Daddy's doctors are still working on the right combinations and strengths to try and control his pain. Yesterday they started him on Lyrica, reduced his morphine and kept they kept his fentanyl path dosage the same at 50 mg. He did ok through the night, but this combinations and dosage was not controlling his pain. So today they increased his fentanyl patch to 75 mg. and the lyrica from 25 mg. to 50 mg. plus he is still getting 15 mg. of morphine every 3 hours.
I didn't get to come up here until late afternoon and Mom said Daddy was doing pretty good this morning other than being in a lot of pain. This evening he's very fidgety and is doing the crazy talking and hand movements. Sometimes he's in his right mind but for the most part he's not. I think it's where they increased the fentanyl patch because he had these hallucinations the last time he was in here but I'm not sure what the dosage was then. That was when he was having the really bad hallucinations. At this point the hallucinations are not as bad as before but I think the more medication he gets the worse he's getting.
As for now they are planning on sending him home on Sunday provided he doesn't have a setback. However they are going to have to change his medicines so that he's in his right mind before we could even manage taking care of him at home.
We hope that everyone has a very Happy and Safe New Year.
2 comments:
Thanks for the update Hollie. Will keep LeRoy and the Family in my Prayers and Thoughts.
David Layman
Thank you for the update Hollie. I hope they can get his pain meds working better so that he can be comfortable and not in another world as a result of the medications. Keeping you all in our thoughts and prayers!
Carolyn Edelstein
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