This place is REALLY teaching me patience (and I noticed the pun only when I wrote the subject line of the post, ha!).
Long story short, we're stuffed 2 to a room, and very close together. No matter how well you get along with your roommate, you're bound to drive each other crazy after awhile.
Which is definitely my case right now.
My roommate (who is otherwise quite nice) has tons of visitors every day, and is on her cellphone for hours at a time. starting 8am. (Once she was on at 6:30am.) She gets REALLY into her conversations and is super loud. And she's just a few feet away from my bed...we're only separated by a mere curtain. (As I keep writing on social media, this is a sardine hospital!)
I just can't take it anymore, I am so sick of hearing her voice all day long. I was blasting music on my earphones to try to block is out, but after doing that for a week, and removing the earbuds at one point and hearing how damn LOUD it was, I decided to give my poor ears a break and just listen to music/watch movies on my laptop without the earphones.
But her nurse insists I listen to stuff with earphones...never mind the fact that she cackles on her cell phone starting at 8 am and has entire family gatherings in here daily, and I never make a peep.
But if she wants to sleep in the afternoon, I gotta use earphones again (because fuck my ears, apparently) so she can sleep. (Hmmm, when she starts up at 8am I'd like to sleep a bit more too, but you don't hear me complaining!)
It's just all so exhausting. Such is the nature of being stuffed 2 to a room with barely any space to move around. I'm just so fucking tired of hearing her voice. I can't explain how tired of her voice I am. I'm already stressed out about, ya know, CANCER, and the transplant, and finding the donor and all that (as everyone in this ward is), and then we add this really undesirable (understatement) rooming situation to the mix, and ugh...what a disaster.
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