Deb is transitioning from one pain med to another and is in real intense pain right now. In fact, she has been doing the Lamaze breathing she used when in labor and delivery so many years ago. The nurses have talked to her several times offering suggestions. Pray for new meds to kick in and do their job.
Today's two learnings:
1> Chemo nurse said to Deb that 'you will feel like we have drug you thru the eye of a needle, but we will get you thru it.'
2> Another learning to remember: 'Drink water: the Doctors will do what it takes to save your life even if it kills your kidneys; it's up to you to save your own kidneys.Drink so you don't have to add dialysis to your life in a few years'
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Yes! Yes! Yes! They told Stuart they would take him right to the brink of death and then bring him back to life...and they did! IT WILL NOT LAST FOREVER!
ReplyDeleteAnd please, please drink SO much water! The chemo comes out though your kidneys...help it come out! Drink as much as is humanly possible....and if you can't drink anymore - make them give you fluids through IV.
This journey will start to fly by...and before you know it, you will be in the middle...and then you will be close to the end of it. And then a life of survivorship begins.
Praying for the pain to ease...and I know FOR A FACT that God is SO close when you are suffering like that. He is close. He is close.
Candace and Stuart