Fat Nurse borderline abused me in a hospital (rant) So recently I was hospitalized for a week due to a spontaneous pneumothorax,  and during the miserable week of recovery I had very thin and pleasant nurses.   Everyday I was very happy with how nice they were to me, washing the wounds and being careful around my chest tube.  Until the eat beast took over for two shifts.    Those two days were the most miserable of my life.   She was always breathing heavily,  never responded to my nurse requests (needed about one visit an hour because of the IV machine beeping and she wasn't coming).    She always jostled me and treated me badly, but on her second shift it was too much.   It was time to remove the larger chest tube from my side, and she was going to do it.   So she prepped the area and wasn't careful at all,  poking and proding the wound.  She flipped me on my side and pulled it out, and it was understandably messy because of the fluids.   But instead of packing the wound and wiping me down,  she left me laying on my side with tears in my eyes and bloody fluids dripping down both sides, slapped a bandage on it and left.   My mom had to grab a nurse to help me clean up because I could barely move.  To make it even worse, the doctor mentioned to me that my weight was likely the reason it happened.   To quote him, "this really only happens to tall skinny people",  so my parents and the nurse were harassing me to eat more and gain weight the whole week long.   Anyway,  the next day the thin nice nurse was back and when she removed the second tube I barely felt it, and she cleaned me up and helped me back to a comfortable position instead of abandoning me there.   Fuck fat people.   And Fuck pneumothoraxes.