Scoliosis Surgery Recovery at Home

June 16 – Friday I’m 174.4 lbs

I was feeling pretty over-medicated at 3 MS-Contin 30mg per day and falling asleep sitting up, which was just wrong.  I was clearly over-medicated.  I’d figured with the post-surgical pain I might need more painkillers than usual, but neglected to factor in my very high tolerance for pain.

So instead of taking the 30 mg Morphine 3 times  a day, I brought it down to twice a day.  NOW I feel a lot more awake.  I can throw some Norco at the pain as needed and I’m feeling a lot better.  But this is the day things start to go downhill.  Normally I would have taken Morphine at 0600, 1400 and 2200 hrs.  I skip the 1400 hrs dose & take a nap from 1400 hrs to 1715 hrs.  I wake up Ffffreeeeezing, took a Norco to balance the lower Morphine dose & checked the house thermostat.  76 degrees, which is a couple of degrees colder than we usually keep it.  Check my temp.  99,2, which is 1.5 degrees high, so I take some Tylenol.

After dinner, it still seems cold & my temp is down to 98.4 – around 1 degree high.

Then at 2200 hrs I had a lovely little burst of the Liquid Shits.

Swell.

Off to bed.