fucking hard, should take a god damn picture. It'll last a whole lot fucking longer" glaring at the lady.

At this point the lady starts to walk towards publix and so do we. She snaps her head around while walking straight and is still staring at me.

Guess she wanted one last look.

Right when she faces straight she smacks her face into a concrete pillar gets a nose bleed.

Did I laugh? Yes. Did I feel bad? No. Judge me if you want.

Those looks I know how to deal with, there were some I didn't know what to do...

I don't have a set age for this story because it happened A LOT off and on.
So the ages are 11-15

There is this beautiful thing in the hospital called Whirlpool

It's a sterile bathtub with jets. My sessions included medical grade bacterial soap. To help my skin and take off the extra dead skin.

I would go 3 times a week, Mon-Wed-Fri.

So, it was a routine. Go to the hospital. Take a whirlpool bath and leave. Sometimes I could walk in but I always left in a wheelchair and I'll explain why.

To begin, I always wore a hospital gown in the tub. So I change and get ready. The tub is already filled and I get in. The nurse comes in puts the soap and starts the jets.

Now, the bath is about 30mins but Im in that room for almost 2hrs.

They mix all 5 of my prescription creams in a big jar of vaseline and lather my arms, legs, back, stomach in a layer of cream (yes, I hate the feeling)

Then they take gauze and wrap each leg and arm twice, top it off with kotex medical adhesive wrap. After, they line my stomach and back with gauze pillow pads and secure it with a big fishnet sleeve.

That's the reason for the wheelchair even during the times I could walk. Can't exactly move with wrapped legs.

When Im done its about 2pm and the lobby is busy, people that walk by that lobby know what it's used for and those Looks begin...

When I see those looks I smile and shake my head because I know what they are thinking but its not true

The looks are always the same... Sympathy and worry for me
Anger and disgust towards my mom

We never know what to do with those looks because of where we are. It does look bad.

The whirlpool is located in burn unit

A/N

Whirlpool therapy, or hydrotherapy, is one of the oldest adjuvant forms of treatment for wounds still in use today. It was originally used in pain management, but later found a use in wound management, particularly in the management of burn patients.

Even my mom would start to feel bad because of the looks she got. Not because they were directed at her but because they thought she could do that to her child.