I asked how long the volume would take to relieve the pain and was told 20 minutes. I waited over an hour and was in even worse pain than before I took the pill. I then had such a severe spasm that I yelled out and blurted out a curse word (being in such pain, you don't think about what's coming out of your mouth), and the nearest nurse whose name is Kevin came in and yelled at me saying that I will not curse in the hospital and yelling because of the pain is borderline OK! Mind you that I was in the room with another couple because this hospital shares rooms with two patients and I was not only in severe pain, but I was completely humiliated when the couple next to me heard this nurse try to reprimand me for yelling about my pain and then attempted to argue with me in front of these people! When I told him that I didn't appreciate being yelled at, he stated that he didn't yell at me and I told him that he raised his voice at me and he, of course, denied that and said ""well, it's going to be your word against mine anyway"", like if I even thought of saying anything to anyone above him his version would counter anything I had to say!! I was NOT in a mood to take any kind of crap from anyone at that point considering I was in the hospital now for over an hour and a half and was STILL not seen by the ER doctor, so I told him that I could understand about the cursing by what did he expect me to do about the pain!?! Was I just supposed to sit there and not express my excruciating pain? I told him that I would have loved to see him in this kind of pain and not make a sound or curse. I made sure to catch his name so that I may give the ER Director a call and tell her of my experience there with him, but it gets better. After they gave me all the pills I mentioned above, another nurse came and wanted to give me MORE pills which when asked how long it would take to be effective she replied a half an hour!! Are you kidding me??? I was already in excruciating pain for around 2 hours at this point...still not seen by an actual doctor and now they wanted to give me another dose of whatever that was going to take another 30 mins to work! I then waited for MY nurse (which by the way was NOT Kevin) to ask him about how much longer the doctor would take and when he finally did come, he took more vitals and asked me if I took the pills that the earlier nurse tried to give me. I told him that I didn't because I wanted to have something that would work quicker since my pain was increasing to the point where I was almost on the floor. He said that he would talk to the doctor and see what he wanted to do. The nurse then proceeded to the room across the hall from mine that took the vitals of a teenage girl with half her boobs hanging out of her shirt and then started flirting with her!!!! I'm sitting there across the room moaning and groaning from the severe muscle spasms and there he was flirting with this girl! Oh, the part I didn't tell you, was before the nurse came to take my vitals, she was seen by the doctor (which I can only assume that that would have been the same doctor that would have seen me, but no doctor ever came so I couldn't be too sure). The doctor told her that she was going to be discharged and left...after that is when the nurse came and took both my and her vitals, flirted with her for several minutes, and then came back some few minutes later with her discharge instructions. So, I'm still sitting there in pain, moaning and groaning (loudly, not to be obnoxious, but because I was seriously in pain), and after the nurse was done discharging her, he walked right past my room TWICE and didn't even come in to tell me that he talked with the doctor or any kind of update.
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