The Last Wednesday

We never have to go there on Wednesday again.

The issue now is pain. As of around midnight it became clear that the Vicodin is not strong enough. Next is either a pain patch or a liquid pain killer taken by mouth or through the feeding tube. The most important thing is to get the pain under control. The doc prescribed both; the patch is Fentanyl; each patch lasts for about 72 hours. The liquid is morphine sulfate; it lasts about three hours and you can take it as often as you need it. The patch doesn't kick in for about 48 hours so the morphine gets you there in relative comfort. He put on the patch as soon as we got home, took a swig of the morphine, and feels pretty good right now. Perhaps the morphine will help ease the pain of the election results, too.

We took a short walk this evening. First time in several days. That morphine is a little bit of OK. I can see why there are some who want to make it very hard to get. As long as it offers relief from extreme pain I'm all for it. The doc even talked to us about addiction! But it causes serious constipation. Why would you get addicted to something that does that, unless you also get addicted to Ex-Lax?

Tomorrow is going to be a rough day with both radiation and chemo. But again, it's the last Thursday and the last chemo. In the wake of all of this is one very sick, debilitated guy who is sick and tired of being sick and tired.