5th chick dying in my hands right now - help!

[boskelli1571]

Just came home from the hospital where DH is now hospitalized with a neck mass which is necrotic lymph nodes which burst and strep infection. He now looks and sounds about like my sick chickens. Came home to a dead Breda chick.

My goodness! What a terrible week/month/year you're having! Thoughts and prayers are with you, dh. & the flock, Sue

 

[bellschick]

Could that syrep infection b mersa? I feel so bad for you. Plz take 3 deep breaths and say a prayer and I hate to say it but keep going! This too shall pass.

 

[familypendragon]

6 new dead total since I have been at the hospital apparently. I instructed my family to keep them in the fridge in baggies if they found them. And this morning I found my only remaining Egyptian Fayoumis rooster killed by my dogs since I've been at the hospital. And the only remaining female has the disease with her eye swollen shut now. I give up - they are just going to either live or die. I see at least 10 more chicks outside that are sick. DH can finally swallow and talk, but still running 103 fever throughout the day, neck the size of a softball, and in more pain than they can seem to treat with any combination of narcotics. He has to be my focus right now.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your losses and the pain your husband is in. FYI, I've been in the hospital many times and had most of the pain killers there and the ones that I remember working best were Demerol and Fentanyl, morphine was useless, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

If the regular Dr's can't get his pain under control you might want to see if they have a pain team and ask if they could come by and evaluate him.

-Kathy

 

[familypendragon]

Thank you for the suggestion, I will check on that. The Fentanyl was the only thing that worked, but once he left the ER the hospital he was taken to said that they are not allowed to use it on the floor :/ It is the only thing that helped.

 

[casportpony]

Thank you for the suggestion, I will check on that. The Fentanyl was the only thing that worked, but once he left the ER the hospital he was taken to said that they are not allowed to use it on the floor

It is the only thing that helped.

That's odd, I wonder why they said that? Heck, they sent me home with fentanyl, lots of it!

-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

Pain management is supposed to be a top priority in a hospital. I would speak to administration. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

 

[boskelli1571]

Thank you for the suggestion, I will check on that. The Fentanyl was the only thing that worked, but once he left the ER the hospital he was taken to said that they are not allowed to use it on the floor

It is the only thing that helped.

There is such a thing as a PCA (patient controlled analgesia) pump. All the staff has to do is load in a pump and voila!! I somehow strongly doubt 'they can't use it on the floor' - they don't want to! I f they are somehow not competent to use a PCA, that's very troubling.
Contact the nursing admin & medical admin. If you don't get satisfaction you can report them to the state health commission and JCAHO. Usually a threat of state and/or JCAHO does the trick. Since much of healthcare is now satisfaction driven, you should also be able to post something on the state hospital guide.
I'm sorry that your dh is suffering unnecessarily, we are supposed to be the 'caring profession'.

Sue

 

[bellschick]

That fentanyl has been known to stop the patients breathing so they r picky who they use it on. Im surprised they r using it at all.