Along with all of my pain issues, I am having and issue with my mom that has me horribly depressed. Back in Sept. she was on her way (on foot) to make a bank deposit for her work (68 and still working, what an amazing woman). Anyway as she was crossing the street, the light was in her favor, a truck came barrelling around the corner and hit her. She has had to have multiple surgeries on her wrist, knee and shoulder. Her last one was a complete shoulder replacement. When she came out of surgery they could not get her temp and blood pressure back up to normal, so they kept her serveral days longer than expected. They finally let her go home, but her blood pressure keeps bottoming out. She is on a host of medications, thyroid, bp (which I beleive they have temp discontinued, zoloft and darvect for pain as well a s few others I can't think of right now. So now they have her back in the hospital and the prognosis is not good considering her ongoing medical conditions.

Anyway, my dad is in not much better shape and he called me yesterday to see if I could come. Here is my delema. My scripts aren't due until Tues and my parents live in SC and I live in KY a good eight to nine hours away. Without me meds, I would be in no shape to drive there and one ther wouldn't be of much help to anyone.

I am calling tomorrow to see if I can either get an emergency appointment as early as possible or if he will write my scripts early only one day). Fortunately my doc is a great guy, but with all the DEA restrictions, I am afraid he won't be able or willing to help, even with these extenuating circumstances.

I don't think I coud live with myself If something happened to my mom and I wasn't there for her. Even with all of her own medical problems, she has been my rock as she understands the debilitating pain I live with. Also, my dad, who doesn't understand chronic pain would never forgive me if I don't come as quickly as I can.

Please help me. The stress has caused a major flare and I have had very little sleep since this all happened. Oh and btw, I have a younger brother and sister who have done nothing to help my mom through all this. As the oldest and the one who is on disability, it has fallen entirely on me. My brother I can kind of understand as he is a single father with two young sons, but my sister is a judgemental b**ch and doesn't beleive in chronic pain.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Oh and thanks for all the support I receive from this board although I mostly lurk and rarely post, but on the few occassion I have, I received nothing but compassion and support. Thanks to all for any replies.