Day Plus 10,11,12-No Appetite For Pain

With all the sores in my mouth and throat, eating and drinking has become very painful. Ensure shakes, cream of wheat, and beef broth have been my go to meals. Management of my throat and mouth pains was the priority over the weekend. I was given increased doses of Dilaudid at first to control the pain so I could go to sleep. 1mg Dilaudid worked well to knock me out for a few hours but not decrease the pain. They eventually gave me a PCA (patient controlled analgesia) to deliver a set Fentanyl dose to control the pain. The machine had a trigger button that I could use in 15 minute increments to deliver the drug into my IV. I made funny YouTube video below based on it. It was pre-set to 12.5 micrograms at first, which didn't seem to work for me, so they doubled it to 25, which also didn't work for me. At that point I gave up on it. The other issue I had was the secretions constantly building up in mouth from the mucositis. I was constantly spitting clear secretions into the sink and into cups so they set me up with one of those suction wands like you would see at the dentist. That helped a lot with clearing my mouth.

My parents and uncle from Nebraska came to visit one of the days. Most of the days, if I'm not sleeping, I've been keeping busy watching Netflix and Firestick, playing PS3, and playing Transformers and Words with Friends against Becky on my phone. I even played a quick game of UFC on PS3 against one of my nurse assistants, Gustavo. Velasquez vs Lesnar. I lost as Lesnar. Maybe I let him win.