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ETH! Welcome back! I'm glad that you aint daid.
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Ditto to that!
The only bad thing about the warm embrace of morphine is the damned constipation that comes with it.
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Well....when you're taking Senokot by the fistfulls, the constipation just doesn't seem to occur!
Have you ever had a Foley's catheter?
It's the shizznitt!
Especially when they took it out too soon and had to reinsert it while I was wide awake at 4:00 AM!
It's one thing when you're under sedation in the Operating Room, quite another when you're not!
Eric The(<gack!>)Hun
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FORGET THAT!!!
Four years ago after my last shoulder surgery, I was in the hospital all doped up the next day and this nursy kept coming in asking if I'd peed yet? (My missus was there too.) I told the young lady no because I wasn't too keen on that then...I had just given myself another dose of the morphine and was feeling no pain. She brought me a metal bottle and told me to keep trying.
After the third try into the bed "receptical" I just gave up and said to hell with it...I'll pee when I'm ready!
Then said nursy comes back in and informs me that she's going to have to use a "foley"...whatever that is. I had NO clue...so I just blew her off. The morphine was really working well then and I just wanted to sleep.
At that point, Miz LWilde says, "Wilde, do you KNOW what she is talking about doing? Don't you KNOW what a Foley is?" I said no...and she began to 'splain it to me!
WHOA!!! I told her and the nursy to help me get my butt vertical and I baby-stepped into the restroom, tugging a bottle tree and some silly machines along behind me. Then I just stood there until she got a little stream. Not much...but enough. NO WAY that gal was sticking something up MY little buddy!
Hun...you have my sympathies!