[Zeke]

^^^Good lord. that incision looks like it was done with a drywall saw and run over by a motorcycle.

@Higgins, thanks for the paragraphs on your experience. My plan is to pick up a couple quarts of decent tequila to have on hand. We can manage to rat hole a few pain meds for when we need them, but as everyone knows they take a bit of time. Most surgeons suggest staying ahead of the pain starting you off with 2 pills for the first dose, one each at 4-6 hours thereafter. Don't wait for the pain to come back and have to fight it. Keep it suppressed until you don't have to.

Liquor is pretty quick. Screw them if they can't handle an intoxicated patient. I don't want to see this suffering again. I will smuggle the booze if I have to. Throw me out, I don't give a rat's ass.

Yes, that same weekend thing happened to us, left the ER at 10 PM after 10 hours with a scrip called in to CVS. I asked about the hospital pharmacy and they said the same thing, closed until Monday morning. I know better, closed to the public. There is access, there has to be. I mean they are running an ICU 24/7 and need slhit all the time. They can't always know at 5PM what the night will bring.

I have learned, as has the medical profession, that big doses of acetaminophen and ibuprofen do very well. By molecular weight a Norco is 5 mg opioid and 375 mg acetaminophen. Oxy's are similar unless you go big with 10 mg.

Toradol is available in injectable solution intended for IV or IM introduction and does work. I saw that in person. They can give that stuff freely as needed. We can't get any that I know of other than slow acting tablets.
"Ketorolac Items designated as Rx can only be sold to licensed facilities or agencies".