Much -ma for Burrell's sister.

Also for Jesse - sorry to hear about your grandmother (I have been behind in this thread all week).

I'm sorry, Burrell. Fuck cancer. There is more ammunition available to keep even advanced disease at bay, sometimes for years. (Of course, I am personally invested in that theory.)

Dilaudid is supposed to be scary number times morphine?

Huh. I had IV Dilaudid once for a gall bladder attack, and the nurse told my husband he might as well leave to go get some lunch because I would be knocked out in a minute. He left (which was fine: go eat!) and I don't know what dosage they gave me, but the pain stopped and I just felt...cozy. I watched some Cake show on TV, never even got sleepy and I was hooked up for an hour.

The morphine drips I had after...three operations? made me stoned as hell and I was in and out, or asleep. Made me itch, though.

Oh, Burrell, I'm so sorry.

Many of the "new" doctors and nurses I get have never administered more than 2mg of dilaudid. Get someone who works with bones and joints (not osteopathic, but I'm blanking on the right word)and they'll push six with their eyes closed and go for a cig break.

I am, as they say, not opiate naive. Morphine will make me see double if I take enough orally (that might have been more than the prescribed dose...), but that's the only impact I've had from it. No pain relief, no sleepiness, no depressed breathing. Just an inability to read up close.

But sometimes it takes 12mg of dilaudid to make the pain stop, so there is that.

This [link] makes me break out in aromantic hives.

I'm gonna go change me oil.

This [link] makes me break out in aromantic hives.

I thought it was a link to a drug, since Strix said morphine made her itch.

But the actual link...I am just going O_o. (Asking your date if she took any hot men home with her is "flirting"? Really? SO HAPPY TO BE OFF THE DATING MARKET. [Note to the universe: please don't kill Tim before he gets home. Or after. Kthxbai.])

I can't remember if it's oral or IV Demerol that gives Hubby screaming hallucinations. Dear goddess, that was a bad night.

Oh, Burrell, I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine.

Oh Burrell, I am so sorry.

I haven't had dilaudid since having a c-section and I was so fucked up in every other way that I can't make sense of my experience with it. But I do remember the epidural.

Twins are at Disney. On the teacups. In the picture after that, Noah and Grace are standing at a food place. I see a stroller thing in front. I hope they went to guest services and got it (and front of the line passes!)

msbelle, of the dress options, I like the one with the peter pan collar the best.

Cute twins!

That couple is exhausting.