Last night, a male patient was coughing in the hallway outside my room.
A janitor, after running up to mop outside the women's restroom when I was in that restroom, has left 2 Wet Floor signs near each other in the lobby.
I just walked into the crisis unit from the hallway; an older, female staffperson was standing near the door, talking to the manager of the unit. When the staffperson saw me, she conspicuously wiped her nose with her finger and then gave a huge grin. She obviously thinks that my purpose for being at this unit is for her to amuse herself by sexually harassing me.
A male patient sitting next to me has coughed at me a few times.
The janitor is changing the trash bags, which have been overflowing since yesterday afternoon.
When the staffperson wiped her nose at me, I said "You work here?" She said "Yes." I walked away, sat down, and started writing. The manager, who witnessed all of this, just called me into her office to have a check-in. The first thing she said was "Are you ok? You seem on edge. Are you overwhelmed?"
A male patient just walked past and coughed at me.
The news is showing a story about "Lady Lions." There was an ad several minutes ago about "Go-getters who get things done." There was a news story about women who have "a Plan B man."
Copyright L. Kochman, September 26, 2014 @ 8:43 a.m.
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