At least it's not the other way around taking 1 forward and 2 back...we ARE making progress, but it's slow progress...and that's ok.
After yesterday, I really thought we would be on our way home today, but it doesn't look like it will be today.
Halfway through the night last night, she had some breakthrough pain where she couldn't wait until the next dose of Lortab (it's every 4 hours)...we had to resort to the morphine again, which is every 2 hours as needed. This morning she took Lortab at 7:00, then by 9:00 (after she had gotten up and taken a waist-down, seated shower) she was at a pain level of 8. I guess the shower was just too much. When she gets up, she says she hates gravity, and it feels like the bar is going to pop out of her chest, which I can certainly understand. At 9:am, after unsuccessfully trying to breathe through the pain, the nurse and I decided to try just a half dose of morphine so she could rest. (There was no way she could wait 2 more hours until she could get more Lortab.) This put her right to sleep. It's 10:40 now (only 20 minutes until she gets the Lortab again), and she's still sleeping.
Hopefully she will wake up feeling better. She really wanted to go to the activity room today, and I know she will be disappointed if she doesn't feel like it.
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