Brooke Beecham
Lets see...where was I......
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, 06-23-2008 at 04:19 PM (100508 Views)
I guess I ended at the nurse from Hallafax....I won't use the word I have especially saved for her. I believe all of this took place on September 16th and 17th. The next 17 days of my life I must say I do not really remember. There were so many drugs in my system I couldn't function. They had me on a demerol pump 25 mg every 15 minutes, which made me itch so there is benedryl IV 25mg every 6 hours, the combo made me really sick to my empty stomach alot so they gave me Phenergan IV 25 mg every 4-6 hours depending on how much I was dry heaving. It was a very very long 17 days. Most of the time I would lay unresponisve or I would get SO hungry I couldn't stand it but every bite of food I ate I regretted it, so I wouldn't eat! One particular day I didn't wake up ALL day I slept my kidneys weren't putting anything out because the only fluids I was getting was IV and my IV's were blowing left and right because of the lack of nutrition. Just remembering how hard it was on my parents brings tears to my eyes! They mean the world to me, I wouldn't have made it without them. Alright, back to the story. So, they weren't able to put the fluids to me like they needed to and the feeding tube milk was making me worse not better. The day I was talking about where I slept all day and nothing was being put out and nothing was going in, this was a Tuesday. On this tuesday a minister friend of my fathers came to the hospital bring a bunch of food for my parents, steaks from a very expensive steak house in Downtown Nashville TN, along witht he food he brought a very powerful man of God he prayed for me and told my parents that things would be better! So they held on to their faith yet again! The next day, Wednesday incase you weren't keeping up, lol, was a good day! I had been able to eat, I had been able to go to the game room which I hadn't been to in a few days, it was a good day! They decided not to put the tube back down because I had improved so much. Now I was so excited about that. There were dipping dots on the basment level of Vandy, my all time favorite ice cream! So, after much talking and begging I convinced mom to let me go down to the basement with her to get some dippin dots. So she and I went down to the basement got me strawberry cheesecake, my favorite, on the way back to 6 North we went. The elevator dinged, I got off and mom started pushing my IV pole off the elevator, well before she could get my pole off the elevator hump thing the doors shut and took a non stop flight to the 11th floor, the heli-pad! So, I am on the 6th floor with my dippin dots and she is on the 11th floor with my IV pole. By instinct I caught my IV before it came ripping out of my arm and I was fine, and I knew mom was fine. But you see she didn't know I was ok and they had been having such a horrible time with IVs she just KNEW it had destroyed my left arm. So she FREAKED! I was just standing there with my left arm suspended in the air and I had opened my dippin dots and was holding them in my left hand and eating them with my right, just patiently waiting for someone to walk by or the elevator to come back down. Finally a nurse walked by and said hello and said a very calm how are you. I replied o I am doing great just waiting on my IV pole to come back, she replies ok well have a nice day, got about 10 feet past me turns around and says O MY WORD, takes off sprinting to the nearest nurses station grabs some supplies and come un hooks me all while I just stand there eating my dippin dots. My mom and the IV pole finally returns and she sees me standing there and just melt into the floor in tears of relief! It is a very funny story now but it sure wasn't funny then! We were released that time a couple days later and I got to come home. For about 4 days!
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