Re: OT - Crash Update

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Stan Horwitz said:

Best of luck to Crash and you Damsel. I hope both hip replacements

are a

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success. My dad had one hip replaced two years ago and he is doing

much

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better as a result, so hopefully Crash will experience the same or
better improvement after his surgery and recovery is over.

Thanks, Stan. I'm expecting him to feel a thousand times better by
mid-June.

I called the doc this morning and he had us stop the pain patches and
go back to just oral meds. He's a lot more lucid tonight - actually,
better in every respect. No burning clothing today at all. <G> I
might just be able to sleep tonight.
To those who have offered their support, I don't have the time to
answer every post, so I've just been responding to the most recent.
But I've read all of them now, and I'm overwhelmed by how caring
everyone is. If you're gonna be part of a dysfunctional family, RFC is
the one to be part of. 🙂
Thanks everyone,
Carol and Crash

Yeah - they don't tell you that a common side effect to morphoids is itchy
skin. I guess if it's real bad, it might feel like burning... I dunno what
those ICU nurses must have thought about me squirming in the bed. Honestly
thought it was sweat or something making me itch. But it goes away real
quick when you can stop taking them.
Edrena

The Joneses said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Stan Horwitz wrote:

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I called the doc this morning and he had us stop the pain patches

and

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go back to just oral meds. He's a lot more lucid tonight -

actually,

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better in every respect. No burning clothing today at all. <G>

Yeah - they don't tell you that a common side effect to morphoids is

itchy

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skin. I guess if it's real bad, it might feel like burning... I dunno

what

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those ICU nurses must have thought about me squirming in the bed.

Honestly

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thought it was sweat or something making me itch. But it goes away

real

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quick when you can stop taking them.
Edrena

He's back to being Crash today. When we woke up this afternoon, I
looked at him and said, "Welcome back!" Those patches were really
doing a number on him.

He didn't have burning of the skin, btw. He was literally setting his
pants on fire with lit cigarettes. But his face was drenched with
sweat that came back as fast as we could blot it away. Now all is
well. He's in pain, but he's a person again, and all of us (including
the dogs and cat) are very grateful for that.

Gotta run and pick up some prescriptions. I hope to have more good
news as the weekend progresses.

Thanks again, everyone 🙂
Carol and Crash

One time on Usenet, "Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> said:

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He's back to being Crash today. When we woke up this afternoon, I
looked at him and said, "Welcome back!" Those patches were really
doing a number on him.

My mother had to use pain patches when she was dying from lung cancer,
as did a dear friend with bone cancer. Neither of them were at all like
themselves -- the friend is in remission now and off of the patches; she
seems ten years younger.

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He didn't have burning of the skin, btw. He was literally setting his
pants on fire with lit cigarettes. But his face was drenched with
sweat that came back as fast as we could blot it away. Now all is
well. He's in pain, but he's a person again, and all of us (including
the dogs and cat) are very grateful for that.

Gotta run and pick up some prescriptions. I hope to have more good
news as the weekend progresses.

Glad to hear things are improving, Carol -- keep a good thought, I
know everything will be okay in the end... :-)

--
Jani in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same
way that bricks don't" - D. Adams, HGTTG

(Gal Called Jani) said:

One time on Usenet, "Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> said:

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He's back to being Crash today. When we woke up this afternoon, I
looked at him and said, "Welcome back!" Those patches were really
doing a number on him.

My mother had to use pain patches when she was dying from lung cancer,
as did a dear friend with bone cancer. Neither of them were at all like
themselves -- the friend is in remission now and off of the patches; she
seems ten years younger.

It's horrible what those things do to people. Fortunately, they do seem to
help a lot with the pain. I'm very sorry to hear about your mother.
Cancer is such a vicious disease.

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Stan Horwitz <[email hidden]> said (in another thread):

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Crash is well enough to go out to eat to Applebee's now? That's great
news!

He's well enough, but at this point, the budget doesn't allow for
Applebee's right now. We wound up going to Wendy's. He ate half of a
baked potato and a spicy chicken sandwich. This was his first meal in two
weeks. Hopefully, he'll continue to eat, now that he's done it
successfully. We'll probably hit Applebee's a few days before the surgery.
He'll have the sirloin steak, and I'll have the babyback ribs. We've
fallen into a very pleasant rut.

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I hope Crash is getting real relief from his pain.

He put the last of the five patches on this morning. He is still lucid. I
think the problems occur when the fentynal builds up in your system. He
didn't start getting sloppy drunk-like until he'd been on the patch for a
week. We're going to keep an eye on things. If he can get through the
three day cycle on the patches without getting mooshy-brained, we'll talk
to the doctor about putting him on a schedule of three days on and three
days off (took 3 days for him to become normal when he stopped using them).
The patches offer a lot of pain relief. I'm hoping that this will be a
viable option for him.

Carol

On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:26:47 -0500, Damsel <[email hidden]>

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He put the last of the five patches on this morning. He is still lucid. I
think the problems occur when the fentynal builds up in your system. He
didn't start getting sloppy drunk-like until he'd been on the patch for a
week. We're going to keep an eye on things.

Hmmmmmmmm...Fentanyl has a very short half life, which means it
doesn't last very long. Like less than a half hour, if I remember
correctly.
Not sure if it can build up in your system like that.... I never heard
of it doing that, but I could be totally wrong on this.

Christine

One time on Usenet said:

(Gal Called Jani) said:

One time on Usenet, "Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> said:

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He's back to being Crash today. When we woke up this afternoon, I
looked at him and said, "Welcome back!" Those patches were really
doing a number on him.

My mother had to use pain patches when she was dying from lung cancer,
as did a dear friend with bone cancer. Neither of them were at all like
themselves -- the friend is in remission now and off of the patches; she
seems ten years younger.

It's horrible what those things do to people. Fortunately, they do seem to
help a lot with the pain. I'm very sorry to hear about your mother.

Thanks, hon.

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Cancer is such a vicious disease.

Yeah, the timing was terrible too -- she died less than a month
before I had my one and only child. I wish she could have seen
him before she went...

--
Jani in WA ~ mom, vid gamer, novice cook ~
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same
way that bricks don't" - D. Adams, HGTTG

"Christine Dabney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:26:47 -0500, Damsel <[email hidden]>

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He put the last of the five patches on this morning. He is still lucid.
I
think the problems occur when the fentynal builds up in your system. He
didn't start getting sloppy drunk-like until he'd been on the patch for a
week. We're going to keep an eye on things.

Hmmmmmmmm...Fentanyl has a very short half life, which means it
doesn't last very long. Like less than a half hour, if I remember
correctly.
Not sure if it can build up in your system like that.... I never heard
of it doing that, but I could be totally wrong on this.

Christine

I could sure tell when my IV supply ran out.

Christine Dabney said:

On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:26:47 -0500, Damsel <[email hidden]>

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He put the last of the five patches on this morning. He is still lucid. I
think the problems occur when the fentynal builds up in your system. He
didn't start getting sloppy drunk-like until he'd been on the patch for a
week. We're going to keep an eye on things.

Hmmmmmmmm...Fentanyl has a very short half life, which means it
doesn't last very long. Like less than a half hour, if I remember
correctly.
Not sure if it can build up in your system like that.... I never heard
of it doing that, but I could be totally wrong on this.

Dunno, but after he started taking it, he gradually became more and more
disoriented, with slurred speech, virtually no depth perception, and was
unable to get out of bed or sit upright in a chair. Took a week to get
that bad, then it just kept getting worse and worse.

We're seeing the doctor in the morning about maybe using patches of a lower
dosage, or changing meds altogether. I'm not sure what he has in mind, but
he asked us to come in. I'll report back.

Carol