I was in the waiting room of local pain clinic where I get trigger poinit join injections.
Only 2 others in waiting room, all was quiet until....
Could hear doors banging, then yelling...startled and shook me.
A woman came out from the exam rooms with several nurses, others following her into the waiting room.
She yelled at the receptionist to call her a cab "NOW"!
Then began screaming, yelling...saying she had come here for help, is in horrible pain...
and that after 4 years of coming here had screwed up ONCE, got discharged.
Said she had irretractable pain, another hospital had sent her there for treatment....but they refused to treat her.
She kept asking to use the phone, they kept telling her NO!.
Then she let out blood curdling screams...
Said her son just died a few days ago....
said her 33 year old son had just shot killed himself after being given Prozac by his finace....
he'd taken them thinking were sedatives.
She became very graphic describing what he'd done, how he'd done it, what it looked like...
what she'd seen....that she hasn't cried about this till now.

She kept asking to use the phone, wanted to call her family, that she was going to kill herself NOW!...and needed to talk to them immediatly.

The clinic people told her to LEAVE NOW!...they had no phone for her to use and were calling security.
She kept yelling, begging them to give her pain meds,
anything to help her pain.
She kept asking to use the phone, they kept denying her to use it, told her to leave.
She said she was going to get a gun, come back kill Kathy (the nurse that refused her pain meds) and anyone else there...going to kill everyone AND herself.
She kept screaming, sobbing and refused to leave...kept telling about her son and how he'd killed himself.
She was no doubt very traumatized, big time...and who knows what kind of pain she has....but obviously having a complete breakdown.

This really upsets me big time...seeing someone in such raw pain...
How brutal it all was, her pain, suffering from poor health on top of her losing a child in such an ugly way.
I was very afraid of her threats she'd made, wondering what she may do next...
who knows if she had a gun on her then or one out in her car?...or if she would do something crazy like take a hostage or pull a knife out...
too many stories like this happen daily...
so I didn't take what she said lightly.
She kept screaming, demanding they give her pain meds NOW!...but they kept telling her NO WAY, to leave immediatly.
She finally ran out of the clinic, so they went into lock down mode, called police.
They came, took her away....maybe to jail for making death threats?
My nurse told me that she'd never been a patient here, didn't know what she meant by saying she'd been coming here 4 years then discharged for screwing up....
that another hospital ER doc had sent her there mistakenly thinking they'd treat her.
I have very mixed emotions about all this.
The woman was seeking help for her pain...she was obviously in crises melt down having her son kill himself.
I understand the pain...that initself can drive a person to become desperate when no ones willing to treat it or help you become dismissive.

At the same time I understand the pain clinics unwilling to treat her, give her pain meds...perhaps use them to kill herself.
Then they would be liable for enabling her death.

But then this poor woman was suffering, both emotionally and physically.
Being sent out the door, refusing to treat pushed her over the brink and she ended up losing all way around.
But then if she had lost her "right" to treatment by "screwing up"...who knows what happened...maybe sold them, or took street drugs on top of them, I'll never find out...but she did screw up, lost her "priveledge" to get them...is what happens when you're foolish with such drugs.
I don't blame the pain clinic either way...but I felt so sorry for her, wished I could have helped her...
but NO WAY!....I got my own issues, don't need others saga when can't even deal with my own self!
What a very sad sad mess this woman has to deal with...she is NOT surviving or coping very well.
I'm wondering if there would have been a better way to handle her ordeal, if they could have offered her someone to talk to...put her as inpatient treat her pain and emotional suffering?
Is just so sad...and I'm so confused...I have half mind to write my thougts to the doctors, nurses there....to have a little more compassion, perhaps have councelors on hand to deal with such...afterall this clinic approaches from a Christian standpoint...I didn't see anything close to that happening there that day!
Was just all so sad...so raw, so brutal.
cheryl