Thanks. Hi. I'm not too worried about after the surgery. I assume I'll be on self-medicating morphine for the first 3 to 5 days, and then on my butt in bed for a while. This rescue of the bone surgery takes a lot longer to recover from (6 weeks) because they hollow out the dome of the femur to where you will break it if you stand on it. (6 weeks on crutches.) I'm sure it will be worth it.
It's the before hand I'm concerned about. Sitting on planes, seven hours in the museum, trying to walk in the desert. I'm taking my pillows, but ~ oh and also using a chair for the museum. MJ and Dash know they're going to be babysitting. But I also don't want to go nuts like the hydrocone did. As a matter of fact, I remember demanding to know from the prescriber, after the fact, if it had prednisone or some anti-inflammatory in it. I was completely weird and I knew it.
I've taken a lot of morphine, it works fine and I don't have trouble getting away from it. I once had the actual dosing on the machine set at night too high, and oh man, that was a problem. it was easier to let it wear off than tolerate the effect, wait til the last minute and hit the clicker. Then wham - total nausea. Try telling the nurses on night you're getting TOO MUCH morphine - you'll get the same response I got during the same stay when they put the parameter down too low. "Tell your doctor." Eff you, pancake. I ran into this unwillingness to cooperate only once, and I've been on those machines 4 or 5 times.
When I smashed my heels ( this I do not recommend for pain) they had me on some strong stuff, after 5 days of morphine in the hospital. That SOB hurts A LONG TIME. There were times I was almost screaming. After I got out of the hospital, in the transition home. I know Drs try to make you feel what you feel is legitimate, but the bone surgeon was very sympathetic and told me he knew of no other bone you could smash that would hurt as bad. "I'd rather break both my legs than a heel." "What about your back?" "Even that." I thot he was bullshitting, but I got confirmation in other places. I couldn't put weight on it for six months, and it still hurt like hell two years later. It's going away.
Didja see that 60 Minutes on people who can't get narcotics for pain? Sometimes I hate this country.
On a positive note, our two youngest kitties were born in a box, and you can set one on the floor without them running to get in it. |
