• I started singing a little song in the hospital lobby, wearing their stupid gowns even though they tried to stop me
    I sang "come on now we're all crazy, you won't let us show no individual will, but I will, oh I will, Oh yea I really, really will..."

    Stop disrupting the peace, it's time to take you're meds! Kimberly? KIMBERLY!"

    "I'll just, keep making music in this hospital floor, see, I am, taken against my will, so I'll run right out this door, if you sing like me then I'll know you'll understand, first use your dreams and memories and then, come sing like me, oh yea yea yea yea.... yea yea yea yea"

    The other patients clapped their hands, and some of them were already knocked out snoring on the couch. As of the rest of them? They were recluses in their rooms, only coming out to eat.

    When I finally decided to stop being defiant, I put out my hand so the nurse could watch me take my pills before slumping back into the couch.
    the older disabled next to me suddenly asked
    " have you seen my dome?"
    "you're what?" I asked kind of chucking
    "My dome have you seen it?"

    She pulled up her leg, and on it, was a huge water filled blister the size of a baseball.
    "At 2'oclock this morning it was about this big"

    She made a circle with her hands about the size of a pea. .

    "I tell yah it hurts like hell! and none of the nurses are doing jack s**t about it!"

    Sadly, this was true, and typical for any off the staff on [what was supposedly] one of the best psych hospitals in the country.
    You see, being bipolar, I'd landed myself at a psych unit once, before, the first one being up in Marion Ohio. There, the doctors were horrible, but the nurses were great.
    Yet here at OSU in Columbus? I couldn't believe what I was experiencing.

    Thirty minutes later I heard what sounded like a cup of something spilling all over the floor. I looked over only to see the woman's blister had popped, forming a shockingly large puddle of water like fluid on the ground.

    "Damn it I knew this was going to happen! And you mother ******** didn't do s**t about it! I'm going to clock you guys with my cane, and you'll regret not treating me right! Do you hear me?"

    A PCT came over and wiped up the mess with a towel, while one of the nurses came with some bandages and started wrapping up the woman's leg.

    What shocked me about the whole thing wasn't the fact that they ignored the woman's screaming, but that the only thing they cleaned the floor with was a towel, no disinfectants, soap

    to be continued when I have time.