Is my mother being mistreated at a local hospital? I'm sorry for the length.?

[chason62]

LSU Hospital, a local hospital in my area, refuses to give my mother numbing medication during painful operations in which she's forced to be awake and then they refuse to give her any medication for pain. My mom has a rare skin disease called Hydrotenitis, it's so rare in fact that it has even appeared on the T.V show "Mystery Diagnosis." Hydrotenitis happens on the body in places where there is skin to skin contact (most commonly) like, the groin area, the armpits, and in between the breasts. My mother has it in the groin area, and has had it there for years. Since a few years after I was born. She has no insurance, because it's too expensive and everywhere she applied for it wouldn't accept her because of her existing condition. Hydrotenitis causes cysts to form wherever it is located, and my mom gets at least 1 or 2 every month or month and a half. Recently though, it has become much much worse. This past Saturday, she sat up in the waiting room at the hospital for 14 hours, because she had 3 golf ball sized cysts that needed lancing, and because they made her wait so long the infection spread to her stomach, which only made a 4th area that needed to be lanced. Because cysts are infections, they cannot stitch the wound. They have to pack it with gaws. Her infection was in 4 different places, 3 of the four places exceedingly deep inside her. She was not put to sleep, she was not numbed, they made her lie down on the hospital bed, put her feet in stirrups, and began to cut her. Once finished, they refused to give her any medication other than 800 milligrams of Ibuprofen. Yesterday, she needed to go back to the hospital to have her packing taken out, and now she risks infection because the procedure was too painful because once again, they refuse to put her to sleep or numb it, or give her any pain medication. My mom can't walk around her own house, and all she does is curl up in bed and cry because it hurts so bad. Can this really be legal? I feel like she is being mistreated, or some type of medical malpractice is being done. I don't know how to help her, and next week she has to get a complete hysterectomy because of the disease. The organs and skin must be removed, like her arm pits (because it was in her arm pits too and when I was about 9 she had the skin and sweat glands removed from that area.) and I'm afraid they won't give her any medicine after that procedure, either. I don't know what to do, because the hospital staff can kick you out and refuse you service if you cause a scene, so we can't fight for the meds either. What should/can I do?

[christie42]

Research another hospital because these people are treating your mom terribly actually u could probably sue the hospital because i read somewhere that a hospital cant turn u down service and they have to by law give u pain killers and put u to sleep because of the health risk hope I helped and tell ur mom to feel better

[bergh39]

go to another hospital because this is illegal