I went to this hospital thinking that I would get compassionate care. That's were I was wrong. I had an extremely (and I mean extremely) painful muscle spasm that was shooting down my neck through my shoulder and down my spine. I walked up to the front where they get the basic information and the girl sitting behind the counter which was a registered nurse couldn't even get my name right even after three attempts and spelling it 5 different times. Mind you, my name is pretty common and not hard to spell! After getting my vitals and initially talking (not examined, just talking) to the ER doctor they gave me some prednisone to reduce the swelling and a Motrin to relieve the pain. Then they sat me down next to the registration room and after getting my registration information I was unable to get out of the chair. I was near tears every time I tried to stand up and was just unable to do so, so the nurse brought a wheelchair over to take me to the ER room (which again I had to change from the wheelchair to the ER chair almost in tears) and wait for the doctor to come in. The muscle spasms I was having felt like red hot knives cutting into my neck and shooting down my shoulder and spine. I was in a LOT of pain. They came and gave me a volume for pain which did absolutely nothing and seemed to make the spasms worse (or it could have been the chair they sat me in...not sure). All I know is that I was gripping the chair with my left hand because my right shoulder/neck was in so much pain. When they came to give me the volume I almost dropped the cup of water on the nurse because when I raised either arm and put any weight on it my neck and back would go into severe spasm attacks. The nurse looked at me and said ""Does it hurt that much that you can't even hold a cup of water?"" to which I replied ""yeah...it's extremely painful!"" (DUH!).
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