Hi, all,
Thank You …
Thank you to those of you who've commented since I last wrote. For the last week or two Terrie's not been able to sit at the computer, so she won't be responding to your comments. If you print your comments I'll see to it that she gets them.
And many, many thanks to those of you who have been donating your PTO to Terrie! Her disability won't kick in until the end of April or the end of May (She wasn't clear on that matter.), so your generosity is so very much appreciated.
How Terrie's Doing Now
She's unable to walk without help now. She has to lean on something, and can no longer walk up the stairs to her bedroom. Yesterday the hospital bed arrived, so she now sleeps downstairs in the living room, on her hospital bed. Grandma says Terrie cannot hold anything in her hands, including the phone.
Terrie's on several analgesics: sodium naproxen, Vicodin, morphine in pill form, and liquid morphine (when the morphine pill isn't enough). Since the morphine causes her to itch, she takes Benadryl with the morphine, to stop the itching. The sores in her mouth are gone now, but I'm not so sure she's eating much.
Everything hurts now: shoulders, arms, legs. Yesterday I could touch her lightly, if I was careful not to touch the most painful places. There are no comfortable positions for her, so she resettles herself every couple of minutes. And she wrestles with her fears; her morale rises with the dulling of the pain, and plummets as the pain increases.
What this tells us is that the cancer in her bones is reaching a point where she'll be in great pain. Her oncologist told us that cancer in the bone is very painful, but is not life-threatening. It's the cancer in the liver that will be life-threatening.
That's all for now. God bless you all!
Under His mercy,
Marty
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