The Let-It-All-Out: We're Here For You. No, Really.

[Krisan Thyme]

Oh ouch. Glad to see it turned out ok at least?

Actually, the doctor failed to treat me completely.. And in fact, he curiously left the country not too long after my continued treatments. I've heard through the grapevine that he did some questionable things with other patients too, but I don't know.. Ultimately I ended up needing to have major surgery, which.. well, sucked.

[Milady]

We could start talking about our junk, I suppose.

You never know, talking of horrible disfigurements and diseases might help me on my NCLEX exam. Nothing better than making anecdotal connections with all that textbook nonsense.

[Corey]

Actually, the doctor failed to treat me completely.. And in fact, he curiously left the country not too long after my continued treatments. I've heard through the grapevine that he did some questionable things with other patients too, but I don't know.. Ultimately I ended up needing to have major surgery, which.. well, sucked.

Oh crazy. Sorry to hear you had all that trouble.

[Kouen Hasuki]

Same thing (Kouen? ) had?
I may be mistaken, but it's very similar.
Specially the "Burst" part.

No, My Colon Burst in my case but indeed i had like 48 hours to live when i went into hospital

[Corey]

You never know, talking of horrible disfigurements and diseases might help me on my NCLEX exam. Nothing better than making anecdotal connections with all that textbook nonsense.

My medical opinion? Always use Morphine on patients in pain. Always.
I just wish I had another appendix to lose.

[Kouen Hasuki]

My medical opinion? Always use Morphine on patients in pain. Always.
I just wish I had another appendix to lose.

Morphine is awesome

[Milady]

My medical opinion? Always use Morphine on patients in pain. Always.
I just wish I had another appendix to lose.

I hear fentanyl is fun, too.

[Drageuth]

Mmmmn... morphine...

Haven't had morphine in years

[King]

No, My Colon Burst in my case but indeed i had like 48 hours to live when i went into hospital

Opps...

A bit of a memory failure for me then.

[Krisan Thyme]

Oh crazy. Sorry to hear you had all that trouble.

You know, as much of a hellish experience as that surgery was.. (And I could never emphasize how hellish it was, it was a serious operation and by all means horrific in every way.)
It doesn't bother me so much I had to go through that painful experience, as it does the numerous social issues it causes me now. If I never had that surgery, I would be so much better off than I am now. As it is it complicates relationships and scares a lot of people off.

[Corey]

I hear fentanyl is fun, too.

And what ailment would one need to receive that? Just hypothetical of course.

[Krisan Thyme]

No, My Colon Burst in my case but indeed i had like 48 hours to live when i went into hospital

This is actually more or less why I had the surgery I had, to avoid this from ever happening. My entire colon was removed though, it had to be because of the disease I had which had infected the entirety of it.

[Kouen Hasuki]

And what ailment would one need to receive that? Just hypothetical of course.

Indeed Corey is just bulking up on Random Trivia thats all

[Kouen Hasuki]

This is actually more or less why I had the surgery I had, to avoid this from ever happening. My entire colon was removed though, it had to be because of the disease I had which had infected the entirety of it.

I Lost half of mine

[Milady]

And what ailment would one need to receive that? Just hypothetical of course.

Severe pain. It's usually given IV, and ICU patients generally need to be weaned off of it when they come to the floor.

Fentanyl is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine, with 100 micrograms of fentanyl approximately equivalent to 10 mg of morphine and 75 mg of pethidine (meperidine) in analgesic activity.

I've only seen morphine as an ordered med once or twice. But that's probably because I worked in a hospital that took more acute cases, some of the "stable" floor patients would probably be in ICU rooms in other hospitals.