My mother has been recently diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma and was receiving treatment in the hospital. She was suffering with severe, uncontrollable pain. The diagnosis was devastating, but seeing the amount of pain she was in was heartbreaking. The pain medication they were giving her wasn't even touching her pain. I had gone into Wayne's to get my prescription. It was just 2 minutes before closing time, and after getting my prescription, I asked to speak with the pharmacist. I've always trusted this pharmacy, and over the years, they've advised me on everything from allergy medications to burn ointments, etc. I met with Pharmacist, Beth Nevin. By this time, the store was closed. I stood there crying as I told Beth what was happening with my mother, and asked her what could the doctors possibly give my mother to help her pain. Beth was so sweet and empathetic. She suggested specific routine pain drugs along with specific breakthrough pain drugs that would be most helpful to my Mom. She explained how the drugs worked and wrote them down for me in a way that would make it easy for me to request my mother's doctors to order them. When I went to see my mother in the hospital again, she was in unbearable pain in her spine, ribs, and hips. While my father tried to comfort her, I went to the charge nurse and told her that the pain medication was not working and that my mother's pain was getting worse and worse everyday. I asked for each of the drugs on the list that Beth wrote out for me. Within less than an hour, the meds were ordered and administered to my mother. Another hour later, my mother actually got up and was able to walk with the help of her walker and an assistant. She walked halfway down the hall and back and tolerated it very well. It's the furthest she's been able to walk in several weeks. Three days later, my mother is being discharged on these pain medications to continue her chemotherapy as an outpatient. Beth's patience and knowledge saved my mom. That very morning she said that the pain was too much and it wasn't worth fighting this cancer and she'd rather die. Within hours, she was herself again and had her head back in the game to go on and continue to fight her cancer. I will forever be grateful for Beth's advice. It truly made the difference in my mother continuing her fight to live or giving up and dying. Thank you, Beth. God Bless You. read more
