K Miserable

Well, things sure didn't go well for K at the ER. The paramedics gave her IV dextrose to bring her blood glucose up. When it came up, they expected her to become lucid. When she didn't (she hadn't slept in 3 days due to her sleep disorder issue), they decided she had a narcotics overdose, and gave her Narcan. This narcotic antagonist binds to the same receptors that her pain meds (and even her natural anti-pain endorphins) do, and prevents them from working. This is good, when someone is dying from an overdose. In her case, it exposed her to all the pain she could ever feel from the neuropathy, that she's been fighting for the past 15 years. She went into a terrible state of being in torturous level 10 pain for four hours, before the ER doc finally started getting it under control. They checked her into a room, so they could monitor her, and she finally fell asleep probably around 2:30am. By that time, my foot was in pretty intense pain too, as it had been down all day, especially as I was hurrying around the hospital ER, trying to advocate for her. Ken took me home, and I got to sleep around 3am. Oh, what a night...