This is all getting very distressing.
He's been in major pain for a couple of days, after fixing a leak under the kitchen sink!
He (and I) also has Covid.
This morning he was very distressed with chest pain and telling me he couldn't breathe. I can't take him anywhere because of the covid so I called an ambulance. Whilst I suspected it was muscular we also gave the covid issue and he's a higher risk age group.
They were brilliant, arrived very quickly, checked his heart, lungs, blood pressure and decreed that it's a muscle strain and it's not that he "can't" breathe but that it hurts to breathe, take stronger pain killers.
So, he's since been taking 30mg codeine and paracetamol.
He's still sobbing in pain and panic stricken that he can't breathe.
The man is an ex soldier and not at all prone to over reaction, normally. He's usually, take an aspirin and press on, regardless of the injury.
I'm not concerned for his safety, as he was so thoroughly checked this morning, but can/should I "do" anything for him? Should I be asking "someone" for better pain relief? What he's taking is left over from an op he had earlier in the year and pretty strong, I think? The paramedic said they were good for him to take with paracetamol.
I don't know what to do.