UUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!

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ok, the stress is really getting to me now.

woke up with her headache still lingering, so I let her take

my massage therapy this morning.

After we left the building, her headache was so bad. It's really

sunny here, and the light was killing her head.

So, I'm assuming it's a migraine - right?

Well, we went home and she just couldn't stand it, so I took her to

the urgent care.

The dr there said he'd give her a shot of torodol, which she had

recently for her back, and she said " no, I don't want that shot " .

Her right, correct?

Then, the dr took me outside and gave me a lecture about " enabling

her pain " . " I'm letting her spiral down into chronic pain " (she

already has chronic pain!) " I should ignore a lot of her

complaining - it just makes it worse " Then he said she has a mild

headache, nothing to worry about. He said maybe because it's so

sunny today, and it hasn't been in a while, that she's more

sensitive to it! I swear he said those very words!

And, then the talk about narcotics - addiction, dangers of it all

(like I don't already know that!). I told him I didn't want her to

have narcotics. She has vicodin at home that I could have given

her, but I know that doesn't help headaches. I was thinking they

would try something like imitrex.

This is the 2nd dr to give me this lecture.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but what would they think if I ignored

her problems? Would they get me for neglect?

was so upset, she stood up, and said we're leaving this place

and never coming back. So we left without a word.

She got home and wrote a scathing letter to the clinic.

So, now she's got this migraine, which I gave her 80mg of ibuprophen

for, and she's trying to sleep.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I just be brushing off what she

complains of? She has never been one to complain, and has always

been pretty tough. She's really hurting now, and I believe her.

Besides, she certainly can't " fake " her cold, purple leg!

This is all so maddening, so frustrating, that I'm almost at the

point of blowing my top at the next person who questions my

parenting skills. How dare he! Again, it's a dr who saw her for 5

minutes, then starts assuming.

I do't even talk during his exam, I let do it all.

One other thing - He told me it's a mild headache, then he wanted to

give her a shot of torodol. had torodal in the hospital

with her morphine after her lung surgery. It is not a drug for

a " mild " anything. The truth about it is that you can only have it

5 times in a month, it's so strong and can damage the liver. So,

why would he give her that if it's a " mild " headache?

I'm never going to that urgent care again. They are the ones who, a

few months ago, told me my eye was fine when I went in for a

terrible pain in it, and later that day I was at the eye dr with an

ulcer on my cornea! (My gp sent me there right away) The eye dr

said I could have gone blind from it! He also said I had a scar

from a previous one. That must have been the time I went to urgent

care with terible eye pain, and they said I had a scratch on my lens.

A bunch of quacks, If you ask me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for going on so.

You guys are the only ones I can " Vent " to. I feel like you all

understand the problems with doctors so much.

I know I'm a good mom. I know I'm doing the right things for my

kids. So why are they treating me like this? Do they think I have

munchausens by proxy or something?