...and today is a bit on the down side. Started with Husband puking up his breakfast - yes, first time in a while, took anti-vomit pills, waited half hour, had his breakfast (small portion of quaker oats), and promptly puked it all up... sigh.... Back into bed to rest... so I went swimming again (wow, 2 days in a row.. I MUST be going crazy!!!).
Off to the supermarket after that, while my Dad went to the hospital to get meds from the pain specialist for Husband. My poor Dad.. got there at 9.15am, and probably has only JUST (it is currently 1.05pm) left the hospital to come back here. Doctor giving us the pain patch again (in addition to the Neurontin and the Kytril), at the correct dosage (based on the 180mg morphine tablets + 15ml liquid morphine that Husband takes daily), with instructions to apply it as soon as it gets to us, and then, since the patch, on first application, takes 12 hours to take effect, I have to keep Husband dosed with 5ml of liquid morphine every 4 hours. Once the patch has kicked in, then only give him the liquid morphine WHEN there is breakthrough pain. The patch is supposed to remain in place for 72 hours, and then a new one applied.
Part of the reason for switching to patches is the concern that when Husband pukes, especially soon after taking his pain meds, he could be puking up the meds too! The patch, on the other hand, does not touch the gastric system, being absorbed into the bloodstream, via the skin. Of course, it is also good to reduce the number of PILLS he has to take!! Let's just hope it works better this time round than our first attempt.
We start on the Neurontin tonight, and hopefully that will help with the arm pain SOON... though I have been told it takes time to take effect - a few days usually.
Well, that's it for now. Please continue to keep Husband in your thoughts and prayers.... that all these meds WORK and he can get stronger and get up and about.
Till next time, stay safe, stay HEALTHY!
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