Went in for surgery yesterday. Cannot wear a mask due to severe anxiety. Nurse said that the person who does the IV will only do it if I'm masked. I said no. "Can't you just hang it loosely just for five minutes?" That's when the control showed through, see? I said, no again. My husband also cannot wear a mask due to COPD. So we were both treated like we were problem children. Finally got the IV by the second nurse who scolded us the whole time for putting eveone else at risk. I asked her if she had put patients on ventilators and remdesivir. She said indeed she had. I started to weep. I then was left in my pre-op room four hours with no check-in by a single nurse. I was going to pull out the IV and leave but that caused my poor husband to fret. We had to be there at 7am I was taken back dead last. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act forbids discrimination against anyone due to disability if that entity receives federal funding. Nursing plans require an IV to be checked ever so often, right? I was already anxious enough as it was. I guess the staff taught me a lesson, huh?