Feeling much better...
Oct. 28th, 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
candygrammeThis is just a note to those who were worried last evening to say that I am better after a night of morphine and needles. I feel a wee bit limp today, but that's possibly a good thing, because I'll get sympathy.
Anyway, I am back home and not dying yet.
Thanks for the flaming bag of poo and the rose, whoever you are, they are just what I needed to complement the descent from the morphine! The threat to write only het was almost too terrible to contemplate, but I'll recover from that with therapy in time.
Anyway, I am back home and not dying yet.
Thanks for the flaming bag of poo and the rose, whoever you are, they are just what I needed to complement the descent from the morphine! The threat to write only het was almost too terrible to contemplate, but I'll recover from that with therapy in time.
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:47 pm (UTC)*nibbles*
*g*
het?????????
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:54 pm (UTC)And that ICON... Oh, man! Where's the original photo? Please, please, can I have a copy?
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Date: 2006-10-28 05:54 pm (UTC)sent you email, but you rest and take care of yourself and you know we love you lots and lots :D
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Date: 2006-10-28 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 07:14 pm (UTC)You feeling better? :)
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Date: 2006-10-28 07:24 pm (UTC)And I like that icon!
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Date: 2006-10-28 07:56 pm (UTC)I like that icon too. And I like that one, your boy-kissing one.
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:13 pm (UTC)Poor dear...
Date: 2006-10-28 06:38 pm (UTC)On a happier note, my first disc of Supernatural arrived via netflix today! I'm so grateful you talked me into watching this great show. Maybe you can have your own Pretty Boys marathon and lie abed and watch DVDs all weekend.+
Re: Poor dear...
Date: 2006-10-28 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 08:23 pm (UTC)*hugs you gently for a change*
so the important question..... any dishy docs?! *G*
*sends you semolina*
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:16 pm (UTC)A: Because she's too fat!
No dishy docs, but a very dishy nurse, who said I had girly veins! Go figure. The only feminine thing about me.
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:34 pm (UTC)you must be feeling better if you can make jokes that awful! LOL!
I always get told I have beautiful veins when I go for my bloodtests! nurses are always very impressed! just what every girl wants to hear.
seriously, I hope you feel better real soon, babes.
*squishes you*
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:38 pm (UTC)Not so keen on that icon. What did you do to Steve to make him go crosseyed?
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Date: 2006-10-28 09:43 pm (UTC)*winks*
he'll be better later.... maybe!
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Date: 2006-10-29 04:50 am (UTC)Let's just say it won't be pretty.
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Date: 2006-10-29 11:49 am (UTC)*nibbles your icon*
*nibbles you*
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:28 pm (UTC)Nibble that! Haieee!
That was my Miss Piggy impression, BTW.
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:46 pm (UTC)*smothers it in batter*
*cooks it with some nice chips*
*feeds it to Steve who is most appreciative*
*gets lucky*
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:52 pm (UTC)Hah!
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Date: 2006-10-29 10:02 pm (UTC)...oh, & dude, I am so not having sloppy seconds this time... I did cook after all....
*licks Steve*
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Date: 2006-10-29 10:30 pm (UTC)So Whee... Dives in and snuggles.
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Date: 2006-10-28 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 09:39 pm (UTC)Or maybe it's just me!
See what you did?
Date: 2006-10-28 10:15 pm (UTC)Seriously though, I'm really glad to hear you're okay.
Geraldine, who's giving you a very gentle and cautious hug.
But you know what? Maybe with the morphine the caution's not necessary :)
Say 'Hi!' to Russ for me.
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Date: 2006-10-28 10:46 pm (UTC)I am feeling pretty much fuzzy but fine, so all will be well.
I was just checking out your photo essay! Very cool. Glad you're over your jetlag.
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Date: 2006-10-28 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-29 04:49 am (UTC)Nekkid Anson? I'm so there.
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Date: 2006-10-29 01:11 am (UTC)I turn my back for a minute and you go and get ill again....naughty girl.
I'm glad the morphine is doing its job, I really hope the doc gets you sorted asap.
Lucky you to have good veins, mine are impossible to find and anaesthetists and phlebotomists hate me. *g*
Can I call you tomorrow? (Sunday)
HUGS to you and take care of yourself....enjoy watching the boys.
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Date: 2006-10-29 04:48 am (UTC)Am not going anywhere tomorrow, so any time should be good.
*smooch*
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Date: 2006-10-29 09:01 pm (UTC)love you snookums ;)
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Date: 2006-10-29 10:26 pm (UTC)How is Dawn doing?
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Date: 2006-10-29 11:07 pm (UTC)She has been told she is cancer free.
Now she is in rehab and she is listed as having mestatic uterine cancer.
The first day she was in there a hospice nurse came in to give her information and was then reprimanded by the floor nurse for not speaking with her first. We are not sure if he chart calls for hospice or not. I have made contact with her doctor at rehab and he is going to speak to me about her condition. I am also going to ask this week if hospice is on her chart.
Her oncologist gave her every indication he would continue dealing with her in rehab and I finally had to ask at the nurse's desk for any of us to find out he is no longer her doctor. A couple of us asked her if we could have her permission to speak to her oncologist to get this straight. Dawn refused to give us permission.
She has a large, deep sacral wound from radiation burns. For a week she had an epidural that stopped the pain and left her mind clear. It was accidentally pulled out by a nurse. Dawn will not have it re-inserted. She is completely paranoid about doing anything to upset the doctors or nurses.
She is getting large, regular amounts of morphine, percoset, ativan and diludan. Tomorrow they are adding fentanol. All of these opiates have proven to goof up her thinking in terrible ways and do not relieve her pain. The doctors all know this. At first they wanted her off the opiates, now they are hitting her with everything.
I do not know if the wound is healing or not. Even if it is, she cannot continue with this kind of pain. She regularly awakens in the middle of the night in terrible pain and with delusions she is in a mental hospital and makes frantic calls to friends. Yet she knows the epidural helped and just because the anesthesiologist has told her taking the fentanol orally (thus not giving her continuous relief) is easier she will not have the epidural replaced. I asked her today if this oral method really was easier and she would not answer me. She was fairly clear when I spoke to her. I admit she has made her decision so I have made mine. I am with her almost every day. At night, before going to bed, I turn my phone ringer to "off". She can call someone who has not spent all day with her when she panics. She knows what she is doing to those around her and she will not chose a wise way to alter this cycle. She's been making bad choices for a long time and this one I will not bear alone. She's got lots of other folks she can call so I do not feel she will be left alone in her distress.
I'm beginning to suspect things are not so good.
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Date: 2006-10-30 12:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-30 06:13 pm (UTC)Done the decorating yet? *grin*