update

Well, last night Katie had a rough night! That morphine idea was not the best idea in the world. He had to up her dose and it finally gave her about 30 min around 4am. The doc came in about 8 and did another procedure. He "deadened" behind her ear and then inserted a needle to try and remove the pus that the CT scan showed. He got very little out, so he wants to try something else. He has called radiology to see if they can do the same thing but guided with ultrasound. If they can't or it doesn't work, he has tentatively booked the OR for around noon so that he can clean it out and I think he would probably put in a temporary drain of some kind. If he does what I think he will do, I have see this with several of my patients and it relieved their pain quite quickly except for the incision part. I'm sure that pain is easier to handle than what she is going through now. She has had no real relief for four days now.
The nurse just came in and told her that the doc did give her a new pain med to try and she is on the OR schedule for noon. She said she will probably still go down to radiology first but the doc doesn't think it will work.
Gotta go. Will update when I hear more.