💙Becca💙✨ :
Sorry you're struggling right now 🫂.
When people suggest going to the ER I die a little inside, for many of the same reasons you mentioned. But I've gone that route and I no longer feel like I can trust that if I were to go in to the ER, that they'd actually do something effective. Instead I have watched them roll their eyes at the laundry list of symptoms I'm struggling through. I've begged them to please help me figure out what's wrong and run any and all tests to give me something to work with and asked them to please not just overload me with medication that essentially knocks me out, just so they can send me home with no lasting relief or answers as to what was wrong. Yet over and over they would hook up a bag of fluids with the I they would often have to dig for, then when I was no longer coherent enough to argue, would send me home to sleep it off. One of those times putting me in a taxi, handing the driver a voucher for my ride and sending me home like that, because the person who brought me to the hospital had to leave for work after waiting for so long to be seen. And because I was so out of it, I couldn't give them a phone number to have her come back to take me home (she'd left her contact info at the nurses station, not that they checked) and I didn't have my purse for them to look for other contact info, so sending me home in a taxi, all drugged up, seemed like a good idea to them. Let's be so for real! I didn't even have a key to get in the house when they dropped me off. I was left sitting on the porch passed out for hours until my ride had finally called them to follow up and see how I was doing, found out what happened and rushed to get to me so she could get me safely in the house.
So yeah... Nooo, I don't think I will be seeking out help from the ER.
I can only imagine how nice it must be to walk into an ER and trust that you'll be taken care of....
2026-05-31 04:16:57