Pain right after surgery
Deciding to start chemo
Familiar things worked
Early treatments stopped working
Pills and patches
She was not groggy
Considered a nerve block
A tape of sad love songs
After the surgery she had surgical pain. That was a very, very intense pain. That may have been so intense it really went every where in her body. She didn't say it was here or there. It was every where, you could touch her on her left side even though she had the right lung taken out. Everything hurt. She was pretty disoriented. She had to be so heavily medicated it was hard to tell what was pain and what was confusion and what was just sadness from a feeling of hopelessness or fear or her lack of control. At the same time she had chest wall pain. She also had the herpes pain at the same time. It was difficult for her to say where the pain was coming from, what is it. I think at that point she just hurt all over.
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