Fishing weather was perfect - cool, partly sunny, not breezy and I caught one nice sea-run and Ken caught two in the 20" range before the tides pushed us off the beach. So Monday was a nice day for fishing but I could not seem to get the pain out of my left leg and it was very difficult to climb in and out of the guide's truck. That night I found I was taking 4 oxycodone with no effect and Tuesday a.m. was back in the SCCA offices asking "OK, what now?". The answer is I'm in a UW hospital bed for a couple of days and now it's the docs playing mad scientist.
{Spoiler - a good portion of this paragraph is very detailed stuff about meds and timing and pain and is here more for my MPIP followers, so you can just pass if you don't want all this detail} I checked in about 2:30pm and Amy and An came along with all my stuff like laptop, changes of clothes, etc. and hung around until about 6. The plan is to get the pain controlled with morphine and steroids and then get me in to have more MRI's done on my spine and also brain (more on that later). But I learned a good lesson why you should not allow yourself to get as dehydrated as I was/am - it took almost an hour for three nurses to get a satisfactory IV in me for infusion and blood tests. I was so dry my veins were not co-operative at all. By the time the third nurse (this time the IV Nurse Specialist) got one in I'd been poked four times unsuccessfully and one time semi-so. Whew. It was too late for any scans and I'd gone from pain being at a 7-8 to an 8-9, during that time. We started with a 2mg injection of morphine, then another 2mg, then another 4mg, and that finally got me down to tolerable pain (4-5) A couple hours later another 4, still just tolerable relief, then 2 hours later the pain actually started in increase with 4 so they put me on self-administered drip. I find 6mg seems to work, and then was actually able to sleep 5 hours and just woke up an hour or so ago feeling fairly good and pain free. I'm gradually getting 6mg back in my body and we'll see. And then we'll be off to do the scans this morning some time.
About the brain thing. On Sunday I had a little incident, lasting only a millisecond and not since repeated, where for just a moment my body gyroscopes turned off and I veered off course. Didn't fall or pass out (was near something to lean on) but a bit concerning nevertheless. So we'll take a closer look at the brain tumor and see if there has been any change there.
What we will do after all these scans is speculative so I'll just sign off now and we'll talk again when I know more. Take care - time to try UW Husky Hospital breakfast - Go Dawgs!
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