Drug Dilemma

The last 4 days have been pretty painful ones. I've been trying to cut down on the narcotics without the using Tylenol as a crutch because, frankly, Tylenol does nothing for me. I may as well be taking sugar pills for all I can tell. Plus, one less drug in my body is always a-ok with me. I am requiring the same amount of pain meds now as I was when I was taken out of the hospital. There has been no improvement pain-wise except for a couple good mornings (which invariably turned into bad afternoons). However, the narcotics are slowing down things in my bowels and we need to get that stuff going. We especially don't want there to be another obstruction. So the doctors are hoping that, if they lower my amount of narcotics then things start moving in my tummy and then I start to feel better. Granted, I should be trying to eat some normal food during this time and get a little exercise to help things along.

So, being the good patient that I am, I've been cutting down on the narcotics. Unfortunately things have been really painful lately. I feel like I just had surgery or something. So my way of coping with the pain now is to lie dow in the recliner or bed and not move. And maybe use my heating pad sometimes. The pain also ensures that my meager appetite is swept away. So much for diet and exercise...

As for sleep...well, without the copious amount of narcotics in my system that ensure I can sleep whenever I want to, I've been forced to start using my Ambien again.

I'm also on this new antibiotic for my UTI. It makes me very, very nauseous so now I'm basically eating nothing. I mean, even when I was in the hospital I could at least finish a can of Boost. Not anymore. I have half a can of that stuff nowadays and I feel like I just came out of an all-you-can-eat buffet. So, now I'm turning to my heavy duty nausea medication.

So, as you can see we have something of a dilemma here. And after spending half of last night on the toilet I've come to the conclusion that my bowel obstruction may have come back. My doctor had offered to do another CT scan last time I saw her, but at the time we didn't really feel it was necessary. Now I want the CT scan. My mom is going to call some doctors today because we really need to get some medication routine that works going on here. I just hope I don't have to go back to the hospital and/or have more surgery.

In other news, the rats and cats are doing a very good job of taking care of me. Velvet has learned very well that she is now allowed to touch or walk on my stomach. I also successfully saved my computer from a horrible, horrible virus yesterday. All I can say is thank You God for System Restore and the fact that I back up everything. Okay, okay, my dad helped me conquer the evil virus a little.

Becca