Luna

I had to go up to the nurse at the front and I told her I was here because I had been sexually assaulted.

That was just such a hard thing to say out loud because, again, that denial piece is so big.

The look on the nurse's face was really kind of shocking, too, because she looked like she felt so bad for me, which is not what I wanted.

The last thing I wanted was somebody's pity.

They checked me in and I didn't even end up waiting that long in the waiting room.

It wasn't super busy, thank gosh.

They took me into a room.

I had this amazing male nurse.

He was only like three weeks off of his new grad orientation.

So that was really cool because we had something that we could talk about and he knew that I was a nursing student.

He knew where I went to school because my school wasn't very far from the hospital.

And that was kind of like a nice distraction.

It took my mind off a lot of things for a little bit.

And he was great and he got me blankets and ginger ale just to make it a little bit less...

clinical feeling.

We ended up waiting for seven and a half hours though at the hospital.

So that was really awful.

They had called in a SANE nurse, the sexual assault nurse examiner, but apparently there wasn't one on the unit or like in the hospital.

So they had to call somebody to come from somewhere, which was a really good hike.

from where we were.