deedee, daughter, & demerol

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Hi yall,

I have been trying to catch up a little on reading your posts, but I was

stopped in my tracks by deedee's. It sounds so familiar to our story with my

son Cameron. There was one reply (I forget who from<sorry>) regarding

demerol. Our experience in Ft. Worth has been that they rotate demerol and

morphine every 2 days for pain while Cameron is in the hospital. Once, 2 years

ago,

they forgot to rotate it and Cam was left on the demerol for 4 days. He

developed the seizures and has resulting heart issues from their little

screw-up. Now, when he is hospitalized, they only use morphine.

I am at my wit's end on handling his chronic pain (but not necessarily

daily) because of the ongoing assault by dr's and specialists " concerned " for

his continuing drug use. (He takes darvocet most often.) I say, relieve his

pain.....and we'll GLADLY drop the demerol, darvocet, morphine and everything

else!

I will post later..........but wanted to let deedee know there ARE

answers, but they are difficult to find sometimes.

Donna in Ft. Worth, TX