My fiance was in a car accident nov. 5th,
resulting in a torn aorta, shattered
pelvis, broken hip, broken arm.. He was
in a coma for a month, had open heart
surgery, screws and plates put in both his
pelvis and arm,his lungs failed a few
times, his kidneys failed he developed
large bed sores that became infected (i
believe it was staff), his stomach was cut
open to relieve the pressure in his lungs,
and he has extensive nerve damage in his
leg and foot. *phew*
he is home now, doing physical therapy and
what not..
My question is: they have him on so many
medications, methadone, oxycodone, nerve
blockers, antidepresants, blood
pressure...The list goes on and on.
Should I be worried that they are over
medicating him? Or maybe mixing deadly
cocktails? I know anna nicole smiths son
died of a mixture of antidepressants and
methadone, and marcus is on a whole lot
more then that. Should I request we get
someone to pay close attention to his pain
management. Do they have doctors for this
specific thing?
Thanks for readin.
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hopefulmjz
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Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 4777 Location: , USA
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Posted: 02-10-07 22:48pm
i'm very sorry that happened, and I hope
everything goes well...But this is a
pregnancy forum. You may find someone
here that can answer that, but if you
scroll all the way down you will see there
are other parts of the forum that may help
you more than we can. Good luck!
*edited to add*
here is a link to the addiction and
recovery part of the forum, you may get
more answers there. (i realize he's not
addicted to meds, but more than likely
someone recovering may know quite a bit!)
you will have to make all the upper case
letters to lower case in your
browser.....
Http://ehealthforu
m.Com/health/addiction.Html
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samrella
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Taunton,Massachusetts,
This is under Additiction Posted: 11-16-08 18:36pm
