Sunday, March 27, 2011

Home Sweet Home

It took a little while to get a routine down. Now that she's home, she has to take all her medicines in pill form - no more IV. She had 6 pills to take in the morning and 10 pills to take in the evening. She was getting more tired every day, but still feeling pretty good. Aunt Judy was going to be here until Thursday... but a baby girl 6 hours away had other plans!

Kristi called Wednesday morning and said her water broke. She was due at the end of April, but babies don't seem to follow the same calendar as we do. Aunt Judy and Zach packed up and headed south. The rest of the week went pretty well. Dr. Jeong said she would slowly get weaker and the side effects of the chemo and medicines would start showing up. Monday, March 28, she should hit rock bottom and then slowly start to improve.

By the weekend, Mom's mouth was getting very sore. It was bright red and her tongue was swollen. She talked less and less and by Sunday afternoon she could hardly talk at all. She stopped eating and only drank a little. Her mouth was SO dry. It was hard to swallow all those pills! One of her pills she took at night was a HUGE potassium pill. It disintegrated the minute any liquid touched it, and it was like a pile of sand. There was no way that sucker was going to slide down that throat. My sister-in-law (Chad's sister), Jodi, is a pharmacist. We asked her if we could dissolve that pill in pudding or water or something. She told us how to dissolve it and Mom got it down. I don't know what we would do without doctors, a nurse and a pharmacist in the family! I mean, my art degree is real handy to have, but the medical degrees have really helped us get through some of this!

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