Indignity

Dear hospital staff,

When an elderly adult has to suffer the indignity of being unable to use the toilet because they are not allowed to get out of the bed, please do not worsen the humiliation by referring to their protective garments as diapers. I do not want to ever hear you ask someone if they need their diaper changed.

Let’s call them what they are: Emergency Fluid Retention Devices, aka FREDS (or iFREDS for you Mac people).

Sincerely,

A customer who has had it up to here with institutional linoleum and the damn parking token machine that will NOT take my dollars.