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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)

7. I wish I'd had it for my son's recent surgery.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 04:03 AM

Aug 2015

He was totally miserable post-surgery, and I found out he'd only told the doctor he was about a 3. He didn't have any way to put the pain into context and knew that some people could have much worse pain. I explained that the pain number would affect how much medicine he got and I told the nurse that he was at least a 7. On this chart, he'd have been an 8 right after surgery. Too bad he didn't know.

So thank you!