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By Daniel McNabb

I want to share with you what has transpired since I left the post yesterday that Teresa was going to the hospital.  Let me first say that I have never seen her in such pain, even with the pain medications she takes it was not near enough.  We had to call 911 and get the fireman and paramedics to get her down the stairs in a stretcher because she couldn’t walk.

Then the long waiting began at the hospital, nothing goes quick there.  We do get VIP treatment because of the cancer and never have to wait in the waiting room,  that’s about as far as it goes.  Kelli took her little brother and sisters home with her at 10pm, thank you God, and Kelli.  A 1 hour wait for pain med’s,  3 hour wait for CT scan, 6 hour wait for ultrasound, wow,  it’s 3am.   Doctor told us the good news, no fracture, no bleeding or anything else causing the pain.  Wait, did I say good news?  Then what is causing all of this pain?

They told us that they couldn’t do anything and it’s probably  the cancer and that we could stay in the bed till morning.  I went home to get Teresa some clothes, medications and I got 2 hours of sleep.  I got back at the hospital to see Teresa in the same amount of pain that she had been in for the last 16 hours.  She said that even her other parts of the body hurt now.  A doctor came in and I asked her what the liquid pain med that they where giving her equaled  in Morphine.  “Oh” the doctor said proudly,  “It’s 10 times the strength of 1mg of Morphine.”   “And how much and often have you been giving her this?” I asked.  “1 dose per hour”  she stated.   So I did the math quickly in my head, they are giving her the equal of 10mg of Morphine per hour so that would be 120mg for 12 hours.  AAAGGGGGHHHH, no wonder she’s in so much pain!  That is half of the dose she takes just to control the regular pain.  All of her medications and the dosages are on the computer monitor in the room, no excuses, they dropped the ball.

I then laid out all her medications that I brought from home on the stand next to the hospital bed and started dispersing them to Teresa.  She got dressed and I wheeled her out of the room and the hospital, both of us exhausted and Teresa still suffering.  We called Dennis and Leenie and they met us at the house to help me get Teresa up the stairs in the wheelchair.  Thank you brother and sister for doing that, without you we couldn’t have gotten her into the house.

Here’s the kicker, yesterday during the day Teresa was getting an extra 60mg of Morphine IR every couple of hours for breakthrough pain, it wasn’t working.  This morning in the er room I gave her just a little extra of the Morphine CR, within  an hour of that she wasn’t feeling as much pain.  Later in the day I went to give her the afternoon medications and when I wrote them down I realized something.  I had not given her anymore medications for pain since the morning and no breakthrough Morphine.  She felt much better and the pain in the hip and leg were gone.

God does answer prayers.  All of you that woke up this morning and got your rss or email notice that I posted about Teresa going to the hospital started to pray.  Then you told others to pray for her and God answered.  Thank you to all of you that prayed for her today, you touched someones life.  God Bless.