Cancer Upate: Pain Barely Manageable today. Meds let me sleep all day. Wooohoooo.

 Wow, I never, never, never... considered that a day when my pain was
manageable I'd experience as, 'Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!' Well, that's how it is
now.

My experience of the pain and the meds interaction is that it is extremely
variable, and I can't see any explanatory pattern.  Yesterday and this morning
were near unbearable, but from mid morning until now, well, I could sleep,
not being awakened by horrible shooting pain.

So far, the overall cycle has been one day bearable, next day bearable.
Will things stabilize?  Get worse? Get better?

Throat pain from multiple NG tubes SEEMS TO BE GONE!!!!!!

Stomach pain is the worst, back pain can be really bad.  Huh??? In the OR
as I awoke the pain I had, a 10, was, uh, BACK PAIN!!!!!  What????
I'm curious, but have never thought to ask, do they, for that 5 hour operation,
hyper extend or contract the back to get a better access to the liver???

All I know is that since day 1 - day 4 back pain tended to be WORSE
than my stomach.  Hmmmm.  This is no longer true, stomach is always the
worse, but back can get really bad, too.

 OH!  And there is this MAGIC pill they gave me in a script after I left the
hospital (?), THANK GOD, that I take before every meal!!!!  Barely anything
was going down without immense muscle pain all along my throat into the
stomach!?!?!?!?  IT WAS AWFUL, SOOOO UPSETTING, DEEPLY
DISTRESSING.  This new pill, within 5 minutes after taking it, reduces
that pain by 80-100%!!!!!  My whole system, all symptoms combined, still
have me eat like the slowest of snails (no disrespect my little tiny sis and bros).
On 1/3 of the dinner I'd pre-op normally take, I've just finished, it has been
45 minutes.  But, compared to where I've been these recent days,
WHO CARES!?!!?!??!  A God-send.

No complaints.  My existence is Heaven compared to folks in Syria, Palestine,
US Inner Cities, much of the middle east for females.........................
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