When we saw Kyle for the first time after surgery he looked better than I expected, however, he looked miserable. He had his halo screwed into his head and the traction part was attached to a pully system with weights hanging from it. It had 2 lbs. of weight attached. He was lying on his back with his pillow in an ackward position. He had many leads and IVs attached to him. He could barely speak but when he did he mentioned how thirsty he was and how he was in a lot of pain.
He was given pain meds once evey hour but he wanted it much sooner than that. He was not allowed any water or ice chips because of the fear of aspirating. We were only allowed to swab his mouth out with a wet q-tip-like sponge.
Because Kyle was in so much pain he was asleep shortly after he received his meds but woke as soon as the pain got intense which was every 45 minutes.
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