The Duffys get more and more intense as the visit here goes on, so the first one was the easiest.
The setting is a small room where the patient sits at a counter with a mirror on the wall facing. Set into the counter is a large stainless steel bowl.
Several minutes after taking the Emetine and being administered the other medication I chugged two beers (warm btw) that were poured into four cups. Then the nurse had be depress my tongue to get the upward flow started, so I vomited into the bowl.
Then I moved into my room where a plastic bucket was waiting beside the bed. I laid down and the nurse placed an empty beer bottle on the table next to me so I could look at and think about it. She also placed a beer-soaked rag next to me so I could get the beer smell as I lay there too.
After about 10 minutes or so the rest of the beer came up into the bucket. Then maybe 10 minutes later I hurled up whatever else could have possibly been in my stomach and finished with several dry heaves. I had one trip to the toilet for diarrhea but otherwise my job was to lie there and make all the negative associations I could with the beer bottle, the smell of beer, the smell of vomit, etc.
So my first Duffy is down, only four more to go.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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