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Page 1876 1 A Well, I was concerned about the swelling of 2 his legs, and I asked to have a cardiology 3 consultation. 4 That was Dr. Bernard Rubin who is a 5 cardiologist, and Dr. Rubin felt what we were seeing 6 was problems with right heart failure. 7 In addition, Dr. -- and he did not feel that 8 there was very much that we could do for that because 9 he felt that the heart failure was a consequence of 10 his lung disease. 11 In addition, he was given injections of 12 morphine for the first four days in the hospital. 13 Once his pain was controlled, he was once 14 more switched back to the oral form of morphine. He 15 was also given some medication called Lactulose which 16 is a very strong laxative, and he was given a stool 17 softener. 18 And at this point we made a decision that we 19 were not going to intervene, and we were going to try 20 to keep him as comfortable as possible. 21 Q Do you recall how many injections of