4/28 B-Day events

Happpy Birthday got diluted with confused and grumpy.....seems quite reasonable really, when you consider spending your 59th birthday in the cardiac ward with 25 staples across your stomach and still attached with tubes to constant beepers. Birthday meals started with the nurses bringing him a birthday cupcake....which his family was instrusted to eat and not share with him. His first liquid meal- appropriately .. Italian lemon ice, broth, jello, juice and popcicles. It is amazing to think of his body receiving anything one week after being replumbed. Modern medicine at work. Still, it took me all afternoon to figure out what was off. Jim's irritability became more understandable when I realized the morphine drip had been stopped @ 10am and when asked by the nurse if he had pain he shrugged it off (his pain tolerence is very high). As the day progressed he was waring thin from discomfort. He did'nt realizing he needed to ask for meds. He got drugs and is resting much more comfortably.......now I am envious thinking I could use the same of the same.

Goodnight,
Kaye