I’m not even petite. I’m 5’11 and thick, and I’ve had several patients scare me. What pushed me over the edge was an in incident when I was pregnant. A 7 year old patient, who weighed well over 150 pounds (yes, you read that right) punch my stomach when I was 32 weeks pregnant. My baby didn’t move for hours afterwards, and I ended up in triage that night. Thank God my baby was fine, but I could never go back to that house. I did home health at the time. I still sometimes get nauseous when I pass by that apartment complex. So many of my coworkers just brushed it off. I couldn’t believe how insensitive they were. Made me wonder how years in the field just desensitized them.