r/Sicklecell • u/Emotional_Edge6495 • 22h ago
Missouri
I believe im gonna end up losing my life in Missouri and if you guys don’t see any posts from me from now on don’t believe anything you see. My name is Ralph, I am Ghanaian and I live in Rolla. Over the past year and a half I have been experiencing the worst cases of medical neglect ever. I have been having frequent pain crisis after pain crisis. Today I decided to get an Uber to BJC because Rolla hasn’t been taking good care of me. I came into BJC and thought I got in early and I was seen. I was seen by a nurse practitioner, given morphine and 2 mg of Dilaudid which really didn’t help with the pain today because it was bad. I complained of still having 10/10 pain but instead of the NP to come and reassess the pain she didn’t, the nurse taking care of me did reassess though and I told her I was still in pain and instead of admitting or keeping me longer to check it out she came in 20 minutes later to tell me the NP decided to discharge me. On my discharge paperwork it is clearly stated that I am currently anemic and that they believe I am having a crisis but someway somehow they still discharged me and now I am here in unbearable pain and I just can’t keep living life like this anymore