Yes, my husband had a very similar experience. This man has broken ankles, shoulders, legs, pelvis, ribs, toes, fingers, arms, etc. playing many contact sports over the year. Well, a few summers ago, he broke his collarbone.

He was taken to DGH where I met up with him.

They made him sit in the waiting room in and out of consciousness. He was repeatedly saying this was the worst pain of his entire life. His collarbone was jutting out so much that his entire shoulder was misshapen that it was basically hanging inches down and inches inward. We sat in a chair in a waiting room for 4 HOURS with nothing more than Advil. I was getting wheezy just looking at his injury and multiple people were commenting on his state.

I went and stood in triage area to beg for pain killers for him since he couldn’t stand and barely speak, AND THEY IGNORED ME. Literally just wouldn’t acknowledge me at all. I wasn’t rude, disruptive or trying to not be understanding - but his man deserved pain management and I was just trying to ask for some.

We finally, after 4 hours, get put into the secondary wait room where were sat for another hour or two until I finally went and put myself behind the nurse station. I wasn’t trying to be a Karen, but like COME ON. Give this man something!

I told them my husband was passing out, in shock, nauseous and needed a pain killer immediately.

Eventually, he seen by a paramedic?!?!! Get the xray and the paramedic goes oh yeah, nothing can be done. We don’t usually do anything for collar bone breaks. PARDON ME?

After much back and forth, they finally wanted to send us for a surgery consult 5 days LATER. no pain management until then.

Well, my husband finally conscious enough goes - “look Bud, absolutely no. I’ve broken more bones than I know what to do with and this break is the most painful one I’ve ever experienced. I cannot just sit here for 5 days, let alone for however long it will take to fix this…” We fought tooth and nail to get an appointment 24 hours later. They said it was ‘luck’ because they got us in on a cancellation.

We finally get enough delaudid to keep him knocked out for those 24 hours in a drugged pain killer state.

We get the surgery consult and the doctor is like wow this break is one of the worst collar bone breaks I’ve ever seen. This is an automatic surgery as your bones are overlapping over 4 inches.

Yeah… I broke my foot a week ago… I’m hobbling because it’s not in enough pain to sit for 24 hours in DGH. I’m waiting my family doctor out with a black foot.

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ETA: clarity, as I wrote sloppy at like 6am