we’re opposites!
The weather is slowly starting to be liek spring,. it has been cold and windy and cloudy for ages! Good thing I had great time in Chile.
I am dying for some warmth and sun!
are you having a good time in Normandy?

In our area of So. Cal, medical staffs in various settings from skilled nursing to hospitals receive pain management training, use smiley face type charts to depict gradations of pain. These pain level graphs can be easily shown to any patient, but are especially helpful for those who are unable to adequately verbally describe their pain level, then medication can be administered accordingly, IF the physician orders a prescription for same.

Generally, nursing follows up on the pain management. All professional staff interacting with patients are expected to pay attention to every patient with whom they interact, report pain management issues immediately to nursing, or may do so directly to the physician when they have contact. I see this happening in settings to which I have had access.

I can only wish for you, Claude, and Milt, any others in pain, whatever their tolerance level may be, that continued communication efforts repeated to your medical caregivers will result in your pain being relieved.

The more progressive attitudes toward pain management in recent years has included a recognition, acceptance by most medical professionals, of the importance of minimizing a patient’s pain, that fear of addicting patients with pain medications has been proven invalid with various patient administering research studies.

If pain management enlightenment has not occurred where you live, then I would strongly encourage people to become vocal to medical personnel in all medical settings, press local news media to explore the issues, just bring pressure to bear, before, but especially whenever you need pain management. Check out any written materials on the subject, print them off the Internet, go armed with your documentation to confront your medical caregiver.