I had an appointment at Grady (a major hospital in Atlanta, where I am recieving treatment) today. There's no doubt that the teams there know what they're doing, but they seem to forget that they are doing it TO a human with feelings.

I had my friggin hand cut off.. I'm in pain. My surgeons say that it's been 3mo since my wreck, so I'm not in pain. How can you base pain levels on a time frame without considering the injury. Sure, if I had bruised my knee and 3mo later wanted meds, no way. My hand was severed though! I have multiple tiny pieces of bone that refuse to heal and are just floating around. Hell, I don't even have bone in one area! Just the jagged stumps of bones! I'm not asking for a drip of morphine to carry around, just something to help me through physical therapy and sleep.

But, yet again I was shown that my quality of life equals shit in their eyes because it's been 3mo.

TLM