Day 6 in a world of pain

Today the epidural came out. This was one of the big sources of pain relief for Rhys.
After the epidural had been removed Rhys was due some paracetamol and Tramadol painkillers but before this could happen the physiotherapist came in to get him to move about.
They tried to get Rhys to sit in the chair but while he was moving around the bed and reached a sitting position on the bed he became dizzy and so had to lie back down.
At this point Rhys started to be in pain but the nurses brought in the painkillers which helped somewhat. Enough to allow him to watch the movie Jack the Giantslayer on DVD.
Rhys says that there wasn't much killing of giants so its an OK film but not brilliant.


Rhys' summary of the film (Spoiler Alert - skip if you've not seen the film)
Jack's Dad tells a story of giants and beanstalks to Jack. The Queen is also telling the same story to her daughter. There's a crown that gives whoever wears it the power to control the giants.
Jack and the princess grow up and Jack gets given some magic beans on a market day. The same story is being told by some other guy to different people.
Jack goes home and his uncle who is looking after him throws the beans around the house. One of the beans gets wet and grows into a beanstalk which lifts the house up into the air and takes them to the land of the giants.
Then... well you'll have to watch the film to find out any more.
End of Spoiler Alert

Rhys finished watching the film before he started to be in real pain. Eventually one of the anesthetists came in discuss pain relief with him and it was agreed that he would be put on a morphine PCA. He had one of these when he was having his transplant. Back then there was a low level dose of morphine constantly going through his system and he had the ability to give himself a turbo boost every 5 minutes. This time the low level dose isn't going through, he just has the turbo boost.
Hopefully with the morphine he'll be able to do things soon if we can keep the pain under control.

Tonight's TPN meal is chicken tikka masala, naan bread, poppadoms, prawn crackers and sheesh kebabs.