SHASTA

I was a VCUG patient as a child. My sister required a VCUG as well because she had the problem with the backward flow, but doctors recommended that I got one as well. I remember what happened to this day very clearly, more than my own parents. They tried to sedate me but whatever they gave me made me go crazier. I remember fighting against the people restraining me, screaming, kicking, doing whatever to get them to stop. They actually were unsuccessful at completing the procedure because it got so bad my parents forced them to stop. They ended up giving me so much of the sedation that by the end of it, I was really messed up. My parents had to take me out in a wheelchair, & I remember the feeling I felt in that moment. I didn’t recognise this for a long time, but knew that I always displayed symptoms in my childhood of SA. My parents said it changed me.