Tuesday morning

Pain control: the topic of last evening. This has been a bid objective since we started down the C trail. Deb did have the big patches she was wearing; sort of a fabric/plastic pad with stickum on them. The ones dispensing time release morphine ended up burning her flesh.These dark crusty red welt-type rectangles are slow to heal and the ones from several months ago are still present. So we are transitioning to pills as much as possible. We have long term pain and short term pain pills. However, they have been running out before the pain has run out.That causes general unhappiness for about an hour every 6 hours.So, in coordination with our nurse, we tried some different schedules.when you are trying to administer 18 meeds, correctly, it becomes a challenge. The middle of the night meeds are toughest for me because once my sleep is disrupted, I have a tough time getting back to sleep.

At the moment,Deb is settled in a and the nurse has just started the morning routine.BP,temp,wt,etc. Then blood samples out the gazzoo.
Looks like another iv will be started to get her bp up.

Many classmates were telling their stories this morning in the waiting room.It' surprising how many were given months to two years to live locally but would not accept that outcome,so they found out about Arkansas and have been in remission and coming here for periodic checkups for years.