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  • #46
    Two years old. In pain. Being stitched up without anaesthetic.

    Yeah, I'd say screaming is normal.
    Seshat's self-help guide:
    1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
    2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
    3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
    4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

    "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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    • #47
      They probably thought you had a concussion. Sedating you if you had one would be Bad[tm], iirc.

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      • #48
        Quoth Trjgul View Post
        When I was little, about two I think, I ran into the coffee table in the living room and had to be rushed to the hospital to get stitches above my right eye. It was terrible- I still remember having to be strapped down (they didn't give me anesthesia and I don't remember why) and screaming for my dad.

        My mom told me that she was standing in the waiting room when she heard on of the doctors talking to someone else about me and said "Geez, what a brat, she won't stop screaming."

        NO SHIT SHERLOCK!! My mom almost punched him in the face.
        As well she should. Asshole.

        I've had doctors try and refuse to numb a laceration before sewing it on kids, saying, "they'll feel pain anyway." Yes, yes they will. But they'll also be holding still while you're trying to sew them back together, and that means it will hurt a lot less you dumbass!

        There are a lot of tricks for numbing a kid. An ice pack to the area helps, then you can squirt a bit of lidocaine onto the wound, it'll get numb, and then you can inject it directly. Hurts a lot less. Shielding the needle from the kids gaze (but NOT blindfolding him) helps.

        Another tactic is something called TAC or LET. TAC is Tetracaine, adrenaline and Cocaine and LET is Lidocaine Epinepherine and tetracaine. You pour this solution into a cotton ball and pack the wound, cover with gauze and tape for about 15 minutes. Numbs it up enough to sew in most cases, or at least numb more with an injection of lidocaine.

        Finally . . . don't tie the kid down! Kids hate to be tied down . . . it scares them. Even toddlers often can understand that doctors and nurses are trying to help them if you take time to explain what you are going to do in language they can understand, then give them permission to be scared and to cry if they feel pain. Make them and the parents part of the team . . . it works so much better.
        They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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        • #49
          I fell face-first onto the pointy end of my grandparents' cat when I was a toddler. My fault. I was supposed to be napping, but I was leaning waaaay over the bed so I could juuuust reach the inviting kitty belly and gravity took over. Poor Piano had a battery of tests and both my parents and grandparents had to argue HARD for him not to be put down afterwards because he was just defending himself from the dumb kid. I was screaming so bad from fear of my parents and grandparents' unholy wrath for not taking my nap like I was supposed to (as I remember it, this was the biggie), and pain from lacerated face, that they just stitched me up without numbing me because I was already screaming. I came out of it with just a tiny scar near my eye--it balanced out the pockmark on the other side from when I had chicken pox so very few people have ever noticed either.

          It generally takes me two shots of novocane at the dentist, though I was gassed under for my wisdom teeth extraction. One of my brothers just had three for a root canal, then the dentist refused to give him any more and sent him home to make an appointment with a specialist.
          It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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          • #50
            Quoth Seshat View Post
            (This was re 'you're too fat' from doctors)

            Gizmo, that's just disgusting. If they honestly believe excess adipose tissue is your problem, they should be giving you dietician/nutritionist access, and access to a physiotherapist or other exercise specialist.
            I agree. Unfortunately being the NHS its been this way for decades. It shouldn't be but some doctors use it as an excuse to basically say "this isn't my problem, people can lose weight on their own, these things could (in maybe 40% of cases or less) be purely weight based" and writing off difficult symptoms (such as sleep apnea, muscle/bone aches, backaches etc in my case. Its even worse since I shouldn't eat dairy - makes me feel like i have a bad cold - and there is circumstantial evidence of possible bone issues in my family).

            I have other friends who have the same thing and have given up completely on trying to get things sorted. It tends to make it more stressful trying to get the symptoms investigated than just work around the problems. One has just found out that a low salt diet was actually causing problems so trying to eat healthy to lose weight has contributed to her problems.

            /will get off soap box now.
            I am so SO glad I was not present for this. There would have been an unpleasant duct tape incident. - Joi

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