2018-09-19 at 4:32 PM UTC
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[my hereto riemannian peach]
Originally posted by RisiR †
I'm actually laughing right now.
I honestly didn't do much. The dude I worked with was a professional clown and he did most of the act. It was a routine but there was lots of improvising. We would go in and he would introduce himself as one of the doctors and tell the kids that I'm a nurse (krankenschwester - female word) to wich I'd make a funny face. We would walk from bed to bed and mess up magic tricks and balloon animals. I would casually fall on my face and act as if I was hurt just to bounce back like a champ and do funny faces. The massage was to never stop laughing. We gave them toys and books and then talked to them.
It was absolutely heartbreaking sometimes. I often felt guilty for some reason.
You can do all kinds of voluntary jobs in hospitals. I helped out in other areas, too. That's how I started in the hospital. You can help in the kitchen (lots of convicts doing community time) or you can push beds around. You can clean sheets and stuff but that's hardcore. You can go there and spend time with the elderly. They need that, too. Yea… lots of stuff.
That's beautiful. You should be proud of doing that. Sounds like a kid of survivors guilt. That's a great service you were doing. Would you go see the same kids again and again? I imagine it would be incredibly heartbreaking to see conditions deteriorate. Nurses have told me after a while you become pretty numb and with hospital clownery I'd imagine you'd be more involved and feel more of a loss. Probably best not to think about, good job, you are literally an everyday working class hero and I'm just a nigger
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2018-09-19 at 4:46 PM UTC
Thank you, my man. Trust me... I earned feeling guilty and feeling bad. Haha. I'm a nigger, too.
We would see the same children over and over again but luckily for me the hospital I was at wasn't specialized in anything so there weren't any deathly sick kids that would go there to die. It already sucked enough, though. I can't imagine what it is like in a children's hospital where you only see them leave in bodybags. That's fucked up.
