Hi, and thanks all again. I really do appreciate the support, even if I don't have much energy to get here and say so.

She has been laying all day again today, she is still hurting a lot every 3 hours. I've been giving her morphine every 6 hours and Advil every 6 (3 hris into the morphine). I haven't filled the Tylenol 3 rx yet, because Tylenol doesn't normally work for her (at least it doesn't for a fever).

We have one morphine left, and I'm hoping she sleeps through the night so that I can keep it for the morning. I guess her dad will have to take her in if worst comes to worst.

I really don't know what is "supposed" to happen here, and if this is normal recovery. I had a LP, but it was botched and I spent a week incoherant in the Brain Trauma Unit. I had the headache, for sure, but I was so out of it, I don't remember much at all about it.

I also had epidurals with my kids, and I remember a bad head and back ache with the second one . . . but I have a very high tolerance to pain too ....

How long should I wait, I wonder? Also, how involved is the blood patch procedure? She's already asked if the blood patch means another shot in her back, and I'm pretty sure it does. Has anyone had one, and how bad is that procedure?

Thanks, Cherie