Friday, March 25. 2011

Yesterday the doctor put John on Percocet. This morning, because it seemed to stop the symptoms he was having, the doctor increased the dosage to 2 tablets every 5 hours and John had quite a good day. I was so relieved to think that we had found a solution. I asked the doctor why this was helping and he said it was blocking the signals to the atatomic nervous system that was triggering all these symptoms.
He seemed quite good so I took the opportunity to take the evening off and go out to dinner with our church group. We had a great steak dinner at a nearby restaurant.
I just got home and there was a message on the phone to call the hospital.
The nurse told me that John was in bad shape, that they had given him more Percocet and all his sleeping meds but so far he was quite agitated and even even aggresive when they tried to tube feed him. They have had the doctor on call in to see him but he has only ordered Ativan for him if he does not settle down.
If this continues they will call me to come back up to the hospital .tonight
Usually the bedtime meds knock him out and I hope that is what will happen tonight.
Fortunately, our doctor is on call this weekend so he will be in to see John tomorrow morning and we can see what to do next.
I am so disappointed as I thought we had found an easy solution!!

I thought I would be giving a one thumbs up but now it is a one thumbs down.