The Pain? Tick Tock and It Don't Stop.... (Entry # 9)

(Excerpt taken from previous document of my experiences)


My October period. Well, what can I say? This was the end all be all of everything I had gone through. Pain galore. I had to go to the ER on Friday.

My parents were on their way up here and I called them on their cell and told them to just meet me at the hospital. By the time I got to the hospital and parked my car and was heading to the building, Mom and Dad pulled up. I was so glad to see them. Mom got out the car and I wrapped my arms around her and just started crying. Crying in because I was glad to see them and crying due to the pain. We got checked in and sat down. Dad came in shortly and I wrapped my arms around him from where I sat and started crying again.

Before too too long, staff called me back. I sat down and they took my temperature and blood pressure. It was then time to sign the insurance paperwork. The desk for this couldn’t have been anymore than 10 steps away, but I could not get up. I knew and felt that it was going to be too painful. Mom and Dad said they would help me, but I didn’t want to. I finally did get up and screamed out in pain and started crying. I had one arm around Mom’s neck and one around Dad’s neck (my parents are in their seventies and eighties - I’m supposed to be taking care of them).

You must believe me when I say that this kind of pain is just unimaginable. I sat down and signed my name to all the papers. By this time, I had this down and didn’t have to read anything. I was in so much pain I just signed. Staff had gotten a wheelchair for me by this time to take me to a room in the back. Mom went back with me and helped me get into the gown. At some point the doctor came in asked me some questions and I was administered some medication. He said the medicine would not take away all of my pain, but make it more manageable. He didn’t lie. The medicine did not take away most of my pain, but I thought it would get better.

Why couldn’t the medicine take away all of my pain as it had in the past?  I don’t believe that he gave me enough of whatever. Anyway, he prescribed anaprox and I already had percoset. He said if need be I could take them together and you better believe I did. But I ran out of Percoset.

Saturday morning I was still in pain and got my parents up around 6 or 6:30 am and we headed back to the hospital.