Hospice for my Imagination
By PLETHOS
@Plethos (13718)
United States
January 8, 2019 3:48pm CST
I have convinced myself that the hospital is a place that is equivalent to a halloween house of horrors that runs 24/7/365 days a year. Where else can you chance to hear and see the possibility of someone suffering great pain. Groaning or bleeding from injury. My minds inner paranoia went into overdrive overanalyzing and adding a twisted outlook on what may seem normal in this sterilized environment of medical practice.
In the waiting room, patients coming out of surgery were wheeled by us as they were escorted to their recovery rooms. The escorts were wearing surgical attire and masks. Everything looked very much like an episode of the Twilight Zone t.v. show.
Many things in the place that can make you sick or give you a virus. Things such as bacteria and germs. Infections of some sort are all you here about in the news coming out of a hospital. Plagues that are brought into by an infected victim will only grow out of control in a quarantined room, only to be accidently let loose upon the comunnity.
Behind closed doors, surgeries take place. Human bodies getting "modified" in some sort of way. Losing a piece for healths sake and mostly paid for by a corporation known as medical insurance. Flashbacks of having watched "the human centipede" return to memory.
Throughout my waiting in the waiting room, I kept seeing medical machinery get rolled pass us. Covered over by a white sheet to hide its possible menacing instruments of human anatomy inspection.
As you have read, I am no fan of going into hospitals. I have always had an uneasiness in going into one. The environment in hospitals sets my imagination into overtime, sometimes I catch my reflection in the window of the lobby vending machine smiling at the thoughts going on in my head.
Photograph- Taken/Owned by me, Plethos
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@crossbones27 (52907)
• Mojave, California
8 Jan 19
I was just thinking about getting a routine check up. Not now, I do indeed hate hospitals also. It makes me very anxious just thinking about them.
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@crossbones27 (52907)
• Mojave, California
8 Jan 19
@Plethos That is good your friend is alright. Yeah, I used to have to take my employees to the hospital the Loma Linda one too and I hated everything about it, even the workers would apologize for getting hurt then I felt bad. Sorry, bigger things at play and sometimes you have to suck it up is what I would have to tell them.
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@Plethos (13718)
• United States
9 Jan 19
@crossbones27 - i got lost in that hospital! i just needed to use the restroom! a simple use of the restroom!
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
8 Jan 19
I'm not a fan of hospitals either, which is strange as a child I wanted to be a pediatric surgeon. That thought sickens my stomach now though, especially being a mom. =(
I love your photo by the way.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
13 Jan 19
my husband was in the hospital for a month with his quad bypass..i thought he was gonna go nuts before they sprung him.he HATED it.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
15 Jan 19
@Plethos he was madder than hell by the time they finally let him out.kept waking him up all the time while he was there.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
7 Feb 19
@Plethos Since I met my husband he has been in and out of the hospitals for at least 6 knee surgeries, appendix operation and bypass surgery. I have had enough of them and I spent a long time in them when my mom and dad got older and my mother-in-law.
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
11 Jan 19
Terrifying imagination you've got there.
St. Luke's Medical Center, where my daughter is a resident, houses a grand piano in the lobby. Every so often, a pianist or a piano comes by and plays for the patients and visitors.
And when you hear a lullaby chime, that means a baby was just born.
St. Luke's Medical Center, where my daughter is a resident, houses a grand piano in the lobby. Every so often, a pianist or a piano comes by and plays for the patients and visitors. 
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@eileenleyva (27555)
• Philippines
12 Jan 19
@Plethos Yes. Come Christmas, choirs gather round the piano and render the most wondeful carols of Christmas. Uplifting and heartwarming for the saddest patients and their loved ones.

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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
7 Feb 19
Aww, that must have been cute when the babies were born @eileenleyva.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
9 Jan 19
I do not like going to the hospital either, but the one I went to was really nice. The staff was all so friendly and accommodating. Everyone knew who we were (I guess we stood out more too....)
My sister and I went to the cafe and took some pictures (beautiful scenario) to pass time then we went back to the waiting area. We didn't have to see anyone get wheeled around thankfully or else I would probably want to leave. I don't like .. being at the hospital. Never could work at one or volunteer either... not my atmosphere.
My sister and I went to the cafe and took some pictures (beautiful scenario) to pass time then we went back to the waiting area. We didn't have to see anyone get wheeled around thankfully or else I would probably want to leave. I don't like .. being at the hospital. Never could work at one or volunteer either... not my atmosphere.2 people like this
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
14 Jan 19
hospitals can be very scary places
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Jan 19
@Plethos yes, I find that in many hospitals
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
7 Feb 19
I have spent to many days in hospitals for other people, luckily not for me. My husband has had a few heart attacks and bypass surgery plus other illnesses. All my parents and inlaws but the worst ever was when my second grandson was born. He had 5 holes in his heart and the first hospital could not treat him and he was rushed by ambulance to another one which was 2 hours away and same thing, they couldn't treat him so he was helicoptered to Hersey, Pennsylvania which was a long drive for my daughter and myself. Once there it was like a horror show where it was all young children and many of them had heart problems. When he finally was operated on there were about 10 other very young children and babies that were operated on. I was like a very bad movie.
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
9 Jan 19
I disagree--in the past decade I have been to the hospital 6 times---and each time it was like a vacation in a good hotel!! I don't mind being a patient in a hospital but I don't like being a visitor-- completely different.
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
9 Jan 19
I love hospitals. They're simply buzzing with life, which is bizarre.
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