All that was and ECG

What drove me to the edge, what actually set me off and made me cringe within myself was the moment of ECG!

To explain a little bit more about today, I was at a government hospital going from pillar to post, jumping red tape hurdles that despite all the preparedness had me running around the damn premises getting photocopies and what not of ridiculous things that weren't even needed nor required, but bureaucracy is such that one can't escape this idiocy, and I have already mentioned the puddle of humid sweat I was in, and there was lunch break in the middle of it all and running room to room to get various tests as required and then there was ECG.

I was unable to grasp the entire situation that was ECG until I came upon a tiny cordoned area, that was basically an enclosure made out of green fabric that had a small bed and various wires and suction cups and was hidden from the eyes of others.
This was where they were doing the ECG and I saw the horrors of it when it was my turn to enter the damn thing.
There was a grossly stained sheet, that looked like it hadn't been washed since the conception of the hospital and I was expected to lie down on it and take off my shirt!!
Are you kidding me!
I looked at the doctor with horror in my eyes and she simply said 'what to do' !!

To bring out my lovely silk scarf from the recesses of my bag was for me a thing of the moment and that is what I laid done on that #%£^% sheet, and then rested myself on it, internally throwing up all the time because who knows where those suctions cups stuck all over my body had been!
Did they even get sanitized ??
I was also feeling sad for my lovely scarf, and how mistreated it must feel to have been laid down on a sheet that looked like it was carefully festooned with all the germs in this universe.
Thinking these thoughts I cried inside while the ordeal lasted a few seconds.

The rest of the tests etc got carried out and of course there is one thing still remaining for which I have to go to the hospital again tomorrow!

I have since returned, showered and cleaned my scarf.
I will be better prepared tomorrow!

Also it was strange to note how sorely we stood out today since people actually came up to us asking us all sorts of questions. In fact in a way I'm glad to stick out so cuz most places we were given special treatment and got our tests etc done before others.
I know I know, but honestly I'd have died if I had to spend any more time in that place.