A couple days ago Jonny woke up with a stiff neck, and it has only been getting worse. Yesterday the pain was so bad that it was making him nauseous and he almost blacked out a few times. His whole head/neck/back froze up and he can't move :( Last night it got even worse. He couldn't sleep and when I woke up at 1 am he said he wanted to go to the hospital.
So off to the ER we went! I knew the poor guy had to be in a lot of pain, because he never complains when he's sick or hurt, but he still felt kinda silly going to the hospital.
This is his sad attempt at a smile...
He had to get a shot in his bum :) He kept saying "you better not get a picture of THAT!" But once the morphine kicked in he said many times "I really wish you would have gotten a picture. You could have put it on the blog..." Yeah, I don't think so...
So, they gave him morphine with Zofran. The Zofran was to relieve the nausea that morphine causes. Well, the morphine had no effect on his pain, and even after 2 more doses of Zofran, he threw up a ton.
The upside of all of this is that I got to witness Jonny on drugs. It was amusing. Here are some of the things he said...
He told me that when he went to the hospital when he was little, they gave him apple juice. So I asked the nurse if they had any and she said she would get him some. He looked at me and goes (in a very slurred, yet offended, voice) "I TOLD you they have apple juice!"
No one was doubting you, Jonny...
He loved the zofran dissolve-in-your-mouth pills they gave him. He raved about how good they were, and asked the nurse what flavor they were (she said she didn't know they were flavored). He kept saying, in a strangely formal tone, "These really are quite delicious" When he got his 2nd pill he popped it in his mouth and yelled "Yeah! Dat's what I'm talkin bout!"
He said "Do you remember when we were dating and we would stay up late and I would get really weird cause I was so tired? This is just like that... but this time I'm on morphine.... AND apple juice..."
He asked if he could drive home. When I said no, he said "fine, but I really don't want to run home."
Don't worry, I didn't make him run home :)
Maybe what he said wasn't that funny, and you just had to be there. Or maybe it was the fact that we didn't get home from the hospital til 5 am and were both super tired. But I thought it was hilarious :)
Well, they took an x-ray and they think it is just a sever muscle spasm. So he's on muscle relaxers, but refuses to take the percocet because he doesn't want to throw up again. It's just weird that this is so painful. We've both had muscle spasms before, and they were nothing like this!
When Jonny woke up this morning he was in even worse pain than he was last night, and he was really nauseous again. I called some guys in our ward to give him a blessing, which they did. One of them even left work to do it! While he's still in pain, he's much better than he was this morning. I am so grateful for that :)
So, they gave him morphine with Zofran. The Zofran was to relieve the nausea that morphine causes. Well, the morphine had no effect on his pain, and even after 2 more doses of Zofran, he threw up a ton.
The upside of all of this is that I got to witness Jonny on drugs. It was amusing. Here are some of the things he said...
He told me that when he went to the hospital when he was little, they gave him apple juice. So I asked the nurse if they had any and she said she would get him some. He looked at me and goes (in a very slurred, yet offended, voice) "I TOLD you they have apple juice!"
No one was doubting you, Jonny...
He loved the zofran dissolve-in-your-mouth pills they gave him. He raved about how good they were, and asked the nurse what flavor they were (she said she didn't know they were flavored). He kept saying, in a strangely formal tone, "These really are quite delicious" When he got his 2nd pill he popped it in his mouth and yelled "Yeah! Dat's what I'm talkin bout!"
He said "Do you remember when we were dating and we would stay up late and I would get really weird cause I was so tired? This is just like that... but this time I'm on morphine.... AND apple juice..."
He asked if he could drive home. When I said no, he said "fine, but I really don't want to run home."
Don't worry, I didn't make him run home :)
Maybe what he said wasn't that funny, and you just had to be there. Or maybe it was the fact that we didn't get home from the hospital til 5 am and were both super tired. But I thought it was hilarious :)Well, they took an x-ray and they think it is just a sever muscle spasm. So he's on muscle relaxers, but refuses to take the percocet because he doesn't want to throw up again. It's just weird that this is so painful. We've both had muscle spasms before, and they were nothing like this!
When Jonny woke up this morning he was in even worse pain than he was last night, and he was really nauseous again. I called some guys in our ward to give him a blessing, which they did. One of them even left work to do it! While he's still in pain, he's much better than he was this morning. I am so grateful for that :)
1 comment:
Oh no! I hope he gets feeling better! I know from experience that muscle spasms can be awful - in high school I did sports medicine and was standing on the sideline of a football game and got plowed down by I think 3 football players. The muscle spasms were so bad that they pulled my spine straight in my neck where it's supposed to be curved. SUPER painful! :( I hope he gets better soon!
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