I had a fun trip to the emergency room this morning. While I was in the shower, I felt a very raw, sharp pain coming from... well... my uh tail bone area. Right on the skin covering the tail bone to be exact. After getting out of the shower, I got a handheld mirror, and using that and the large bathroom mirror, proceeded to try to see what the problem was, only to find out there was a rather large sore there. It looked very much like a blister that had been popped and had the skin peeled off, just raw, not red or infected looking, just like raw scraped off skin.
Well, I had my step dad drive me down to our local little emergency room (ironic that I remember typing something to someone recently that I would never go back to that place again lol), and having no other patients in the waiting room, I was taken in the back in about 5 minutes. Well, after two hours, 5 xrays, a couple of shots (just tordol and some kind of anxiety med that was supposed to make me feel more comfortable about 20 strange women staring at my behind), they said I have a developed a bed sore right there on my tail bone; most likely since I've only been able to get comfortable at an incline on the bed that puts a good majority of my weight there.
So the ER doctor took the names and numbers of my back surgeon and PM and left to make some calls. He came back almost an hour later, and said he had spoken to both of them, and then hit me with some rather provocative stuff. He said that he felt I was minimizing my pain right now, I told him that it's pretty hard to do that, and he went on to explain that what he meant was, that my pain should be controlled enough for me to be able to get out of bed a lot more, and for me to be able to sleep in more than one position, especially when that position is causing a wound. He said that both the surgeon and the PM agreed with that, and both want my meds increased.
The emergency room discharged me, with specific instructions to call the PM as soon as I got home, with a direct number to call, which got me directly through to the PM, nice to not have to go through a switch board. There was no way I was going to make the office today, and apparently they're closed tomorrow, so I have an appointment for Monday afternoon, and specific instructions on how they want me to switch around the doses of the medication that I do have, until I get in on Monday. They also said they're going to call up the insurance company and see what they can get approval for, I guess they have a way of expiditing the approval process, and this qualifies, or at least that's what they told me (kind of funny how one PM says they can speed up an approval, and another one can't get approval for Norco after 2 weeks and I ended up having to make 500 phone calls to the insurance company, not sure what's up with that).
Well, hopefully, come Monday, I'll have something that will finally get my pain down from these super high levels, I had to laugh when the ER doctor asked me if I thought it was a requirement of surgery for the recovery to be a pain in the butt. Hope everyone is having a better day. Mine wasn't really as dramatic as you're probably visualizing right now lol, but I actually feel a little relieved to think that some help might be on the way; and with the temporary adjustments to what I have, I'm in a little less pain than I was, not much less, but noticeable enough to be thankful for it.