Tuesday, May 5, 2009

David

I kept waiting to do a post about David cause I wanted to take a picture of him. His skin color looks good, but he is having a very hard time with pain. He goes to the doc twice a week, his labwork shows that the kidney is working great and the incision looks good, but he's hurting. He's hurting all the time. Rusty hasn't slept all night except twice in 2 weeks when other people spent the nite, because David is awake and moaning off and on all night. Various docs are talking, and done some extra tests looking for infection, but so far nothing and everyone is baffled. At first the muscle relaxant helped, now it doesn't seem to make any difference. The pain killer oxycodone doesn't make a dent in it, and the sleeping pill ambien is only working for a few hours at a time. It's hard to not be discouraged right now.

1 comment:

JP2E said...

I am so sad that David is in such discomfort. Medicine can be exasperating at times because it is not exact. Doctors have a difficult time diagnosing and treating pain. I do hope that they solve this mystery soon so that David can finally enjoy his new kidney.