We are finally in a room... Just a temporary one as all beds are full right now. The procedure itself went well as far as I've heard. But we thought she had outgrown the psychosis state she gets from the anesthetic when waking so did things the normal way. We were wrong... And this was one of the worst and longest in years; taking nearly 45 min to break the state she was in. Which was not pretty as she was screaming and crying hysterically at the top of her lungs that she couldn't see, couldn't sleep, screaming repeatedly in a mantra with no words or touches from us getting thru to her, screamed about the pain, was thrashing about horribly and caused herself a ton of pain from the excessive movements since she wasn't to move at all for several hrs after the procedure. They also didn't give her pain meds coming out so that increased her agitation. Took 2 doses of IV morphine to control the pain, and two types of anti-nausea IV doses to help with that as her worked up state had caused intense pain plus the procedure irritates her stomach of course. For some reason the meds thru IV injection was burning her and caused her veins to turn dark red under the skin as well and caused her immense amount of pain. She also in her psychosis state caused herself a nasty headache. Everything is finally under control now just some pain still from the drain, and we are just waiting on seeing a dr as to what occurred, what they saw, when she can eat, why there is no bag on the drain, and why she's not being given antibiotics to prevent infection as doing what they did and her being immunosuppressed greatly increases the chances of sepsis again. Somehow though in her psychosis she remembered her Cloucho and would scream for it and clutch it to herself tightly or roll into a ball with it to try to help her pain and fear that she was blind. I'm glad she had that to help her through such extreme distress ♥ thank you Fran for making it for her, and Wanda for requesting one and getting it for her!!
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