morphine, six more injections in the head, gas and air and yet more hospital drama yesterday

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I went to the hospital again. My impression was they would look at the dressing. When the doctor tried to do this I SCREAMED. As soon as the infection was touched it hit 10 on the pain scale. I always wondered what 10 felt like. So they gave me morphine. Then the doc tried to inject the anasthetic. I saw the needle and syring and it was huge. Two injections were painful but on the third, I SCREAMED. This was off the richter scale of painful. So the doctor decided to give me gas and air only he said it had to be nitrous oxide and oxygen, The nurse brings and tries to give this from an empty cylendar. So they say there will be another up in five minutes. In about half an hour the doctor comes and says they sent pure oxygen so he had to send it back. The porters get it wrong again, By now I am asking the friend with me if this is in fact a dream. They try again and get it wrong. Several hours later we finally have the right cylendar but now the doctor says the anasthetic from the first three injections has worn off. So now I have to have the gas and air and three more injections before they can yet again drain what they say is an abscess behind my ear. Still high on gas and air they say I can go home. I am so glad I have a lift as really, getting the bus is the only thing I could have done otherwise and I do not think I would have made it. (2 buses in the dark and one only comes once an hour at night.) I have been sent home with codeine and it says take two pill not one like before. I have to return Monday and if all is not well, they will do a scan. The friend who came with me has a huge bandage on her thumb and has had an operation on it in the same ward. I have now had 12 injections in the head in the last week. Two times drained an abscess and am so full of anasthetics in and out of the vein I do not know which way is up. I keep hoping this is all a bad dream but I guess I should just be grateful I am in a country where treatment is free and was in one of the best hospitals in the country. They left the wound open to heal and I think the bandage is coming off. I am not up to much so mylotting is a good way to pass the time.