Remaining are:
50mcg fentanyl (patch) every 72 hours
4mg tabs of hydromorphone (dilaudid) in green box w yellow label, prn. I've been getting by w 1/2 a tab now & then.
eye steroid used off-label for ear infection and in the difficult-to-open, square packages, ondansetron, for nausea (in white bowl),
also in white bowl: 5% triamcinoline cream for skin eruptions
and a languishing pepto-bismol left over from the last bout of free-floating nausea.
Decades ago t.p. replaced kleenex.
Each water bottle was good for one swig. Now that I'm down to one, or maybe two, they're awaiting attrition.
The rock, a gift from poet-nurse Jesicca, traveled from Navajo Lake where she likes to camp. It's, according to Chat, a basalt with vesicle infillings of calcite, zeolites, chalcedony or clay minerals (the light spots).
Then there's the remote for the space heater.
Leaping to the pile in the upper left...
on top is an interlibrary loan (I.L.L.) Aroused By Books by Anatole Broyard followed by Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom (disappointing), Cholla Needles, a folder containing the history of Cumberland House Re-ed program and New Mexico Poetry anthology 2023.
OMG!! I forgot...I get 50mcg of fentanyl every 72 hours. (Thank you to JudithK for triggering yea olde memory.)
ReplyDeleteThat's it? That's all you got?
Oh, wait!!! I forgot!!! I get 50 mcg of fentanyl (patch) every 72 hours.
DeleteIt aleays feels good when you can whittle your crap down to one small table's worth!
ReplyDeleteYour reading list makes my head hurt! Mine is more along the lines of "Old Men Playing with Trains and the Children They Embarrass", "How to Hike 'till You're Too Old to Know You're Lost", and "The Definitive Compendium of Expensive Art Supplies That Will Never Improve Your Works"