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Show 292 I have remained in massive spasms for some time now and I am hot and sweaty and my heart is pounding as hard as my hands against the bed rails and she is coming back into the room as if nothing has happened. She is putting a small tray with paper cups holding my oral medications onto the table and picking up the telephone receiver. "How do you get her meds down her?" she is asking and I can only assume she is calling the step-down ICU, where the nurses know me. I have been moved to this dead wing ofthe hospital because they are remodeling and the accompanying hammering and jack hammering currently in the step-down ICU and the ICU are not friendly to my startle. This remote wing will be torn down sometime later. I can only imagine what the nurse on the other end ofthe telephone is telling her. She hangs up and once again leaves the room. She returns with a small food container and she is pulling back the lid as my hands are banging on the bed rails and I can hear a soft crushing. I am arching once again and there are black spots.before my eyes when I feel a spoon trying to pry apart my teeth to open my mouth. "You need to push Versed," I am gasping and my teeth are clenched from the spasms but she is taking this opportunity of my open lips to shove applesauce into the comers of my mouth. I can |
