Jon's Mom here.
We had a bit of a set back today. During rounds this morning , the doctor told Jon they needed to switch his pain medicine to morphine. Seems they have a shortage of the small canisters of the one he has been on – that is what they use on the push button for extra pain coverage. Jon has had morphine before but evidently it can be a tricky medicine. It seems that this time Jon had an allergic reaction to it. Shortly after they made the switch, he got sick and threw up. He had pain in his lower back and abdomen and was pretty shaky . They took the morphine away and gave him benedrryl for the reaction. They put him back on his other pain med and the benedryl has kept him sleeping most of the afternoon. He told the last nurse that came in to check on him that he is beginning to feel like he did before this morphine thing started. So hopefully we are back on track.
A little side story: I left here about 8:45 last night. I had just gotten the car out of the parking ramp and there were suddenly fire trucks and emergency vehicles coming from every direction. I couldn't see or smell a fire anywhere so didn't think too much of it. It’s a big city. This morning I was in the family lounge room to get some water and one of the nurses came in. She said someone had put something in the microwave last night and walked away -- the container had metal on it and "pow" ...smoke, sparks, flames.. That was where all the firefighting equipment was going... just two doors away from JON!!
It didn't do much real damage that I could see…... microwave was gone today. The nurse said it was quite smokey last night but I couldn't smell any smoke or anything, although the room is sealed off this afternoon and I can hear some pounding and repair work going on. Jon said the ventalation system went off in his room but he didn’t get any of the smoke because it is a sealed room that doesn't allow outside air in. Impressive response though!
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