This is second-hand info from Peter’s phone call late morning and I hope I’ve gotten it straight: Jon got wheeled down to Diagnostic Imaging—in bed; no wheelchair quite yet—to get x-rays taken while his epidural is still in place (better to twist him into the correct position while he theoretically can’t feel anything).
Apparently there’s a lot more leakage from the epidural than previously, and the fact that Jon is in a lot more pain today seems to point to the epidural not working as well as it could. It looks as though he’ll have to be put on morphine and it will possibly set back our hospital release by a day. More details as we get them later.
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Laura says:
March 23, 2007 at 12:32 pm (UTC 0)
Peter reports that around noon Jon’s been put on morphine and had his epidural taken out. He’s now able to sleep peacefully and pain-free for the first time today. (It also gets rid of one set of tubes and an attached machine.) The resident seemed to think this would delay Jon’s release; the nurse doesn’t think it will. We’ll see.
Nana Tara says:
March 23, 2007 at 5:58 pm (UTC 0)
Yikes it’s awful to read about all the pain. Thank goodness the morphine is working and I have to say I’m glad the epidural’s out. I don’t like leakage.
I hope you Mom and Dad are getting enough sleep! Got to keep your strength up. Please tell Jon I think he is very brave! He’s amazing.
You two are pretty impressive yourselves.
Lots of love,
Nana Tara.