Doing better now

Ok, it's Jalee again. Yeah, I was pretty ticked off yesterday in the ICU. It's like they didn't care whether or not they were hurting me or not. The first nurse I got, Joe (and yes he was eye-candy:-) was really pretty good. Since I have so many problems w/ my back and neck, I was more afraid of the pain from that than I was of the pain from my chest. Sure enough, when they took out the breathing tube, I was in excruiating pain in my neck. I felt like a 3 day old baby again. I couldn't control even one muscle in my neck. The knots in the right side of my back and neck were back w/ a vengence and they duplicated themselves on the left side as well. Joe got me some ice packs and put behind my back and neck and worked on my knots for probably a half an hour. He knew I had been receiving trigger point injections back home and knew how to massage them to get them to release. He was the best.

I think I threw up in the ICU at least once. Joe's shift was over and in came Herman who acted like it was more of a bother to take care of his patients. I will say one thing for him though. He was a good ice chip feeder:-) Of course every time I had to throw up, I couldn't control my neck muscles and that made it even more difficult.

I kept asking them to call Bryan and they said they would, but they didn't. I really needed him there. He would have known how to take care of me and it would have freed them up to take care of someone else. That night, was the most unpleasant night. Wednesday morning rolled around and they started torturing me again. I don't really remember what exactly it was that they were doing, but they didn't want to do anything at a slow pace or at my pace, they had their own agenda and no one was going to get them off that course.