'GIVE MY DAUGHTER THE SHOT!'

I completely agree. I know nurses are overworked and it's not always easy to get patients their meds at the specific time they are next due, but being in exreme pain and waiting for the four hour or six hour or eight hour mark is horrific. And it gripes me when patients buzz for the nurse to remind them they are due for more meds and it can take 10-20-30-40 minutes for the nurse to come in there. UNACCEPTABLE!! I've made my rounds with nurses like Aurora did. I think we all have. And when the nurse delivers, drama gone. They get a thank you, like Aurora did.

Emma's scene with her boys breaks my heart every....single....time!! And the fact that she makes sure her makeup and hair is done beforehand to "appear" okay and she smiles and reassures them, my gosh, what a great mother!!


Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic.

Tears my heart out...

It was amazing, and so accurate of how the medical community can be insensitive to paid as they so see so much of it. I am an avid supporter of having your mother around when you are sick.

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If you're loved one is in pain and holding out and suffering while waiting for the next dose, don't go screaming like a lunatic every four hours. Talk to the nurses, get the doctor on the phone, get the dosages changed or get more meds added.

Nobody should have to be in pain and waiting for meds. That's insane.

I worked oncology for many years and never once did we have a scene like that. If the meds weren't working, we would call the freaking doctor and say, "She needs more" or "Can I get a morphine drip?" or some damn thing.

Even people who endured the most horrific treatment (which is stem cell treatment) or had bone cancer pain were kept out of pain.

I don't know what all they had in the early 80s for pain, but I know they had freaking morphine. To this day, there is nothing better. It's cheap and it works, so there is really no reason for anyone to ever be in pain unless they're a burn patient (which is something I couldn't do. God bless the burn nurses.)

Talk to the doctors and nurses. Don't make (or allow) your loved ones to suffer because the drugs aren't good enough. One thing we have in America is good health care and a nearly endless supply of morphine.

There is just no reason for anyone to have pain. Period.

One of the best acted and most realistic moments. The mother is advocating for her daughter with such passion and that lazy nurse could care less.