Miss Hollywood
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Hello fellow bluelighters!
If you recall my boyfriend overdosed on heroin last year and nearly died. Well before that happened he broke his neck skydiving (he was going heads down and couldnt get his main parachute out so he pulled his reserve and it snapped his neck) and didn't even know it was his neck until after his OD. He had 5 strokes, aspiration pneumonia, seizures and was hooked up to life support. He pulled through even though he had to learn how to walk, talk, eat and dress himself all over again.
When they did an MRI and found out he broke his neck and they found out the break was so bad it was compressing against his spinal cord and if he fell he could have become a quadriplegic. They rushed him in for emergency surgery and the surgery was successful. They put a plate in between his two vertebrae. They prescribed him 10 mg of oxy codone every 4 hours. He has spent the past year in a nursing home and we recently got an apartment so he was discharged with just a few days worth of his meds including oxy.
Well he ran out Tuesday and he's on day 4 of withdrawl and he is in severe pain. He took his discharge paperwork to the ER at the Veteran's hospital(he's a veteran of the Army and Air Force. He did 18 years. He was honorably discharged after the incident luckly. He is now retired and is working at the VA hospital under a medical program) and they REFUSED to give him any pain medication because of his overdose. They were even as snotty and rude to remark "I can't believe a doctor prescribed you oxy. If you can get ahold of the doctor that prescribed it to you let them take responsiblity. We aren't giving you anything." They wouldnt even give him a clonodine patch to help with withdrawl or any extra strenth IBprofen. They didnt give him a damn thing. Not even suboxone or methadone.
He has insurance through the VA but obviously the VA isn't an option. He is also insured under medicaid. I am wondering if there is anything we can do or anywhere we could go under these circumstances. He has to work Monday and he's in a lot of pain.
We tried buying Percocet from a "friend" but he ripped us off and took off with our money. So buying anything off the street is not an option and neither is doing heroin again.
What should we do? Please help, I'm desperate to help him. Any advice would be apprechiated. Thanks!
If you recall my boyfriend overdosed on heroin last year and nearly died. Well before that happened he broke his neck skydiving (he was going heads down and couldnt get his main parachute out so he pulled his reserve and it snapped his neck) and didn't even know it was his neck until after his OD. He had 5 strokes, aspiration pneumonia, seizures and was hooked up to life support. He pulled through even though he had to learn how to walk, talk, eat and dress himself all over again.
When they did an MRI and found out he broke his neck and they found out the break was so bad it was compressing against his spinal cord and if he fell he could have become a quadriplegic. They rushed him in for emergency surgery and the surgery was successful. They put a plate in between his two vertebrae. They prescribed him 10 mg of oxy codone every 4 hours. He has spent the past year in a nursing home and we recently got an apartment so he was discharged with just a few days worth of his meds including oxy.
Well he ran out Tuesday and he's on day 4 of withdrawl and he is in severe pain. He took his discharge paperwork to the ER at the Veteran's hospital(he's a veteran of the Army and Air Force. He did 18 years. He was honorably discharged after the incident luckly. He is now retired and is working at the VA hospital under a medical program) and they REFUSED to give him any pain medication because of his overdose. They were even as snotty and rude to remark "I can't believe a doctor prescribed you oxy. If you can get ahold of the doctor that prescribed it to you let them take responsiblity. We aren't giving you anything." They wouldnt even give him a clonodine patch to help with withdrawl or any extra strenth IBprofen. They didnt give him a damn thing. Not even suboxone or methadone.
He has insurance through the VA but obviously the VA isn't an option. He is also insured under medicaid. I am wondering if there is anything we can do or anywhere we could go under these circumstances. He has to work Monday and he's in a lot of pain.
We tried buying Percocet from a "friend" but he ripped us off and took off with our money. So buying anything off the street is not an option and neither is doing heroin again.
What should we do? Please help, I'm desperate to help him. Any advice would be apprechiated. Thanks!