One example of a microaggression which I detected this week was microassault to my mother when she was in the hospital at The University Medical Center in Jackson, MS for her interventional radiology (surgery). We were the first ones to arrive in the surgery waiting area and my mother was nauseated and asked the nurse could she give her some medicine for it. The nurse said hold and let me go check with the radiologist. Meantime, my mother was being frigged and was giving them trouble by wanting to sit up on the side of the bed in which they could not let her do because she had been medication. Well, this white lady kept saying you can not sit up on the side of the bed, but I can let you sit up in the bed. My mother kept telling her I feel nauseated and I want to sit up on the side of the bed. She came over and lifted her head up in the bed and then she left to take another patient back to surgery. By that time the nurse came back and gave my mother her medicine for being nausea. We were sitting in there for about an hour or two and I noticed that two or three people was being taken back for surgery and I was getting impatience. After my mother could not get comfortable, she asked the nurse can she help her to turn over in the bed and the nurse said I can not, but you can pull on me and my mother said why not and the nurse said cause she is pregnant. My mother said well I do not want to to be strain on you and hurt the baby. So, the nurse said I will get some help and by that time her other teammate showed up and she asked him to help. He helped my father to turn my mother over in the bed. Meantime, while they were trying get my mother situated in the bed, the white lady from earlier came in and the nurse said they trying to get her in bed and she was telling the white lady how my mother was acting up, but the white lady humped her shoulders as if she did not care, but she was unaware that I was watching them the whole time why they were discussing my mother and when she seen me look her in the face, she tried to play it off by winking her eye at the nurse as though she was playing. I know she was not playing and was very inconsiderate about what was going on with my mother. I think the white lady was being races towards my mother because she was giving them trouble, but she was not intentionally doing it on purpose. My mother was just nervous and scared about her procedure because she did not know what to expect. When I observed the microaggression, I was getting mad and irritated because she should have handle the situation in a more professional manner.
My observation experience this week affected my perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people. I see that all three of them still exist today. It taught me that people can discriminate or be prejudice towards you absolutely for no reason at all even if you are sick. It made me realize that a person's expression can portray to be different from what you thought original. Also, it can reveal who they truly are when it comes to them interacting with others. Since I been at this hospital I have come in contact with a many of rude and stereotype people who do not mind showing how they feel towards you even on their jobs. They are so unprofessional and do not really care.
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