A change of nurse

I will never quiet grasp the hospital shift system. Our first nurse of the day is an 8 hour nurse so now we have a 4 hour nurse who will be replaced by a 12 hour nurse. I dunno as long as there is a nurse who responds when we call.

Frankly, today is very disappointing compared to where we were yesterday. The dilaudid still has not worked out of her system and Mary continues to sleep. The 4 hour nurse looked at the record and this morning Mary did sit in the chair for an hour and did walk after the chair. Then they gave her the dilaudid via epidural and she has been wiped out ever since. She does respond when you speak loudly in her face and she has said the pain is now a 3 on a scale of 10 (max).

And, she cannot go on neurontin because she is not allowed anything by mouth--food or drink and neurontin is pill form only in the USA (Europe has approved IV use). That's when they reconfirmed that she should use the fentanyl magic button more often. Its programmed to allow up to 6 hits per hour--if she pushes the button.

Waiting...