Why doctors shouldn't explain drugs at 10 p.m.

Christopher went to the doctor today and got his stitches out. Everything is healing up just fine, the doc said.

He will begin physical therapy next week. In the meantime, he can use his elbow and wrist but not shoulder. He can take off his sling sometimes (but needs to sleep in it). And we've discovered why he's been a little dazed and light headed lately.

What we thought were the Tylenol type, anti-inflammatory/pain meds were in fact generic Percocet!

When the docs gave me his prescriptions after the surgery I was exhausted and apparently got a little confused. I knew he got an antibiotic (the red pills), an anti-inflammatory (the white ones), and a pain med (the other white ones). I would need to present ID to prove I was an adult and actually related to the patient to get the pain med. Since one set of white ones ran out after only three days, I figured that was the killer opiates. NOPE!

Apparently, the doctor says he's been taking fewer than she expected -- she expected him to need a refill before now but he only took the last pill last night. She says that since he's been okay with that low level of meds, he can just revert to Ibuprofen from now on.

He's healing up nicely, and was lucky. Apparently it's unusual to get this surgery done arthroscopically.

That's all for now.