By Allison L. Williams Hill
In-Vesica Art Design Energy
“Do All Things In-Vesica.”
The Youtube channel is called Cindys Villa. On May 26th, she uploaded a TikTok video of a white labor and delivery nurse discussing health pregnancy care for Black women. It was viewed almost forty thousand times and had over one thousand comments. The nurse mentioned needs that were not being met. “I’m colorblind. I don’t treat my patients any differently,” said other nurses to her. This nurse’s point is that they cannot be colorblind. Other comments from the nurse:
“Black women are more likely than any other race to be harmed in pregnancy childbirth and beyond.
“Black women are not believed about pain, symptoms…
“They delay seeking medical care because they don’t trust health care providers…
“Pre-eclampsia is the one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the United States.”
This nurse cited James Marion Syms and so did I in the letter about my mother’s experience.
The comments on this page were frustrating. I felt anger that women suffered because of what they looked like. But it’s always been like this.
I am Black. My mother was Black. I witnessed an incident at Nassau University Medical Center, Nassau, New York. I wrote a letter to Ms. Laura Salenimo, Patient Care Representative expressing my displeasure. My mother was in her eighties. Below is an edited version of the letter.
My mother came to NUMC’s Emergency on December 13, 2018. She was in Treatment Room No. 26. Several nice people saw to her care. Not all of them were decent, however. An Asian woman, thin, who I saw use a station at the Nurse’s Station directly outside of the treatment room was called [removed] by another worker after the incident. She was in the room with, I think, a student nurse with a Middle Eastern name. She did not introduce herself as others did. She ignored my mother’s question. She had a device in her hands, picture included. She dropped it on my mother’s legs. My mother screamed. This employee said nothing. She did not acknowledge that it happened. She kept going as if no sound was made.
A photo of the actual equipment that the hospital worker allowed to fall on my mother’s legs.
I do not know if it was true, if it was used to support your employee’s lack of compassion for something she absolutely caused: some people think that African-Americans, due to the melanin, can endure high levels of pain. Doctors like Sims operated on African women without the benefit of anesthesia because our race made us durable – NOT!! People have internalized the nonsense from Carl Von Linneaus racial classifications that supposedly saved anthropologists time and energy.
Statue of James Marion Sims, the pig in Central Park who performed gynecological examinations on Black women without anesthesia.
I wonder if Asians think like that. Moreover, I wonder if they are even aware that they do. On the other hand, I don’t care if they do or she does. Hi Chen made a gross mistake dropping a device on my mother. While my mother in the room on the eleventh floor, I checked her legs for bruises and thereafter after she was discharged.
“Researchers from the University of Virginia discovered this when they queried a group of 222 white medical students and residents and found that half believed in phony biological differences between black and white people, including “that blacks age more slowly than whites; their nerve endings are less sensitive than whites’; their blood coagulates more quickly than whites’; [and] their skin is thicker than whites.” Source: “Medical Racism and the Ignoring of Black Pain” written by Kali Holloway / AlterNet April 23, 2016
My mother‘s experience was so memorable that she spoke about it many times after discharge. An assistant nurse or whatever staff was cleaning her. This woman left my mother damp and exposed with the room door open. My mother complained that she felt exposed and asked that the staff close the door. The response from the staff was, “No one can see you.” I will let that sink in for a moment. The door was never closed. My mother felt extremely uncomfortable, to say the least.
The images were in the body of the letter.
I commented on the page encouraging women to document their experiences and submit them to the hospital, professional boards, and all other places where the case should be read.
A couple of women wrote that they were sewn up and felt the pain from the stitching. I should think that sewing up a woman after giving birth without anesthesia and she complaining about feeling the pain constitutes medical malpractice.
I added several comments on this page. To read the experiences, of people cut open without anesthesia, was devastating. We all must be aware of the medical profession’s practices and plan accordingly.
After reading more comments I asked Spirit if there was anything that could be done. I asked, Spirit, please help the writers of these experiences and those who had experiences and did not write. I asked God, by Grace, to please imprint the Original Blueprint on each of them.
I am glad that women are writing about this. Previously, this subject would have remained unspoken.
Allison L. Williams Hill works as an artist; designer; planner; healer; integrative health coach, and inventor. She shares her work and services through
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