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Story time because I need to vent: These past 3 weeks Koro went through sepsis and almost died (again)
They put a drain in me and I was screaming in pain, left me there for 3 days while the doctor came in every morning to say: you are nervous and anxious
No matter how much I said I was not they would sigh, tell me I won’t get the pain meds I’m obviously seeking and leave to repeat the pattern the next day
Last day I say: no, you do NOT get to tell me I’m anxious, I am in PAIN something is wrong, you did this to me 6 times last year and every time I was RIGHT something was wrong! So send me to tests and find out why I CANNOT BREATHE DUE TO PAIN
they only checked once my legal guardian called and diplomatically told them that we had EVERY instance of this happening with logs, dates, times down to which doctor and which nurses were there morning, night and day, if I were to die there would be a pattern of negligence she would be happy to pursue.
They check, and lo and behold I’m in pain because the organ in question was blocked and dying
Doctor comes in the day after: looks like you had an objectively correct reason to be in pain
???? Excuse me?
I say: so I was right. Again.
He says: I’m only human I can only apologize.
So I wait and he just stares so I say: so apologize.
He says he already did, I say no he didn’t, he hasn’t actually apologised to me yet. So he repeats I’m only human I can only apologise
I tell him: and me? Am I not only human? Must I suffer in pain for days and days, and only get help if you get threatened? Must I be objectively correct and also demure? Am I not only human who feels pain?
He just got up and left. A few days later they came in and said I had anxiety, and that I can disagree but I absolutely do have it and it’s weird that we keep logs of «accidents» from the past. 🙂
Then they put another drain on me that left me so debilitated I couldn’t stay awake with pain meds, sent me home to basically pass out and scream if anyone went near it. My home nurses must have called the hospital a dozen times and they basically told them tough luck it’s your problem now. Finally Took it out yesterday after 2 1/2 weeks only to be told : huh that’s weird you’re no supposed to be 🙂 and nothing more just yanked itbout after telling the nurse I wouldn’t need pain killers and didn’t tell me she was taking it out. I screamed so loud my legal guardian heard it two rooms over
Doctor then says I screamed because i must have been too anxious
Saying I feel beyond angry is an understatement.
You know what I’m not though? Fucking anxious.
Babs@halfateaspn
You know what’s actually overdiagnosed? Anxiety. Let’s talk about that, because without that label, doctors wouldn’t have a way to dismiss and control patients. It’s a modern-day hysteria diagnosis.
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