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Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
She calls the doctor. Tells him to get his ass up here. Because his patient appears to be having a break with reality & it's his problem now
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
He comes in. He's condescending. He's also wearing a yellow & blue tie. I remember that tie because when he leans over my bed it touches me
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
He's being a complete shit to me & the nurses. Very sexist, very dismissive. Somewhere in the middle of this my ex backs away. He knows
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
I look that man in the eye, grab his tie & snatch him down. I might have choked him a little with it. I was upset. I was itching & in pain
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
He's demanding the nurses help him & they don't know him. They don't even see this death grip. Not until he admits there's an issue
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
Fun fact, there is a small portion of the population that lacks the receptors for certain opioids. We get itchy, we get aggressive.
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
What we don't get is high. Or much pain relief from morphine & several derivatives. Some will put us to sleep. The floor nurse knew that
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
All she needed him to do was prescribe something I had been given that worked. But he was too busy being an ass to listen.
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
I apologized to the nurse I threatened. I didn't apologize to the doctor. He prescribed something else & fled. He never got that close again
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
In my chart, there is a bright red sticker that says I should never have morphine. Because my brain chemistry reads it so wrong
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
I have an unusually high tolerance for pain. In part because even the pain meds that work mostly just put me to sleep. It still hurts
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
But I would rather the pain than what felt like the green light to psychopath. I literally thought hurting people would make me feel better
Mikki Kendall 11h
Replying to @Karnythia
Now, aren't you glad you know not to ever let anyone give me morphine? It turns me into a super villain & no one needs that in their life.
Maria DahvanaHeadley 8h
Replying to @Karnythia
Oh man. This is me with all drugs in the Valium category. Apparently, I bit & punched the paramedic who gave it to me. I feel you.
Mikki Kendall 8h
Replying to @MARIADAHVANA
Oh god. That's kind of amazing.
Maria DahvanaHeadley 8h
Replying to @Karnythia
Like your reaction, it's not that uncommon to have a rage reaction to Valium. But that didn't stop them from filling my IV with it.
Maria DahvanaHeadley 8h
Replying to @Karnythia
They kept trying to calm me with Valium, and I just got increasingly furious and bitey. It sounds like yours was very similar.
Mikki Kendall
It was so weird because I kept saying it wasn't working & I was clearly getting combative. And yet? Kept giving it to me
Maria DahvanaHeadley 7h
Replying to @Karnythia
Batshit. The only reason they took me off was that my mom remembered my grandfather had been allergic - they thought I was just psychotic.
Mikki Kendall 7h
Replying to @MARIADAHVANA
In my case the 2nd nurse had seen it before but she needed the doc to write an order for other meds.