Day Three

Day three was not so good. He was really sick. My first thought was he was not eating, so pain meds on an empty stomach doesn't mesh well. WRONG! Empty stomach was right...pain meds, absent.

Apparently, in the first bad experience he's had at this hospital so far, he wasn't getting his pain medication yesterday. His patch fell out and 3 different nurses tried to find a vein and couldn't. So they called in a special tech that searches for veins via ultrasound. He didn't answer his page until after the fifth one.

Needless to say, Dad suffered and was pissed. He was so sick, tired and in such pain and he was not a priority. It seems his cardiologist got onto the nurses as well....why couldn't they think of an alternate type of pain management to give him while waiting for the ultrasound tech? Poor guy...he doesn't get to take the strongest of pain meds anyway, and to give him none altogether...that's ridculous.

I hope Thursday brings a better day for him. He called my aunt this morning, that's a sign to me that he feels better then yesterday. It's a beautiful day out, the temp is supposed to have dropped to the low 80's. It's breezy and sunny....a fresh new day is just what we all need.