Possibly one of the worst session ive had so far !
They called me in an hour early as a machine was free ...yay!
I got on later than i normally do. I had to hang around for an hour and half after all that . They decided to try me with a different artificial kidney, to see if i was having a reaction to that ...nope ! Im managed to do my 4 hours without my morphine , but not through choice ! As usual the pain started to show signs of kicking in so i called the nurse over and he decided to start pressing buttons on my machine and keep me talking for 20 mins or so . I asked him what he was changing on my machine as we had already agreed the set up for yesterday , some speeds reduced etc, and basically he came out with a load of waffle, i dont think he realized how much i knew about the machine. Anyway we stopped the fluid for 20 mins to see if that changed anything and my BVM started to rise, so i started to pull fluid off again and bang the pain kicked in. By this time i only had that 'last' hour to do , so i called another nurse over, she asked me lots of questions , in the nicest way to see if she could come up with any ideas.By the time we had finished , i decided not to have the morphine because it takes half hour to kick in (its not iv) so that would have left me with 12mins to do ...not worth it . By now the pain was as bad as ever and the nurse came to take me off, now i was coughing a lot so tried to keep my head turned out of the way while she was taking me off (tunnel line in neck) I thought she had finished and turned to see , only to see from my lines she hadnt given me any washback , great! Not only that ive recently had 2 blood transfusions and a good % of my blood was still in those lines ! I stood up to go and the room started spinning and my left eye was very blurred (good job i wasnt driving!) Anyway i made it out and had a good drink of water. When i got home the pain was so bad i was going crazy. I took 2 clonazepam , which chilled me out a bit and the pain started to lift a bit. Luckily today im ok
Im going to make sure i get the morphine on tuesday , but i studied my machine so much yesterday and i will put money on it , its the shift in fluid that is doing this , if thats the case im stuffed ...arent i ?
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