An Overnight Scare

As posted earlier, they changed Angelique’s main pain medication from morphine to methadone on Wednesday. She slept most of the day yesterday. They told us that it would take several days for the methadone to work its way into her system.

She awoke in the middle of the night last night with pains in her chest and shortness of breath. We both thought at first that she was having a heart attack. I immediately called Hospice and learned “on-the-fly” how to get her oxygen machine hooked up. I gave her a shot of her liquid morphine (usually for breakthrough pain, but good for anxiety too). After a few terrifying minutes, she settled down. After about 15 minutes, she was back asleep and slept through the rest of the night ok. The medics really don’t know what happened. I believe now that she was having a bad anxiety attack. Her Hospice nurse says she thinks so too.

She then slept most of the day again today. She did wake long enough to eat a little and take a bath. It’s about 5:30 pm now and she’s sleeping again. We’ll get her up again in a couple of hours for more numbing gel, then again at 11:00 for her overnight meds. We’ll just wait and see how the night goes.

Thanks for caring. Stay tuned…