We hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July.
Daddy is now set up with Hospice. They are supposed to come once a week for now. They are working on getting his pain under control. They stopped his coumadin and put him back on just an aspirin once a day. One of his medication that he had only been taking 25mg of they upped to 100mg. They also started him on a steroid that is supposed to be 4 - 5 times stronger than prednisone. It's supposed to help reduce the swelling and inflammation from the cancer. The nurse was also talking about putting him on an additional medication to help with the nerve pain. He is also still taking the morphine as needed.
Daddy has been feeling pretty bad the past 4 days. He started with diarrhea on Wednesday and was still having some this morning. As you can imagine he's been very weak because of this and actually fell trying to get out of bed this morning. Mom said his nose bled a lot for about 45 min., he has a cut on his left wrist and scraped the skin off one knee. Mom got him all cleaned and bandaged up. By this afternoon he was looking better so hopefully the diarrhea is over. If not; we are going to call the Doctor tomorrow.
Thank you to everyone that has called or visited and for all your support. The past week has been especially difficult for Mama.
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Thanks for the update Hollie. You're all in Zach & my prayers. Please let your Mom & Dad know we're thinking of them -- I don't want to call & bother them.
Please let me know when Uncle Roy is feeling better so I can come out for another visit. I know when Mom wasn't feeling good, company was often more of a burden than a help and I don't want to do that.
Much Love & Many Blessings,
Karla
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