I knew a full good day was too good to be true...  Ron's stomach started to hurt this evening at about 7:00 or so, and got progressively worse.  By 8:30 he asked me to ask the nurse, Frank, for something like Maalox to help his stomach.  Before Frank could get a doctor's order for something, the pain was up to a level 7 (out of 1-10).  By 9:30 it was an 8, and Frank gave him some Fentanyl.  Then the pain moved to his back, and was going up and down his back.  At 9:45 the resident came to evaluate, consulted by phone with Dr. Tita, and ordered a chest x-ray to make sure that the chest tube had not moved, and that his lung had not collapsed again.  At 10:45 the pain was still very bad, 8-9 when they got here to do the chest x-ray.  By 11:30, both the resident and Dr. Tita checked the x-ray, compared it to the ones from this morning and yesterday, and it looked the same.  They ordered another dose of Fentanyl, and Ron is finally asleep... 11:45.  Still not sure what is causing the pain.  Stomach sounds fine - normal sounds.  Lungs sound bad, but like they have been sounding.  They will keep checking on him all night.  I'm going home...  G'night
 
Love,
EJ