re: Shots In Stomach Now Standard Procedure If You Are Hospitalized?

I was inpatient at Emory back in 2012 for 72 days total. Not consecutive but in and out for a week or two at a time. During the grand finale of my lymphoma treatment, I was there for a month consecutively. I had a male nurse that came in every night around 11pm and would give me a shot in the stomach. I was kind of out of it on pain meds and never questioned what it was for. During that last month long stay, I asked him why I was getting a shot in the stomach every night and that the last few were painful because he had jabbed me about 15 nights in a row. He said it was for blood clot prevention but that I could refuse the shot. I refused that one and told him no more moving forward. I wish I would have questioned about 10 days earlier.