SculpturesThursday the 8th: Was very sick during the night. All the bad stuff – throwing up and later diarrhea, and a very terrible headache for about 12 hours that the pain medicine wouldn’t even touch – don’t know what it would have been without a pain pill. It finally went away in the morning. Spent the day in bed, except to get us some simple meals. Joe helped out too. Just did a lot of sleeping. Joan called me from Arizona and it was really good to hear from her.
Feeling pretty sick all day, but actually know I’m already feeling better. In fact have not had to take any night pain pills and so far this morning have not had any day pain pills either. And have not missed a pain pill pretty much since I started on them. But perhaps am going through some withdrawals by not taking them – mainly my stomach stays upset. And had to pay a big pill bill for some stronger pain med that I probably don’t need right now after all. I had been telling them that I had to have something stronger to get through the pain of the port – they gave me morphine sulfate. Now that the port is gone, the pain is better. I’ll probably need them anyway at some point in the future so will just save them. My drug plan insurance doesn’t want to give me the oxycontin any more, but it is the best at night. They want me to have the morphine sulfate and I don’t think it’s any of their business to be saying which prescriptions I should have. Anyway if I have the oxycontin any more I’ll probably have to pay for it all and it’s expensive. Still have two more Lovenox shots to give myself and then will be done with that.
