At midnight, Mom woke up in a sweat and her mouth was locked shut. She could not believe the pain she was in. It had escalated in her sleep and now it was about unbearable. Do you remember me mentioning a couple posts ago that Dr. Jeong had ordered a pain pump? Well, Mom kept telling the nurses to hold off and finally she said she didn't want it. It was just more medication. "How does all this medicine know where to go?" she said.
Well, now she wants it. She buzzed the nurse and started to get her mouth open so she could talk. When the nurse came in, she said "I changed my mind, I'll take the pain pump now." Sadly to say, since she refused it earlier, the only way to get it was to call Dr. Jeong and have him reorder it.
"Absolutely not!" No way in the world was Mom going to wake up Dr. Jeong at midnight when she should have listened to him in the first place. "I'll be ok. As soon as he calls in the morning, ask him then."
So, she coated her tongue and used the sponge-on-a-stick and tried to rest as much as possible. She didn't sleep much rest of the night, and at 9:00 a.m. Beka, her nurse, brought in a pain killer. She got 1 does right away in her IV, then they hooked up the pain pump. She can hit it 1 time every 10 minutes, as needed.
Boy did that do the trick! She got very sleepy and saw cats jumping on her bed and up towards her head and a bunch of other weird stuff.
After she awoke from her drug-induced state, her mouth was feeling much better. It was day-and-night difference. She was ready for a shower, drank a glass of water and swallowed her chemo pills with no problem. Was it too good to be true? Yes! All that water she drank came splattering back out! Her belly hadn't had anything since Saturday at noon, and now a whole glass of water was flooding it. But not for long. From now on she'll drink slowly... and the morale of this story is: Dr. Jeong is always right!
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