What's the most pain you've ever experienced?

I just had my second son. I was delivering at a free standing birth clinic staffed by midwives. It is a training school for midwives. My placenta did not deliver in the allotted time. I had to go to the hospital to get it removed. The doctor was a military guy from the nearby base. (I found all this out later). He came in and Yelled Loudly at me for being so stupid as to not have my kid in the hospital. He called the midwives a 'bunch of stupid hippie bitches'. He shoved a clipboard under my nose and tried to get me to admit my newborn, who was with my husband and toddler son, and the midwife. I refused to sign and then he lied to me and said my son was in danger. I refused to sign anything without talking to my husband, and that I wanted another doctor. He stomped out, and the four nurses in the room with me told me he was the only one on duty. They told me that I might bleed to death, (nice), and then set up an IV. They did not open the drip. A few minutes later he came back in and got to work..no gloves. It was incredibly painful...I heard one nurse mutter 'uh oh' and flick the IV open. She told him the IV was just started and he said something about no time. My cervix was not fully dilated and I think he forced it open with his fingers, his hand in me was beyond description. Two of the nurses held me down using their bodies over my torso. I later found nail marks on my upper arms, too. About five minutes after he left the Demerol that was in the IV finally hit me. It is the most un-fun drug I have ever had and I still felt in pain, just unable to talk. I had to spend the night in the hospital because the test to let me go was I had to pee. I could not even walk.... That night was the loneliest I have ever been. Thank god I had not signed his stupid papers..it was a release to have a spinal tap done on my newborn to check him for pathogens.

We went home the next morning. The town where I had delivered was not where we lived. I was in bed with my newborn, (too cute...dark, thick hair and a sweet face). I was sleeping, my husband had gone to the store for food with our toddler. When i woke up, I was in the most violent, dark pain. I knew instantly that I had a uterine infection. I could barely turn over. Luckily, my baby was asleep. My husband came home soon, and he had to carry me to our pick-up. He called our child's doctor at home, explained the situation and the doctor said that he would call ahead for them to set up an IV with antibiotics and pain killer. This guy was a mensch. He saved my life. This episode gave me a real understanding of just how horrid a death child bed fever is. He also did a quick well baby check on my baby...perfect.

I regret not suing the hospital. I did complain and the bill was cancelled. I am sorry I did not take more punitive action against the doctor. However, a few years later when i was having baby#3, my new midwife told me that she and her partner had been hired to give this doctor lessons on how to behave around women. Apparently the shit had hit the fan when he screamed at a woman in transition to "shut the fuck up!" He was transferred to some place in deep Texas where no one wanted to work. I feel bad for the women there.

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