Apr 15 2008
Two Hospitals and Too Many Medications Later..
Please accept my apologies in advance for any poor typing or things that just don’t make sense!
I’ve had an interesting weekend, starting early Thursday morning. I drove into Vancouver for my afternoon shift, in extreme pain because of my back. I believe that I was swearing out loud to myself to try to relieve some of the pain I was experiencing.
When I got to work, it was very clear to everyone that I was in no shape to attempt a regular route of work, so I was offered the easiest field task I could have possibly been offered, but after 5 minutes of driving there, I was in so much pain, I returned to the office in tears. A couple of the supervisors lay me down and offered to call an ambulance for me, but I told them that my wife was coming. At this point, I could barely walk, sit or stand. I had to be helped info lying down face first.
After my wife arrived and loaded me into the car, we drove off to Burnaby General Hospital, because we were familiar with it. After waiting 2 hours, I got a morphine shot and some tablets and was sent home.
They did virtually nothing for the pain.
So, the next morning, we went to our local hospital. We were taken in right away, the doctor accessed me and figured that since I’m seeing the neurosurgeon for my back on Tuesday (today), that he’d prescribe my stronger pain killers, and introduce them to my through IV.
So.. now that I’m on Percocet, the pain is gone, and to a degree, my preception of time is too..
I feel for you Cam. I went through the same thing. The Dr. prescribed me Perks as well. And while they did help, they also made it difficult to function for the first bit. But once you get used to them it gets easier. Just be careful with Perks. They are highly addictive I found. When it was time for me to stop taking them I had to gradually reduce the amount and frequency. I had some serious withdrawl doing so but you can’t stop them cold turkey. You should see if the Dr. will put you on some non-narcotic and non-addictive meds like Tramacet. Much easier to handle.
Thanks Luc..
It’s been a rough week.. Actually, I don’t remember most of it. I seem to have slept through most of it.
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