Thursday, June 23, 2011

Hospital Socks

Yes, those are my feet and my socks. 
Picture taken with my iPhone and filtered with Instagram.

Hospital socks are the great unifier. Though some patients wear standard-issue hospital gowns and paper-based hospital pants, and some patients cling to normal life by wearing street clothes, but about 90% of all patients in this ward (which holds about 30 patients) -- they wear the standard-issue hospital socks with diamond-shaped grips. The socks put us on the same level, marking us as equals, because everyone is nothing more than a patient here. You could be a successful career-person or a homeless person on the street, but all of us are patients in a psych ward and all of us wear these ridiculous socks.

That other 10% wears real shoes (usually Crocs, actually), but the socks are everywhere. I think it's a matter of comfort. As we struggle with our demons, we want an iota of comfort: we want our feet to be warm and safe.

We're not allowed to go barefoot for some reason.

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