#neglect tw

recently found out people take pain medication for like, “normal” pain. My mom never gave us medicine for anything, a lot of us have had fevers around 103 degrees multiple times and APPARENTLY you’re supposed to take medication for that!????

I was complaining about cramps and my coworker was like “why don’t u just take pain relievers” and I was like  wh a  t you don’t take meds for this but then I talked to my friend and !! apparently you do!!!!!! Apparently it’s not normal to just wait out being sick and in pain!! Apparently it’s not normal to never take medication for any pain no matter how dizzy it makes you, or how hard it is to stand, or how bad your stomach hurts. Apparently it’s not normal to just “tough out” nausea!! 

When I was too sick to go leave the house, I stayed home, but I never got pain meds except for when they were prescribed for a broke arm. THATS what I thought they were for, pain that was “bad” enough that you’d get a doctor to tell you to take meds for it. Not for throwing up or fevers or colds or headaches or stomach pain so bad it makes you curl up in a ball or anything!! And I thought it was normal!! GOD my parents suck.