And the days passed… Oxycodone, two Tylenol, Lidocaine cream (which Lady SCAdian picked up at the drugstore – not as strong as the patches, but OTC) and CBD cream every six hours until Saturday 27/4, when I found that everything had worn off and I needed another dose after ony four and a half hours. Five hours until the next round, and when I woke up the next morning something new had been added: Burning pain down the front of my leg from hip to knee. Ended up going back to the ER that evening, where they started with six mg of morphine, took x-rays of my hip (which this time hurt more than the knee did), gave me another four mg of morphine, and sent me home.
Next morning Lady SCAdian rang the coumadin clinic and got permission for me to use Voltaren gel, an NSAID, usually not used alongside coumadin. Then off to ortho, where I got two cortisone shots – hip and knee. Felt fine the rest of the day (seems the shots also include an anaesthetic), but next morning all the pain was back. I’d been told the cortisone wouldn’t really begin to take effect for three or four days, and sure enough, when I went to the loo Thursday I was able to walk halfway there before the pain got so bad I wanted to scream. Friday afternoon ( I could stay on my feet long enough to take a shower (rather overdue by then 
), but the pain was back Saturday and I’m back to the occasional Tylenol and frequent applications of various ointments whilst staying in bed. 
Sorry about all the complaining. Hope y’all are having a better week than I am!