Compounded

Mom is feeling some better, but she is pretty groggy. The goal for tonight is to keep her comfortable and nausea free. We just need to give her poor tummy a break. Just sips of juice tonight. We have had a couple of changes to Mom's medicine this afternoon as a result of the nausea/vomiting.

Mom will wait until her pain level is high before asking, and this puts us playing catch up. We are trying not to be up and down, but to have constant pain relief. I am getting better at reading Mom's eyebrows. Mom is having a hard time distinguishing between the pain and nausea right now so this is making this a little harder.

Since she isn't able to keep anything down, we are using a combination of suppositories and liquid morphine. Mom let me do the suppositories. [These are a specially compounded suppository made specifically for Mom by a pharmacy in Garner. They come in a bullet like plastic mold. ] I agreed only if I could I sing "I see your hinney" as we do this. We are doing the morphine every 2 hours tonight and the suppositories every 6 hours unless we need to move them closer together. Looks like I sing again between 1-3A in the morning. Join in if you get the urge. The morphine is doing a good job of controlling this new pain.

We have a group of hospice nurses coming in the morning at 8:30 to access mom's port. Before Mom left the hospital today, I made sure she was well watered and then they pulled the access. My hope was that we would be able to jump in the shower, and also to give the skin under the Tegraderm a rest. No bath today with what else was going on. When I spoke with the Patty, our social worker today, she said she would be able to get someone to help with this. I can wipe butts and clean up throw up without a problem, but bathing Mom just makes me cry.

Wendy is coming in the AM to meet the Hospice nurses and help get Mom's room situated(and my house.) Yeah! Church brought dinner tonight and some of the wonderful potato soup for Mom. I hope she feels well enough to eat some Friday.