I just found out that they are supposed to use anesthesia for a procedure I had done to me in the ER

First off at the end of the day I’m grateful that I have health care and I really shouldn’t be complaining but it seems that everyone I know in my area has at least one horror story about their experience with health care here especially when it comes to the ER.

I have a few, but the worst one was the time I had viral meningitis. The first time I went to the ER was when my mom finally realized that I was really sick, I waited for hours before I got in, and then they sent me home. I came back hours later in a very worse condition than before and again waited hours. Finally got in and waited even longer before I got to see a doctor. After some analysis, the doctor suspected I had meningitis (bacterial, the one that’s more severe). He then told me that he was going to be doing a spinal tap and admitted to me that he had no idea what he was doing but that the doctor who was trained in that sort of thing wasn’t there so it had to be him.

It was one of the most painful experiences of my life and after all of that it was unsuccessful. If anyone wants to say that it’s not that serious, I looked it up and local anesthesia is supposed to be used and in some cases even sedation. And I know I shouldn’t be complaining about the wait period but by the time I had finally gotten into a hospital it had been almost 2 days since the first time I went to the ER. It only takes 24 hours for viral meningitis to start causing brain damage. I survived so i really shouldn’t be complaining, but im just kind of mad.