Well apparently Morphine can make you nauseous. I was fine for the first day, eating, pressing the magic button for more Morphine then all of a sudden (WHAM) the nausea hits! And let me tell you how excrutiating it is to vomit after major abdominal surgery! Worse than childbirth my friends.
I couldn't even look at breakfast and have stopped pressing the pump button for fear of more nausea. Unfortunately the Gravol IV they gave me didn't help one bit either. they left he Morphine IV running the whole time even though that was the likely cause of the nausea.
Dr. R stopped by in the afternoon. I was out of bed and sitting in a chair. She was pleased to see how well I was doing and that I could get out of bed. When she helped me to the bed to look at the wounds, I vomited again. I told her I thought the Morphine might be the cause, so she switched me to Percocet and oral Gravol.
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