Jason's Dream
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Jason has bad trapped gas. I am getting so frustrated with one of the nurses on call, "Diane". This all started at 4 am. At 6 am I was calling her, but it was like pulling teeth for her to get here. He was moaning and groaning in soo much pain. He was saying his belly hurt. She kept on saying "Well, I'll hafta put some clothes on, then I don't know what would be open this early.. blah blah blah". UGH! Anyways, she finally gets here. Gives him 30 CC's of Mylanta, pushes on his belly, and says she think it is trapped gas, kept on admonishing me for doing something a pharmacist said was okay to do, etc. She leaves saying she would tell "Angie" (his regular nurse) what is going on, and that Angie would be out in a couple of hours. Meanwhile, he is in excrutiating pain. Angie gets here, and so does Vickie (his nurse aid). They turn him back and forth several times to get him to aleviate the gas but no go. They check for impaction, there was none. They gave him 2 enemas, and still that doesn't alleviate the trapped gas. They have given him 7-up, mylanta, and finegran (nausea medicine). Currently they have me giving him the finegran every 4 hours and roxanol (subcutaneous morphene) every hour. At one point Jason said his stomach was hungry, and asked for a boost to be put down his tube. So I put a boost, and not even a few minutes later, and he vommited it all up. I called his nurse, Angie said she was still over 30 minutes away, but this Diane was 15 minutes away and said she would call her. Diane FINALLY called back and did absolutely NOTHING! Here Angie had said that they have done everything they can at home, if it doesn't get better, the next step is taking him to the hospital. Diane never came over (even after he had puked) and never talked about taking him to the hospital. I had to ask, so, what should I do.. food? what kind food? etc.... I am soo frustrated and don't know what to do. Jason is out of it, for most of the hour, until it is about time for another dose of morphene, then he is a clock watcher, pees, then is out of it again. I dunno if I should take him to the hospital, or if I should switch hospice agencies. If this is a sign of the type of care he is going to get (re: Diane), I am serious considering checking out other hospice agencies. Sorry for the long vent. Just really worried about Jason, hurting to see him in soo much distress, and sooo frustrated and a bit infuriated about the lack of care from the on-call nurse.