i tend to think that some of our crazy shithouse patients aren’t necessarily the most disturbing of all of the patients that we have. i also think that, as opposed to other doctor’s offices, we have a much different relationship with our patients, especially since we see them so routinely. we know a lot more about their lives, they might know a lot more about ours, and we may be a little less formal in our approach to them, instead of having to look down on a clipboard to have to spell or even remember what their name is.
patients also do us favors. probably because at whatever point in their treatment, we will be treating them for free because either their insurance company from whatever accident they were in doesn’t want to pay us anymore and we are waiting to litigate the balance (which we will not see all of) or because their insurance company doesn’t reimburse us for anywhere near what it costs for us to treat them, and so they might be nice to us every once in a while.
and, i guess, since we have patients who have been there forever, they think that they kind of run things. that they are in charge. that they are buddy buddy and can say whatever they want to us.
but…i don’t know when it is ever okay to say to someone that isn’t actually your friend, “you are a slut. you little slut.” and, yes, i know it is mostly because he is currently imagining himself with my office manager (and friend) naked and fucking in his brand new bed (breaking it in) and is therefor getting more into it by bringing the dirty talk into real life 3D with technicolor to get her reaction so he can figure it into his fantasy, but…seriously. would you walk into your doctor’s office, on a day that it is closed because you are helping another one of us out with a computer problem, and call a girl who is always nice to you a slut? would you walk into any office anywhere and call someone a slut?
what the fuck is wrong with people?
and my manager just laughed it off, because she knows as well as i know that he really didn’t mean anything bad by it, that he was really just trying to get his jollies or whatever…but the fucking nerve of some people!!! and he makes comments like this all of the time and..seriously? you dont talk to people or treat them that way. at least have some respect for us because we’re females and you are a nice guy who doesnt want to be an asshole.
some days…i just cant take it.
i can’t take that there are people who think that they can say or do whatever they want. i cant stand how i would have so rather been at the beach today than anywhere else, but wound up working, then sleeping, and that’s about it.
i don’t know why it happens. i really dont. people ask me what’s wrong, or if there is anything going on that is upsetting me, and i dont know what to tell them. i don’t know how to explain that it really isnt just one thing, that it’s everything, and that no…nothing has really changed, but that is exactly part of the problem.
i don’t know how to tell people that i dont see it coming. becuase it isn’t a monster looming in the darkness. it is a monster that is as bright and wonderful as sunlight…so it chameleons itself and swallows me at the most unsuspecting of times. a monster as bright as sunlight that clamps its mouth around me and refuses to let me out. i just have to play the waiting game.
in the morning, i dont want to get out of bed. during the day i get dizzy and feel light in the head and i worry about everything. it’s crazy. the thoughts that scream through my mind so loud that i can’t think and i can’t see and i can’t concentrate and i want to scream just as loud so i can find that equilibrium that will make everything clear and alright.
but i don’t. i stare and i yawn and i smile, because everyone wants me to smile. everyeone wants me to be the me that they are used to. and i oblige, because that’s what i do.
is it true? did it go that far? it is one hundred percent true and written from my point of view and yes, it did go that far. and you don’t even know how far it went yet, because i sure as hell know that he isnt far enough into it to know that i swallowed a bottle of pills and that there is a darkness that blossoms inside of me so beautifully perfect it’s like fresh ink for a rorshack that i will only lie about when asked what it is that i see. i was fresh and clean and white as a piece of paper and the ink spilled from my center, dripping out of my eyes and ears and mouth and…i’m a bit of a mess right now.
a bit of a mess.
but that’s alright. things run their course.