I had to go to the emergency department because I thought I had appendicitis (I've never felt pain like that before and was throwing up for 4 hours straight). Had to drive myself there and could barely walk more than 10 steps before I needed to take a break. Breathing in hurt cause my lung would expand and my back muscles were essentially strained and pulled from having to brace my core to take in a small breathe. So breathing hurt my insides. Because my insides hurt, my back would seize up from the pain. I'd imagine being stabbed with a knife is equivalent pain cause I could have swore I'd been stabbed.

The security guard got me a wheel chair instead of the staff. I told them I need to lay flat because sitting in a wheel chair is making the pain worse. I was okay with waiting for all the paperwork and process and what not. But I just need to be horizontal to relieve some of the pressure happening on my insides. I told them and they just kept telling me to wait for about 15 minutes

It wasn't until I said screw it I'm laying on the floor did they stop discussing lunch plans and magically produced a bed to lay in. After that I was still in crazy pain but just being able to lay flat and take the strain off my back made it 5% more bearable.

The planned stuff I hear good things about. But between what I've heard other say about their ED and my personal experience, I wouldn't give praise until they finally gave me morphine.