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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two emotional connections to this story.  One, I was desperate enough to save my life from treatment resistant depression that I sought out IV ketamine about 6 years ago before it was commonplace.  It was miraculously efficacious and hen nothing else was, and I met dozens of people in waiting rooms who had similar experiences, as well as with CRPS and fibromyalgia…not surprisingly, also diagnoses where women’s self-reporting of their own pain is often dismissed as exaggerated or hysterical.  Just as ketamine seems to successfully “reset” many of a patient’s default neural pathways in a way that changes thought patterns in depression, so it can also “reset” the brain’s pain perception system that has gone haywire.

It is not surprising to me at all that ketamine is a successful treatment for CRPS.  It *was* surprising that she was in such high dosages, as it is certainly also addictive at high doses, so some of the pain Maya might have been suffering in the hospital was likely withdrawal.

Even so, the removal of her child from her care and presence is so over the top cruel that I can’t fathom the level of pain the child and her mother were in.  [b]Beata was pushy and confident in her knowledge and expertise.  It seemed more like the doctors and nurses were offended that she questioned their God-given authority.[/b]

The second way that it hit me emotionally was the memory of being separated from my son when he was in the NICU and I was recovering from pre-eclampsia and an emergency C section.  Hospital staff wouldn’t let me see the baby until I brought my blood pressure down, which I felt I couldn’t do until could touch my baby.  I felt so enraged and helpless and loooked down upon.  I can’t imagine how much more magnified Beata’s stress was. That poor woman.

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The bolded is right on - the sexism inherent in what happened here can't be overlooked.

I am sorry about your pregnancy/NICU experience. I also didn't see my baby for almost 24 hours after the birth because of pre-eclampsia. I was still in the magnesium sulfate. I remember starting to feel really paranoid about the fact I hadn't seen my baby. But I was also afraid to say anything. Luckily my nurse on the ante-natal unit insisted I be prepped to go see the baby. The NICU wanted to delay for some reason and she told them no. I am still very grateful to her. [/quote]

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