I just want to share a situation that happened to me at work. I always appreciate reading about other people's work experiences. I have had a private duty client, a child, for 3 1/2 years. the family has been through ups and downs, like any family, and I have gone with the flow. Yesterday, I arrived at the client's home and mom told me "she is sick I want her to stay home from school today". Well OK, this happens sometimes, so I proceed to assess the patient. Mom leaves, to go to work I assumed. So extended family member, a man, walks in, sees that the child is asleep in bed, and he goes berserk. Yelling, "what is she doing in bed, why didn't she go to school?" I state "she is ill, mom wants her to stay home today". So man says :if she's sick she's going to the ER. " So I say "she doesn't need to go to the ER her vital signs are stable and she just needs some rest." So man goes "crazy", yelling at me and child, "get up, get dressed, we're going to school or ER. Saying "you're incompetent, and crazy" So I call mom and by now I'm so frightened I'm sobbing. I tell her she needs to come home now. She wasn't at work yet so she comes home. In the meantime he yells and yells. I call my agency, I'm crying so hard I can hardly speak coherently. I've been a nurse for a LONG time and I know how to control my emotions but this man was scaring me. So mom comes home and drives us to school. She is afraid of man as well. I shook for hours. Yes the girl was sick but she managed. Plus he got personal, saying "no wonder you're divorced you're so annoying and difficult". I told my agency I would stay with her that day but I refused to go back. So after a few hours the agency calls and says why don't you take tomorrow off and go back the next day? I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I said absolutely not, I will not work in a hostile environment and be abused. I might say that the man is very difficult and has made inappropriate comments before but yesterday was the last straw. He asked me once if I was a lesbian, which I'm not but that's so inappropriate. He has asked me about my religious preferences and I say "I'm not going to discuss that". He has abused many health care workers in the past but no one ever reported him to my knowledge. Well I'm out of there but nobody seems to care. I want empathy.thanks