Category: Family Matters

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the morphine drip was not approved

….for home use. Not that it did much anyway. My pain is back to where it was early in the day on Friday, which is a start. You’d think I’d be entitled to a little more relief given that I’m on painkillers, muscle relaxants and steriods (good thing I’m not a competetive athelete, I’d be busted for sure).

A trip to the PA today gained me another painkiller (wait to try it once I’m in for the night) and an appt for an MRI. PT has been put on hold until the MRI is read, so that they know a little more about what they are dealing with.

HAPPIER THINGS

The monkey is back 100%! She is eating, playing and generally, being a monkey. Our best new toy?? A diaper wipe container filled with Q-tips and an empty basket. Load all the q-tips in the container, take them out a couple at a time, close the lid, put them in the basket. Repeat until container is empty. Then reverse. Does it get any better than that?!?!?

Other GREAT things: she now has a sound for the word Fish–sort of a swooshing sound. She also now adds “shhh” (different from the sound for fish) when we read Good Night Moon and we get to the part where there’s a “quiet old lady whispering hush”. And she can now climb in and out of her carseat!!

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Doped Up

Yesterday did not go as planned. Remember how I said I had an EMG earlier this week?? Well, yesterday I called to follow up, and to let the Doc know that my leg pain was getting worse–much worse. The PA had my results, and told me that yes. I do have a pinched nerve, I’d be getting an order for some PT, and since the pain was back, she’d call in some medication.

The medication (strong anti-inflammatory) did NOTHING. Didn’t touch the pain AT ALL. I was miserable all evening (couldn’t even lift M ). L put M to bed, and I was still in pain. When I started crying because I couldn’t put on my socks, L told me to get in the car, we were headed to the ER. I felt awful about it–dragging M out at 9pm, but we had no other choice.

In the ER I told the doc the deal, and he promised he’d get the pain under control until I can get into the office on Monday. So I took an oral steroid, and got TWO shots. One was an anti-inflammatory, the other MORPHINE. Here’s the kicker–an hour later, I was still in pain. It took another shot of morphine to get any relief whatsoever. And really, it just relaxed the rest of me–it didn’t touch my leg pain at all.

I got in at about 12:30 last night, L dropped me off and took M___through a drive through 24 hour pharmacy to get my prescriptions, they rolled in about 1:15am. What troopers.

The kicker? I was awake by 7:30, M by 8am!! And while my back muscles have relaxed, my leg still hurts. It’s tolerable, but not as good as I think it should be, given that I am on FOUR different kinds of meds to control swelling and pain. Yikes!

I’m hoping the PT helps, and then maybe the therapist will have a magic wand to wave?!?! Maybe I can get a morphine drip for home?

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Healed

I think it is safe to announce that Baby Girl is almost completely better!! She’s been awake more, eating more, the rash is almost gone, the green oozing is done, and she’s, well, back to her fiesty self. What a relief!!

A Different Subject All Together

When I originally got the phone call, I didn’t think that it was overly odd. It wasn’t till I actually started to recount the story that I started thinking, “WTF?”

Last week I got a phone call confirming L’s upcoming dental appt. We knew that it would be an expensive co-pay, and the receptionist calling kindly quoted the amount so that we would be prepared on Monday morning.

Then she added, “You know, we are currently running a special right now to help people catch up on deliquent accounts. Your account is in good standing, but I’ll extend the offer to you anyway. If you pay in cash on Monday, you’ll save 10%.”

“Oh cool. So is a check or direct debit card OK?” I ask, jazzed about a potential discount.

“No, it actually has to be cash.”

Ok! Thankfully our bank (in Meijer, of course) has Saturday counter hours, because the amount needed was beyond what I could take out at the ATM in one shot. I sent L off to the dentist with more actual cash then we usually touch in a month (having a cash back debit card).

In hindsight, it was very mafia-esque. I mean, they’ll have to deposit the cash just like they’d have to deposit a check. They are going through our insurance company, so it’s not like it’s an unrecorded, under the table transaction.

Am I wrong here? Am I missing something?