What Happened... Last Week...

Update:


Monday 1am, I awoke screaming as my right leg felt like it was on fire. Took two T3s and it finally settled after 90 minutes of crying and yelling.


Wednesday 10pm, took 2xT3s and went to sleep. Woke screaming @ 12:00am. Doctor on call told me to call 911. I waited... Around 2:30am pain had subsided but I could feel it returning. I called 911.


When at SMH emergency they gave me a shot of morphine which only made me sleepy, it didn't touch the pain.  We were finally given a little room w/a bed and a chair to wait for Dr to make his rounds. I tried to stay awake but couldn't. We fell asleep. They forgot about me and I missed seeing the Doctor when he did his rounds. :'(


I woke at 7:15am and immediately got in a wheelchair to go potty. En route, as I passed nurses station, pain came back full force. I told them that I need something for the pain & proceded to cry & scream in agony. (Not my best moment. :( So many people around too. Probably scared some of the patients but I couldn't help it.)  Husband took me back to my room & nurse came in angrily asking what they needed to do to help? I had no idea! I told her that T3s & morphine didn't touch the pain & that I had no idea what to do. Doctor gave nurse approval for Demerol. 30 mins after the shot the pain subsided. I was finally pain free! First time in over a year!  We left the hospital around 9am.

I got to see my doctor that afternoon. Prescription for Oxycoton (or some such painkiller) & told that I have to stop going to school, gym & cannot work for 2-3 months. (Son took me to Dr and has been very kind & helpful throughout. Wish he were like this all the time...)


Friday: the prescription is for 1-2 pills every 6 hrs. Since Thursday I'd been taking 1 every 6 hrs but when I woke up that morning, which was at the 3 hr mark, there was the beginning of the burning down my leg & my right foot was number (I know that looks like number but it's numb with more intensity. :) ) than it was the day before & I could hardly bear my weight on it.


I wasn't able to go to the washroom because I couldn't put any weight on my right side; I could not relax enough to go. :(


I finally took 1/2 a pill & the pain became bearable & less frightening again. So, for now, I'm taking 1 pill every 6 hrs & 1/2 a pill at the halfway mark, every 6 hrs.


Next doctor's appt. is on Tuesday to see how it's going.


It's been so very terrifying as I can do nothing when the pain hits, nothing. It's very scary.


When I originally wrote up this update I received a call from Dr's office: CT Scan set for Saturday morning @ 7:45am!!! PTL!!!


My doctor had tried to get me one before Christmas but was told that an MRI was preferred by the RCH. A few weeks ago I was finally given the date for the MRI: June 25th, 2011!  18 months away!!


Since seeing me Thursday she was able to raise the urgency level & it seems to have worked!


I've not only been on our church's prayer list but on an international one I found through Twitter. Prayer is covetted as my hands are tied as have been my doctor's. Any prayer lists you are aware of? Please add my name to it!!

Thanks,

Lea