The Favorite Robe

The other night at work I took over the care of a lady who delivered her baby about an hour before. I walk into the room and she's laying there in bed with this short white robe on, only, it's not really on. It's open in the front so her boobs are just hanging out. Now, I deal with the most private of private parts for a living, so boobs are nothing for me, but still, most people don't just let them hang out for anyone and everyone to see. But whatever, it gets weirder...

After talking to the nurse that had the patient that day, she tells me the patient refused to take that robe off. She labored in it, her water broke in it, she delivered in it, so needless to say, it was pretty funky. So I get her up to the bathroom and of course, there's blood and who knows what else all over the back of it. I sit her on the toilet, she goes potty, and as she gets up, she realizes one of the waist ties fell in the toilet when she sat down, so now there's pee and blood all over it. She asked me to cut the dirty part of the tie off. I told her I didn't have scissors and offered to get her a clean gown, which she refused! So I took he to her postpartum room is this dirty ass robe. What else could I do?!

But EWWW!!! What's the attachment to that robe that she'd rather wear it, filthy as it was, over wearing a clean hospital gown? Weird...