Re: My weird emergency room experience

[Guest guest]

Hello Bill,

This is an overwhelming and very scary story ( living

nightmare ). You were fortunate to survive this series

of blunders.

Unfortunately, there are far too many other stories in

existence, and also true, very similar to this story.

Even worse, there are many where the patient dies

from such blunders.

I am so very sorry you went through this and others

have also been subjected to such ordeals.

I am still suffering from my levaquin induced acute

tendinitis that has been with me since last Thanksgiving.

Now my ankles, feet, and legs swell from the effects of

the tendinitis. I will now close, get my ice packs, and

put them on my ankles that are to be elevated above my heart.

Grrrr!! There is a positive to all this; the fibro is not as noticible.

Take care and may God bless you all and protect you

from such horrors. ... donpat

Bill wrote:

A couple of years ago I went to the ER with cronic kidney stone pain.

[Guest guest]

Bill wrote: A few minutes later a real big police officer came in and asked me

to sign some papers commiting my self to the rubber room.

Wow. Amazing.

Living with chronic pain is no easy task. It doesn't matter the reason why we

are in pain, but we have to constantly learn how to cope with the pain, laugh

and find humor in the pain, and then on top of it all, we have to deal with

incompetent idiots.

When we try to laugh at ourselves, they say we have low self-esteem and we are

not taking our treatment necessary. But wait, in most cases these health

professionals are not taking our cases seriously, so to cope, we laugh, we joke,

we try to make the best of things. The only thing left after trying fervently

to find humor is to just cry and get depressed.

So, lets see how it works. If we laugh at ourselves, or make a comment or joke

that our health care providers don't get, which they wouldn't because they're

not in pain, then they say we're not thinking appropriately or not taking our

treatment seriously. If we just sit back and let them do their thing, then they

call us depressed.

We are judged as being suicidal, because in their eyes who would want to be in

the pain we are and live. But then they judge us being in that pain and say we

are drug seeking if we try to get out of the pain. If we laugh or cry we are

suicidal.

Are we having fun yet!? Note: That was a joke for any healthcare professionals

reading my email.

Truth is, it is not fun to be in pain, and we have to cope any way we can. We

all have to cope differently, because we are all different. We should be

accepted for who we are, and we should be allowed to express our thoughts

without being judged.

Bill. My 2 cents says that it is horrible that you were put on a suicide

watch.

Jade