Judith resumed chemotherapy yesterday, and has been sleeping most of the time since then. She is very weak (and miserable). Her oncologist called late last night telling me her blood test showed her to be too high in saline, and instructed me to administer additional IV fluids late last night. Her nutrition and IV hydrating fluids were readjusted by the UCLA home infusion pharmacy today, and her doctor wants her to have daily blood draws and labs now (as opposed to once a week as we have been doing while she's been home). I guess this will be until her saline is corrected.
Our son Greg and I spent some time with a social worker at UCLA today to find out what resources exist in the community to deal with Judith's depression, and to help us chart the course ahead for all of us. Unfortunately there isn't much, unless one enters a hospice program, which is not in the cards for us at this time. But she did have a few good suggestions and some written information that applied to our situation.
So we slog on.
And on.
WES (aka the faithful night nurse)
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