Re: Diane Re: My day from hell..Vent

April 18, 2008

I hope you feel even better tommorow.

Morphine is a good drug at times , as a paramedic i have given it on many

occassions. I however am allergic to it and didn't realize it until my last ER

visit oh bubba was that some bad crap.

but we are all at the mercy of doctors aren't we.

Diane

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Diane Re: My day from hell..Vent

I had my gall bladder out last August. They did check for gall stones because

even without a gall bladder you can still get stones. That was negative. They

didn't do x-rays they just did blood work, urine sample and ultrasound.

I still hurt. Not as bad as this morning so maybe the massive morphine I got

today is finally kicking in! lol

in NM

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April 19, 2008

Hi Diane,

Are you still working as a paramedic? That sounds like great, but hard work.

I am allergic to morphine too. It's written in RED all over my charts at my

doctors' offices and when I've had surgery it's all over the charts there. Was

even on a sign at the end of my hospital bed.

Alter the last surgery I had when I was taken to the recovery room while I was

still quite groggy, I felt the symptoms of a morphine reaction just starting and

tried to scream, but it came out in a whisper, that I could tell I was having

morphine in my IV and to stop. Thank God my daughter was standing right there

and understood me and made the nurse stop. I only had a mild reaction because

it got stopped right away.

My blood pressure goes sky high and I start not being able to breathe. It

feels like an anxiety attack coupled with an asthma attack. The doctors say I

could die from it. Because I had started having a reaction I had to stay in the

recovery room all night, instead of going back to my room, so they could monitor

me all night. They kept waking me up to see if I was alright. I also had to

stay in the hospital an extra day. ( I have to pay $500/day when I'm in the

hospital. Needless to say I had to have it put on a payment plan.)

My daughter said NO MORPHINE (in red) was written on a big card hanging from

the arm of the IV pole and on the chart.

Like you said - at the mercy of the care givers.

Take care,

Marti

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