If it makes you feel any better, Michael, morphine didn't do too much for my pain either the first time around. It made me crazy, paranoid and out of my head, which would have been fine if it had killed any of the pain I was having. Good learning experience for the next time should you need to go into the hospital. These days if I have severe pain, I'm better informed to say "no morphine, please"

Sorry about the crap nurses and the doctor not keeping you informed or checking up on you. I've had my share of those too. It's probably why I'm a wee bit jaded on the whole medical thing. When you do find good nurses or a few good doctors on your medical team, that's what keeps you in the game. At the beginning of my cancer saga this year, I made sure to note in my book the nurses that I COULD communicate with. Sometimes they are easier to reach than the top dog anyway, and thankfully some of them even had business cards with their direct numbers listed on them.

Hope you are healing better with each passing day.

Jen