... but you wouldn’t know it at the clinic - not a 🌹 or a ❤️ insight!
Five days late and we are happy (not quite jolly) to be here for treatment! Bit of a tough ride (literally/figuratively) to get here! Even the doctor was treated to a 🤮 ( into a bag) in his office 😔 today! Into the chair and a bag of fluid and the change is instant! Then the precious drugs ... with (huge) hopes for some positive effects in the next two weeks.
We often lament about friends/family who need to take copious amounts of pills and suddenly here we are:
He’s gone from ZERO to ...
Fentanyl - (upped by 12 today) = 62micrograms
Panadol 💊 - 500 gms 2 x 4/day = 8
Coloxyl 💩 - 2 x 2/ day = 4
Movicol 💩 - 1sachet 2/day
OxyCodone 💊 10 ml - 1 x 6/day = 6
Maxolon 🤢 - 1 x 3/day = 3
TOTAL = 21 (tough) pills he swallows every day - day and night. ... we figure that until he starts the radiotherapy and the back pain is reduced - 4 hrs (less the 10-15 mins sitting up reading the computer while the pills slide down) is the biggest stretch of sleep we will enjoy. 💤
... and while we are “awake” I’m really looking forward to “chatting” with my 62mcgm Fentanyl-fuelled husband ... but we won’t be talking about Fentanyl because during our “discussion ” about how often he gets a new patch... I had heard the pharmacist say “... every 3 days” - so ON the 3rd day (at 9.00 a.m.) I was ready to pop on another patch (no math needed there)! Turns out HE knew that 3 days was *72hrs. Even in his Fentanyl-haze HE could do the math - HE knew the consequences of one day early! Needless to say my contract as the pain-killer nurse has been terminated!
*So why didn’t the pharmacist just say every 72 hrs?? 😢
P.S. do NOT take the 10 mg OxyContin anymore!!
No comments:
Post a Comment