Jackie in hospital...

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Hey all,

I need a laptop computer, I hate being without my internet. Anyways,

Jackie has been in the hospital since Tues. Her enzymes, liver

profiles, and triglycerides (sp?) were elevated. Wednesday the

lipase were even higher, after being only on iv and iv pain meds.

Nothing is touching her pain, she has had shots of nubain (sp?),

toradol (sp?), demerol, morphine. Nothing helping, today they put a

fentanal (sp?) patch on her, at about noon. I wish I knew how long

it would take to work. Been a little over 3 hours and she says still

no pain relief. She gets 50 mg of demerol every 4 hours. She sits

and walks, she does not sleep, maybe four 15 minute naps since she

has been in the hospital. I have not slept either so I am sorry if I

make no sense in this note. Well my husband just called from the

hospital. I have been gone about 3 hours and JAckie has walked

almost the whole time. The only way she will not cry and be

histerical is to be walking. When her battery on her IV goes, she

paces back and forth in the room till we can unplug and go walking

the halls again, and this is all night. The nurses, some of them,

are actually hateful about it, one said if you would just lay down

and let the medicine work. Has any of you heard this before? She

was very abrupt about it. Then they say be careful, in which I am,

because she is on all this medicine. But they say it kinda rude. I

may be just a little on the ill side myself and taking things

personally. I would appreciate ya'lls input but I do not know when I

will be home. I am hoping she will be out of there in a couple days

but who knows. I have really never seen her like this. I don't have

the address to the hospital but the number to her room is

I guess this could be normal for the pain not to be helped but I am

not use to her just wanting to walk and walk...she usually wants to

lay very still. I will try to come home and check my email in a day

or two...I have met two people with pancreatitis at the hospital and

am trying to get them to join our wonderful group. Thanks to all of

you,