Ok Saturday I bought a necklace that is just a rainbow dog tag. Last night me and my friend went out to the local bar and I decided to wear it. The short version is I sliced my thumb open with my pocket knife while I was there bad enough that I need to go to the hospital. I arrived at the hospital and after they checked me in I went to the back. A few minutes later a nurse arrived wanting to see how bad it was. I know it is just smart practice to wear gloves around body fluids but this woman saw my necklace stared at it and actually took two steps back. Then stammered that she wanted me to squeeze it so she could see how deep it was because she didn't have gloves on. Yea the gloves were one foot to her right on a wall rack. Again I understand the whole body fluid thing but the way she physically stepped back and stammered when she said my necklace... Yup, that is a real professional right there.
Ignorance. I am a medical professional, and I actually work with HIV+ patients. You glove and that is that. No biggie.
Nice... I don't like other peoples' blood, but if I have access to gloves and other protection as needed, there is no reason to treat it like radioactive waste. I used to be much worse than I am now. That changed when I got into my motorcycle accident and needed a blood transfusion. I didn't even want to touch someone else's blood before that, and there I was laying there watching a whole bag of blood run into my vein. Skeeved me out quite a bit, but I felt so much more powerful afterward I wanted them to give me another unit! I felt like a vampire. I like how people assume HIV is a gay infection though, and that straight people don't spread it. I wonder if she does that to hetero couples too...
That behaviour is deserving of a severe reprimand, or dismissal if it's not the first time. I'm sorry that happened to you. Do you think you'd be able to report it?
