@atrupar
Weird hill to die on (pun intended)
His dialysis center won’t allow his life-size Trump cutout, so this man refuses to go
Yes, it's a cult.
....... But one Florida man’s emotional support choice — a life-sized cardboard cutout of a smiling President Donald Trump giving the thumbs up — had to go from a Port St. Lucie dialysis center.
And now that man, 59-year-old Nelson Gibson, says he won’t go back to Fresenius Kidney Care where has been receiving his three-times-a-week dialysis treatments, and his family has taken to TV and social media to get his story out.
Gibson told WPTV he’d been bringing smaller items with Trump’s picture on them and that they were never a problem for the center. He’s a fan. His son Eric, who also lives in Port St. Lucie, told the station the Trump images, i help “distract his mind” from the rigors of dialysis treatments at the Florida center.
Which is why he made his dad a life-sized cardboard cutout of the 45th president.
He first carted the cardboard Trump to the center on Feb. 8.
‘This is not a Trump rally’But a few days later, Gibson said he was told by a social worker at Fresenius that the emotional support Trump item could not stay this time. Gibson said the staffer told him “this is not a Trump rally.”
In a statement obtained by The Washington Post, the center said it’s a safety issue and that a large item such as this one could impede the staff’s line of sight and workflow, among other hazards.
“We strongly support the ability of all our patients to express their views, including bringing personal items into our clinics that provide comfort,” Robert Kossmann, chief medical officer for Fresenius Medical Care North America, said in the statement. “At the same time, we must maintain the safety and quality standards required within our clinics.”
In another statement, obtained by ABC affiliate WPBF 25 in West Palm Beach, Fresenius spokesman Brad Puffer added that patients can bring “reasonably sized items” that express their views to their treatment sessions but not those “that create safety or infection control issues, or interfere with caregivers on the treatment floor.” |
