Break It Up
“I drive around the city to three hospitals just to be annoying, but they end up at Presbyterian with me, trailing along like a convoy of baby ducks following the big, red mother duck, Libby. I hate them. I hate them all.
The APD meets me at the entrance, though, and they form a wall of uniforms and muscle between me and the cameras. Wow, what a waste of their resources. My guilt edges up another notch.
And once I’m inside the air-conditioned interior of the hospital, with its industrial... tile floors and tessellated foam tile ceiling, everyone stares, and I do mean everyone. Nurses in scrubs, patients in wheelchairs, families waiting with small children (some of whom point). So many times in high school I thought everyone was looking at me. Turns out I was wrong. It never felt anything like this. Every comforting thought I told myself about how not everyone reads the papers flees my mind. The world knows. Mothers are telling the story to their babies in cradles.MoreLess
The APD meets me at the entrance, though, and they form a wall of uniforms and muscle between me and the cameras. Wow, what a waste of their resources. My guilt edges up another notch.
And once I’m inside the air-conditioned interior of the hospital, with its industrial... tile floors and tessellated foam tile ceiling, everyone stares, and I do mean everyone. Nurses in scrubs, patients in wheelchairs, families waiting with small children (some of whom point). So many times in high school I thought everyone was looking at me. Turns out I was wrong. It never felt anything like this. Every comforting thought I told myself about how not everyone reads the papers flees my mind. The world knows. Mothers are telling the story to their babies in cradles.MoreLess
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