Day 14

Megan had a rough morning. The night crew fell behind giving her pain and nausea meds and she felt pretty bad. Her gastric tube keeps slipping apart. The nurse worked to get her caught up on meds and we took a walk. Dr. Dunn came by and said that she had ordered a CAT scan to move the drain and also to check for an encapsulated abcess. If they find one they will attempt to drain it then and there.

Meg has been wearing a fentanyl patch. Today we noticed some sort of reaction to it. The hospital pharmacy called the CVS inTucson to determine the brand of the patch she had been wearing successfully before. So now she has a new patch.

Dr. Dunn also ordered a new med to make her stomach contents less thick and a little more slippery. Hopefully the tube will drain more easily. Once she is pretty much nausea free then she can cap that tube. That's when she could begin to try to eat some clear liquids. At this point, that seems a way off. There is a possibility that Meg will be released to the hospital on Sunday orMonday. Again it's just a wait and see game.

Meg just returned from the CAT scan and the drain did not need to be moved and they did not find another abcess. Dr. Dunn was kind of hoping they'd find more and that removing it would relieve her nausea. But, they did not remove the drain because the abcess is still actively making fluid. Again, wait and see.

Meg feels better this afternoon. If we could just conquer the mornings.... Prayers for continued healing and an end to the nausea.

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