Hi, my name is Krystal Denise Clark, my inmate number is 435064. I’m in WHV the Valley of Death.
I’ve been like trying to stay humble and patient, but my life matters. I saw Dr. Ellison this week, and I saw him not too long ago. I followed him and showing him how my chest and how the f***ing mold is growing. How it’s growing in my ears.
He said he didn’t see anything. He wouldn’t give me anything. He took my Benadryl matter of fact, it was on the first, he took my Benadryl from me. Ah, man this just heartbreaking and I’m just like, really, really hurt right now. On Friday I went over there to health care. I saw a nurse he went back there he still have to go report to Dr. Ellison to ask him and tell him what’s going on. He came back and told me told me that Dr. Ellison told him don’t give me anything and tells me to go back and take the Claritin, whatever. It’s just so sad!
And the nurse was like he was looking like he wanted to do something, he like, “You are swollen,” and everything. Make a long story short, I went back out there yesterday or Sunday, and I saw a nurse, Nurse Ferinney [?]. She looked at my ears. She’s like, “Oh, my God! I never saw your ears this bad. I never saw this. They are black.” She’s like, you could see the mold is attached to my ears like it won’t come out. You can just see it’s growing really bad. And she was like, “It’s really inflamed. It’s red in there.”
She called the doctor on call, a doctor different, not Dr. Ellison. She called, he came on the string. She told him what was going on. He said order her some antibiotic drops, some pain medication and take her to urgent to see the doctor.
So she took pictures. When no one ever took pictures of it, she took pictures of it yesterday. She knows how serious and how bad it looks. I go over there every day. They see me coming straight to Dr. Ellison which they know, this was not going to be fair. He looked in my ears. He like, “Oh yeah, I see that you’ve been using the ear drops.” I said, I knew he was trying to cover it up, “I haven’t even used ear drops yet, sir, I just got em.” So he seen the stuff in my ears and try to cover up. He said “Well, I don’t see anything, and we had a meeting about you. All the doctors thinking the same.” He was mocking like, “Do your head hurt? Do your shoulders hurt? Do your legs hurt? It’s all in your head.”
[sobbing] … He’s like, “It’s all in your head. You might think that something is wrong with you. That’s what your mind telling you.” That is so heartbreaking. When they know, and they got blood work and medical work? Papers saying that’s somethings wrong? But he’ll just sit up there and tell me that today. And he’s going to say we ‘all’—how is it all y’all—and all y’all don’t see me?
And they ain’t seeing my body, so how could y’all agree with something that this doctor get together? What y’all been saying about me when it’s killing me, my whole eyes is turning dark, my face is – the spot – Oh, my God y’all could just should see my skin and how I’m just changing fast and quick. They is all some bull crap. They are covering up everything, like it’s obvious. Ever since I signed that paper for the parole board, my medical records they’ve been doing more and more things like trying to cover it, make it seem like I’m making this all in my head.
This is very heartbreaking. This is very wrong what they are doing. How is it possible they can get away with this? But he’s gonna tell me today that the nurse Ferinney [?] I said, “How the nurses and everybody else seeing it and document it?”
So he going behind them and changing it, talking about, he’s gonna tell me, “No disrespect but that nurse don’t know you like I know you.” I’ve been knowing that nurse before you even came to this facility. So how is she not knowing what she sees? She sees something she telling them that is red and inflamed this information is bad. It’s the blackness and my ears that she never saw nothing like this. The mold is just growing.
So he going behind them and changing it, talking about, he’s gonna tell me, “No disrespect but that nurse don’t know you like I know you.” I’ve been knowing that nurse before you even came to this facility. So how is she not knowing what she sees? She sees something she telling them that is red and inflamed this information is bad. It’s the blackness and my ears that she never saw nothing like this. The mold is just growing.
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