Where do you go to find love?
I was just thinking to myself after being discharged from the hospital on yesterday. Where do you really find love, especially in this time when the church and God are “clearly” not it? My experience having to be hospitalized is never good for anyone, but you try to find the silver linings in just about anything these days. It was a little good / bad situation with my stay. I was able to meet some of my former students when I use to be a teacher, that were actually attending me in my check-in. The kids now progression in their individual fields was a very good thing to see. There were some really good bed side manner nurses, technicians, and doctors that attended to me, and that it what you should expect “wherever” you go. Here is the thing. I was treated pretty decently upon arrival, but once the hospital realized that my insurance was not going to be adequate, and that I had recently became unemployed, the looks of assistance turned to apprehension. Let me be clear. The nurses and doctors that were “nice” before, where just as nice and supportive after learning of the hardship. The difference was the interaction with those persons that either tried to demean your “status” and “respect” as a person or make you feel like they should not have to attend to you as a person. It was really disheartening to have a nurse think that just because you were a patient of a different color, you should not be someone on their “chart”. If you have carried yourself with integrity most of your life and have fallen on a hard time. That should never give someone else the ability to make you feel like this should be the place you give up your self worth. I really do think that there are an extremely amount of fantastic nurses and doctors that do above average job of providing the best service possible to whomever no matter what. But as in every profession there are and have been some rotten apples that find there way into the systems. When you are in some of the lowest strains in your life, it doesn’t help to be kicked at “emotional” and “racially”. When your an only child and already feel mostly ostracized from society, that’s not a good beginning. I would guess at this point the ongoing lack of security in no money available, no unemployment benefits, no “true” prospect of current job opportunity, and the food shortage is pretty “bleak”. Where do you find love, if your the wrong color?
