because they wanted to see how i would react without it.
if i dare to question what a doctor or nurse does, they frequently tell me they have to go and take care of other patients who are really sick, not like me.
even when i talk in my “nice white lady” voice they still treat me and call me “an angry black girl”. girl. i’m a 40 year old woman but i get treated like a child.
it’s hard to be in the hospital surrounded by doctors and nurses and yet feel abandoned by the medical staff around you.
this month alone 25 people have died from sickle cell in the us. it’s 