Increasing pain meds...

On Sunday afternoon Robin had her pain meds adjusted upwards by 150%. This put her to sleep pretty quickly. Even though the nurse said Robin would adjust to the new level, we asked that the level be lowered since Robin has never been a fan of too much medication. The nurse was very helpful is decreasing the dose, and then slowly increasing the pain medication, but by Monday might it became apparent that Robin was going to need that original high dose. We were grateful that the nurse worked with us to ease both Robin (and us) to the higher med levels.

We did have one scary episode Monday night when Robin pressed the button for an "extra dose". The extra dose of pain medication made her a bit confused and thought she was back in the hospital. I just kept telling her that everything was OK and after a while she was able to relax.