Several times I went to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital's Emergency Room with serious pain and horrific muscle spasms that were impairing my ability to function. The first time they did a CT scan but when nothing showed up, the doctor claimed that it must be anxiety and sent me home. A couple of days later, severely painful spasms overwhelmed me in a public place and I lost my ability to walk. I went back to the ER in an ambulance. There someone gave me a tranquilizer and after a short time told me that I had to go home. Since at that point I was again able to walk, they took it as proof positive that nothing was wrong with me except anxiety. The nurse informed me with a ridiculing voice tone that Emergency Rooms are not places to "lay around in."
The pain and spasmic attacks escalated. I had seen my family doctor earlier, who prescribed tranquilzers and Tylenol with Codeine and ordered some tests to be done, but not on that same day.
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