My rant is something I forgot to mention in my recent hospital chronicles, and I don't know what brings it to mind two weeks later other than a general post-menstrual crabbiness exacerbated by a bad night's sleep. It involves the woman who was inserting my IV when I was admitted for the UTI. Mom was mentioning how my kidney stone had postponed my return to school in New Orleans, and the woman (I put her in her 50s, maybe early 60s) looked at Mom and said, "Oh, is there a special school there?"
I looked her dead in the eye and replied, with a bit of pissed in my voice, "Yes. It's one of the few places in the country with a Ph.D. program specifically for conservation biology." I only just managed not to tack on the end, "you bigoted, short-sighted, ableist bitch."
If she were 80 or 90, I could understand -- wouldn't make it right, but I'd know the social upbringing that had put it in her head. But this woman is not from a generation who should still be spouting that kind of BS. And she didn't even apologize -- just gave me a look that said she didn't quite believe me and left. I knew she was a callous bitch by the way she inserted my IV -- picked a vein and dug until she got it, no matter how much it hurt me -- but damn.
3 comments:
OMG! You really should have told her off! I can't believe people are SO stupid!
You should've asked her if she went to a special school for bigoted, short-sighted, ableists b*tches who can't properly insert IVs. But then, that probably would've been lost on someone of her intelligence level. I love people sometimes!
Jesus, gotta love "special" people like that. Reminds me a little of when I met some of the local Doms and they all but patted me on the head like they thought it was cute a girl was deluded enough to think she could be a dominant.
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