How can i start? The truth. Im an ex heroin addict and a paranoid schizophrenic. I had gone 7 times about my left arm. Two decembers ago i fell on ice on my stairs onto my arm really hard. They detected a shattered rotator cuff. They told me without my even asking that no opiate painkillers would be made available to me. I said i didnt ask for that, i asked for physiotherapy. They gave me a pamphlet of therapeutic exercises i cpuld try, along with an injection of Naproxyn. X-rays revealed nothing when i returned seven months later with the complaint that the pain had worsened and had traveled down my arm. They gave me a shot of anti inflamatory and sent me home. I went back again three months later. The pain had become unbearable. My quality of life right now is terrible. I have to take 8 tylenol and ibuprofen just to get into the bath tub, and my wife has to wash me. I cannot exercise, which was a major part of my life, i can no longer play the guitar-which i lived for. I wake up just by my arm moving in the middle of the night, and ill yell out in pain. The pain is excruciating all the time, and they have me marked down as a drug seeker on my file at the hospital. Ive had to call V-tac, looking to get a physical examination. Theres a muscle out of place in my arm, and if i move my thumb the pain is unreal, and my muscle cracks and pops loudly. Then a day came when my methadone dose didnt workâ¦i got sicker and sicker, and i was forced to drink the next days methadone. I explained to my methadone doctor i did this because my dose was not working. She told me to go to the hospital. They asked me if i was desperate, i said yes, my methadones not working. She asked me if i felt like doing anything rash, and i joked and said yeah, i kinda wanna knock over a pharmacy.. they asked me if i had any weapons, i said no, wait, well, just this little foot long baseball bat souvenir i use to open my sisters garage door. They called the police and told them i had a weapon and was going to rob a pharmacy. The nurse turned to continue typing and she actually had the ignorannce to ask âMr Murray, what are the chances that you'll attack me.â I fukn laughed, and i said yeah, we're done here. They will not do abnything at the Renfrew hospital, so my nurse is going to take me to other hospitals until someone listens. They are perfunctorily prejudiced, unproffessional-the doctor i saw refused to identify herselfâ¦REFUSED. My psychiatrist was horrified at their behaviour, and he said i shouldnt have had to go back on methadone when id been clean for four years from drugs, he said the pain im in i should be on an opiate painkiller. Im actually one of the people its meant for. I guess its alright for the doctors and staff at the hospital, because its not happening to them. They dont have to live crippled from pain. Im obviously just a drug seeker. Yeah, thats their great idea. I would avoid this hospital at all costs from here on in. Theres clinical detachment and theres sadism. I watched and listened to this guy next to me sound like he was dying from the pain of a migraine. They gave him two pain pillsâ¦he settled a bit, but then the pain ramped up again. He screamed for hours begging for one more pain pill, and they smiled when they said no. Im not ok with letting human beings be in huge pain when it can be easily stopped. Hearing him suffer really bothered me. I tried to off myself some time ago. I drank three huge economisize Benylin cough syrupâ¦nearly died and woke up there. No one talked to me, no pamphlet, no why did you do this, or dont do it again, no nothing, just, you can go now. They treated me like i was an already dead addict there was no point in helping. No talk of counseling..nothing. I know im a rough street character, and i dont fit in in a small town, but i thought i deserved better than that. The end result is that i will probably go back to heroin, since they will not give me pain medication i need. I didnt fall through the cracks of the system, i was packed into a sub-class of people they treat like unwanted cattle that they created with their drug seeking label. Ironic. I got my habit to opiates through the recklessness of medical authority in the first place, over prescribing me for long periods of time. Breakers and libertine reinterpreters of the Hypocratic oath, from my abode of pain i stab at thee.
Posted Date : 11/06/2022
Anonymous
Renfrew Victoria Hospital is an outstanding .The services they offer ( dialysis, oncology, specialists on a regular basis) makes life so much easier for those who need medical cares. The staff in each department is efficient, friendly, professional and knowledgeable.
Anonymous
Had to have a Colonoscopy on June 2nd, and found the staff very helpful/courteous/kind and professional. Very organized and the drink…Peg-Lyte was clearly not that bad at all. Just a lot of it and tasted fine. The hospital’s Colonoscopy room or area was very clean and the clean gowns were laid out on the bed as though it was a hotel room. Pretty impressed and made me feel very comfortable and at ease despite the procedure. As a man, I would tell all men to get this done! Thank you kindly,…J.G. Martel
Anonymous
Clean, great team (from checkin to discharge), thank you
Anonymous
ER completely missed a stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis.
Anonymous
I do not recommend this hospital. My family have encountered terrible health care experiences.