Not an eventful day so far. Jim woke at 1:30 and again at 2:30 to self-cath, but no pain until nearly 5:30 a.m., when I gave him pain meds. He took a shower. The home health nurse arrived at 11 a.m., visited, checked vitals, changed dressing for pigtail drain, drew blood, then left after 11:30 a.m. Her name is Cassie .... nothing like the Cassie I know.
I called Joan, the thoracic nurse coordinator at UIHC early this morning. She will return the call sometime today to advise us of his appointment time on Thursday when the pigtail drain is to be removed. Joan called around 4 and talked to Jim - I was in the middle of busy-busy Gazette work. Our appointment is at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Jim's left jaw has been hurting most of the day (and also hurts when he talks), although the pain is not so obvious with pain meds. He told his home health nurse, but she didn't think it was a big deal. I suggested he call the dentist ... needless to say, that suggestion went nowhere. Tonight he asked me to call the UIHC on-call thoracic fellow, who happened to be one of his doctors - Jason Chang, a nice young man. Jason didn't really have any ideas. He didn't know if it was in anyway connected with the surgery. He said he would pass on the info to Joan and have her call Jim in the morning to see how he was doing.
Then I proceded to flush and give him his meds and of course, the pain meds refused to go through the tube. And we couldn't find the bag with extra syringes and declogging supplies in it that came with all the stuff from UnityPoint Home Medical. So, I put out a SOS on Facebook and we prayed, asking for the Lord's intervention. He came to our rescue. We realized, again, we had stepped away, momentarily, from our focus on Him. We can't do it alone.
I called Joan, the thoracic nurse coordinator at UIHC early this morning. She will return the call sometime today to advise us of his appointment time on Thursday when the pigtail drain is to be removed. Joan called around 4 and talked to Jim - I was in the middle of busy-busy Gazette work. Our appointment is at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Jim's left jaw has been hurting most of the day (and also hurts when he talks), although the pain is not so obvious with pain meds. He told his home health nurse, but she didn't think it was a big deal. I suggested he call the dentist ... needless to say, that suggestion went nowhere. Tonight he asked me to call the UIHC on-call thoracic fellow, who happened to be one of his doctors - Jason Chang, a nice young man. Jason didn't really have any ideas. He didn't know if it was in anyway connected with the surgery. He said he would pass on the info to Joan and have her call Jim in the morning to see how he was doing.
Then I proceded to flush and give him his meds and of course, the pain meds refused to go through the tube. And we couldn't find the bag with extra syringes and declogging supplies in it that came with all the stuff from UnityPoint Home Medical. So, I put out a SOS on Facebook and we prayed, asking for the Lord's intervention. He came to our rescue. We realized, again, we had stepped away, momentarily, from our focus on Him. We can't do it alone.
