Disappointment

Last night Mom's doctor came in to visit her at 10:30pm!  That seems so strange.  Anyway, at that time, she told him that she was starting to feel pain on her side again.  He examined her and found her to be quite sore in a certain spot and was wondering if she had fallen or hurt herself there at one time.  The pain seemed to be pretty bad so he made sure that she got some tylenol to be able to sleep that night.  It was very disappointing to hear that she was feeling pain again on her side.

During the night, she got up once and said that she was starting to feel the pain again, so we figured the tylenol was wearing off.  She slept ok the rest of the night though without taking anymore tylenol.  In the morning, she still had the pain and although it didn't seem to be as bad you could tell she had some pain.   But we had a good morning - she ate her breakfast, we opened "window number 6", we looked at Zell and listened to Christmas music.  We were also waiting to find out when she would be moved from the hospital to a skilled nursing facility.  I also asked the CNA if she could help Mom take a shower and she went to get her new gowns and towels in preparation for the shower.  While she was doing that, I went to the nurses station to find out if there were any updates on when she would be moved and was told it'd be at LEAST 2 more hours so I headed back to the room.  At about that time, two of our favorites there - Andy a student nurse and Brian an LVN came into the room to visit Mom.  When they asked her how she was doing, I was shocked to hear her say that she doesn't feel good at all and that her chest hurts - that it feels really tight.  Well, the two guys got concerned and immediately swung into action.  They took her vitals and her heart rate was high.  So, they did various other things and in the meantime I went to get her nurse.  The next thing I know they are calling in a rapid response team and I'm told I should wait outside since there were going to be a lot of people coming into the room.  And there were!  It got quite scary there for a while.  They changed mom's IV site after trying to administer morphine in her old site and it didn't go in.  But eventually things calmed down and Mom was resting comfortably. The rest of the time I was there with her today, she mostly slept, especially while the morphine was fresh.  She did eat her lunch which was good and she was able to get up to go to the bathroom later that afternoon.  But things were definitely not as good as they were yesterday.  It was a tough day.