The only bit of that night that my brother does not remember is the ambulance ride. Isn’t that sad!
I know from experience that if you stick a five year old boy in or around any large shiny vehicle, they are going to have the time of their life, and being in an ambulance with sirens and paramedics and all the cool equipment would have been a great memory to have.
They had given him medication to numb the arm so that the Children’s Hospital could set it right away, and the morphine combined with the pain made him… groggy to say the least. My brother remembers the pain, he remembers that he was promised Tylenol and never got it (he didn’t know that morphine’s better). And he remembers not remembering the ambulance ride.
The one bit that would have been not only a really fun but also an exciting memory for him was lost to pain and Morphine.
People should not miss out on amazing experiences because of chemical induced memory loss…
Which brings me to the real point of this blog series…
I know from experience that if you stick a five year old boy in or around any large shiny vehicle, they are going to have the time of their life, and being in an ambulance with sirens and paramedics and all the cool equipment would have been a great memory to have.
They had given him medication to numb the arm so that the Children’s Hospital could set it right away, and the morphine combined with the pain made him… groggy to say the least. My brother remembers the pain, he remembers that he was promised Tylenol and never got it (he didn’t know that morphine’s better). And he remembers not remembering the ambulance ride.
The one bit that would have been not only a really fun but also an exciting memory for him was lost to pain and Morphine.
People should not miss out on amazing experiences because of chemical induced memory loss…
Which brings me to the real point of this blog series…
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