Severe pain with kidney infection, but no hospital stay and only tylenol for pain – is this right?
Three days ago, after suffering from back pain and what she thought was a bladder infection, my mother woke up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain. She was screaming with the pain, and couldn’t move out of the bed. An ambulance came and took her to the emergency room of our health care provider, (Kaiser). They said she had a kidney infection. While she was there, she was still screaming in pain, and a nurse came to ask her to ‘keep it down, you’re disturbing the other patients.’ An hour later, they discharged her with some antibiotics and tylenol. Now, screaming in pain sounds melodramatic, and some people just have a low threshhold for pain…. but not my mother. She went through an agonizing series of chemo and radiation treatment without making a sound. When the doctor said it’d take her six months to wean herself off the morphine she was taking for it, she quit cold turkey in three days, and never made a sound. She’s one of those people that just suffers in silence. B
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