The urgent care center diagnosed her condition as a bladder infection. But the pain in Diane Conine’s stomach soon became unbearable.
“The pain got so bad, I was throwing up,’’ says Conine, 64. Her urine was filled with blood.
She needed to go to the emergency room, her daughter decided. The daughter picked up Conine at her rural Coweta County home and drove her to the nearest ER, at Piedmont Newnan Hospital. Conine rode in the passenger seat, vomiting into a trash can in her lap.
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