Thursday, January 26, 2012

IT TAKES TWO !!

MIKE TOLD MYSELF, AND HIS HOSPICE NURSE THAT HE DID NOT SLEEP WELL NIGHT BEFORE LAST.  HE SAID HE COULD NOT PUT HIS FINGER ON WHY.  SHE ASKED HIM SOME QUESTIONS, BUT HE SAID NO TO ALL OR MOST OF THEM.  SHE THEN CALLED HIS HOSPICE DR. TO LET HIM KNOW ABOUT HIS NOT SLEEPING WELL, BUT ALSO THE CONDITION OF HIS STOMA BAG.  SHE SAID IT HAS BLOOD IN IT, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER STUFF FLOATING AROUND.  I TOLD HER I KNEW THAT AND THAT HE HAD JUST GOTTEN OFF ANTIBIOTICS FOR A DIFFERENT PROBLEM, BUT THAT COULD BE A RESULT.  SHE STILL CALLED THE DR. AND HE WANTED MIKE TO GO BACK ON SOME ANTIBIOTIC ESPECIALLY FOR THAT PROBLEM.  ALSO THE DR. UPPED HIS ONE SLEEPING PILL A NIGHT TO TWO.  THEY ARE VERY LOW DOSAGE, SO HE THINKS THAT THE TWO WILL DO THE TRICK. MIKE TOOK HIS FIRST ANTIBIOTIC PILL  WITH LAST NIGHTS DINNER.  WE GOT A CALL FROM OUT SON, WHICH MADE US BOTH VERY HAPPY.  IT SEEMS THAT OUR YOUNGEST GRAND DAUGHTER AUTUMN,  MANAGED TO BUST HER HEAD WHILE THEY WERE ON VACATION AND HAD TO BE TAKEN TO THE E.R..  I TRULY FEEL BADLY FOR BOTH  MIKE JR. & LAURA HIS WIFE, AS I KNOW FIRST HAND WHAT IT IS LIKE TO HAVE A CHILD WHO IS FEARLESS AND A CLIMBER TO BOOT!!  BOTH GIRLS ARE AS CUTE AS CAN BE, AND LILLY (THE OLDEST) TOOK SKIING LESSONS AND LOVED IT. WHO IN THE WORLD EVER THOUGHT A FOUR YEAR OLD WOULD LOVE SKIING?  I WOULD BE SCARED OUT OF MY WITS, AND I MEAN NOW AT MY AGE!!  KIDS THESE DAYS ARE PRETTY AMAZING!!  WELL, I HAVE A DR.'S APPOINTMENT THIS AM, AND I HAVE A HOSPICE VOLUNTEER COMING TO SIT WITH MIKE WHILE I AM AWAY.  I AM TRULY SO APPRECIATIVE TO HAVE SOME ONE TO LEAVE HIM WITH, SO I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HIM TILL I GET BACK HOME. MIKE IS STILL IN BED SLEEPING, AND IF HE DOES WHAT HE DID YESTERDAY-HE WILL STILL BE IN BED TILL I GET BACK HOME.  HOPE LIFE IS GOOD AT YOUR HOME -TILL TOMORROW-JUST ME

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