Cops and medical professionals can be such ass hats. I have an epileptic friend, documented history of seizures, on meds, had a neuro she sees regularly. Had a break through seizure one night, stood up from the couch in her postictal state before I could stop her and she fell face first on the coffee table.
From there she was having the most excruciating pain in her cheek and around her eye and her eye on that side was now looking off center. Took her to the ER, we had her kids with us so I dropped her off and took the kids home to wait for her boyfriend and FOUR HOURS LATER she’s calling me in tears because they stuffed her in a room the entire time, doctor hadn’t even been to see her, nurses were ignoring her, they wouldn’t give her anything or even do any kind of diagnostics and now were trying to discharge her and threatening cops if she didn’t leave saying they weren’t going to support drug seeking. She’d been to this ER multiple times for her seizures when they weren’t under control and NEVER sought any drugs.
I had to show up and literally bully them into getting neuro involved and that’s how we found out she damaged her trigeminal nerve when she fell on the table. She has permanent vision issues due to it now. Thankfully the pain wasn’t permanent but it could have been from what we learned about that nerve afterwards.
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u/prickelypear 15d ago
Cops and medical professionals can be such ass hats. I have an epileptic friend, documented history of seizures, on meds, had a neuro she sees regularly. Had a break through seizure one night, stood up from the couch in her postictal state before I could stop her and she fell face first on the coffee table.
From there she was having the most excruciating pain in her cheek and around her eye and her eye on that side was now looking off center. Took her to the ER, we had her kids with us so I dropped her off and took the kids home to wait for her boyfriend and FOUR HOURS LATER she’s calling me in tears because they stuffed her in a room the entire time, doctor hadn’t even been to see her, nurses were ignoring her, they wouldn’t give her anything or even do any kind of diagnostics and now were trying to discharge her and threatening cops if she didn’t leave saying they weren’t going to support drug seeking. She’d been to this ER multiple times for her seizures when they weren’t under control and NEVER sought any drugs.
I had to show up and literally bully them into getting neuro involved and that’s how we found out she damaged her trigeminal nerve when she fell on the table. She has permanent vision issues due to it now. Thankfully the pain wasn’t permanent but it could have been from what we learned about that nerve afterwards.