Unheard: My Traumatic ER Experience as an auDHDer Woman
When Medical Professionals Fail to Listen
The pain shot through my arm, lights exploded behind my eyes, as blood flowed where blood didn’t belong. I cried out, aghast that it was possible to feel more pain than I already did in my flank from kidney stones.
The pain from child birth fades from memory. We’re built to forget that pain. I know I labored without medication for 10 hours with my daughter. I remember doing it. I remember breathing, meditating, chanting my way through contractions. Over and over and over again, all night long, exhausted. I know I was in pain, but I can’t actually remember the pain.
As my husband drove me to the ER, once again suffering with unsufferable pain from kidney stones, I contemplated the forgotten, faded memory of pain from child birth, and found it fuzzy. However, that pain of a burst vein from a poorly placed IV worse by far than the pain of a kidney stone, that memory hadn’t faded one bit in the six years since that terrible night when the ER made me hurt worse instead of less.
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