Reply #39: Actually, the one time I refused drugs...

[pipi_k]

I was 20 and about to deliver my second child.

The doctor asked if I wanted any sort of painkiller or whatever.

I said no, because of a severe phobia of drugs/meds.

anyway, labor was induced, and about an hour later (I'm a fast worker) my daughter was born in a perfect delivery. Except for the episiotomy that I wasn't given numbing agent for, and the subsequent stitching up which I felt, but anyway...

Trouble-free delivery.

So I'm in the recovery room and the nurse is making her rounds of the post natal women, doing BP checks, etc., and she asks me if I had any drugs/meds during delivery. I told her I hadn't...and that's when she looked at me with contempt and said I was "very foolish".

WTF?????

I didn't WANT them.

I didn't NEED them.


Where the hell does someone get the right to tell another person she is "foolish" for not wanting or needing painkilling drugs during a delivery that went just fine...meaning that I was NOT a "trouble" patient for the doctors or nurses. I was a "good little girl" who did as she was told, albeit without their stinking drugs.

So yeah...sometimes people are intimidated into doing things they don't want to do in the hospital.