Painful irony

You're in pain, you want meds to kill the pain. You are given lots of meds. Somewhere, you develop a reaction to the meds. Suddenly, paranoia sets in. There is no recovery until it is leeched from your system. Lois experienced this for several days.

Late this morning, sans loads of morphine, she was lucid and responsive to conversation. Later, she was finally asleep. Beth, Debbie, Jennifer all bade her goodbye.

Today, so far, was better.
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A call from Dorothy was that her pain had not subsided. Tears of pain--untamed. God be with them both!