My mother’s medical neglect of me as a child inhibits my ability to communicate my current physical pain, and therefore leads to not asking for help when I need to heal. I do not know how to communicate my own pain. I recently have been having excruciating back pain.
I have been in physical therapy for it, but with no improvement. My doctor decided I needed radio frequency ablation (RFA). That entailed doing a pain block to test if the RFA was going to work.
I went to the surgery center, and they did a pain block. It was supposed to last six hours. In those six hours I was supposed to every hour on the hour, do an activity that typically would hurt my back.
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