Tuesday night my mother of 82 yrs old started feeling funny as she says and wanted to sit down on her bed, all day she was fine cooking french fries and fish, she had her crackers and tea earlier in the morning woth her metropol and wqs paying her bills and talking on the hone and laughing, she asked me to come down which i did and found her on her bed, as i mentioned, she wayted to lay down she got the chills and was hot all at one time and her body ached. i said we are going to er, she said no it will pass, after a bit she sat up and said call ambulance, we went to er and she had 104 fever, they took exrays and they gave her tylenol for fever, after a bit they took blood and urine, xray came back with spot on her left lung. she was still cold and hot and on the er stretcher very uncomfortable, her body ached very much we thought becasue of how she wqs positioned, her legs were stiff, she had a knee replacement 2 yrs ago and still recuperating from it not able to walk without walker or help. but this time she kept yelling out how her legs were in so much pain we aregued with er interns and drs about treating her for her pain, they just said they had to wqit but they would give her antibiotics since she had a bacterial infection. she was then sent to to a room after 8 hrs waiting. she finally got into a comfortable bed and the nurse mentoned i told those people in er not to send her up unless they gave her potassium which they did not. at this time she was sound asleep and one family memeber stayed with her till morning and andother relieved him and when i came back that day she was in bad pain from laying on her back which she normally doesnt do becasue of her bulging disk, she was still able to move and sit up and eat and go to bathroom the pain was getting worse after 3 days of tylenol with codeine wasnt helping they switched to morphine 2mg, now she only sleeps and talks jibberish. and eats very little she went from 104 fever with pneumonia to back ache to not moving and given morphne and sleeping all day and her prewsure has drop mny times to 76/56 she had severe diarehea, then now throwing up. we have many times want4d to take her out that hosp. but against drs advice and now they say they are focusing on her pneumonia which is now getting better we were told and not concentrqting on her pain from her back and all over but just giving her now 4 mg morphine shotd. every 4 to 6 hrs if needed. so when she starts screaming about the pain they give her the shots. please i neeed help in what to do, what can i do to get her off this morphone and ask them to give her something else that ewould not put her to sleep or to help her with this pain, its been 5 days now. tomorow im going up to hosp. to speak with the drs. and to see what is being planned for her, or i will have to make a very importqnt decision. i was told today that they might have to send her to rehab to help her walk again they took an mri on fridqy and i havent gotten any resuslts yet. but yet they want her to go to rehab not knowing the results, cant they if eeded give her shot in her bqck to releive the pain? im lost and confused. ive heard so many stories on elderllys who were given morphine, one for my aunt who wqws given morphine to shut her up because she was in pain for a few dsys and then she died.my mother when she had knee surgery 2 yrs ago was given morphine for the pain and then weaned off and put on another pain killer. then she went to physcial therapy. which as i mentioned becfore is still recuperating from the knee replacement. please i need help.