hi! as i promised, here is tonight's post! we had an great day today.. I got to the house around 7:40 so I could take care of mom all day.. my last official day of summer duty.. kind of sad if you ask me.
the morning started without a hitch, coffee.. bagel... chatting.. then it came time for pills, flushes and the shot.. that's where it got interesting. the pills were ok.. she definitely growled at me, might have used some colorful language and asked if I was sure she had to still take ALL the prednisone.. then came the flushes.. normally they go so smoothly! mom has a 3 line catheter (triple lumen catheter) in her chest (you may have seen in pictures) which allows the doctors and nurses to administer iv's and take blood without sticking her a million times. the lines are normally used and flushed multiple times a day at the hospital, but we just flush them twice a day at home to keep clots from forming. today, one of the lines was very hard to flush and i didn't want to push too hard because i could cause major problems, like busting a line or dislodging a clot if one formed.... sometimes clots just form.. even in a short period of time.. if they do, the nurses simply hook up medicine to the line and the clot dissolves in less than a half hour.. it's usually not a big deal at all and actually happens all the time.. the problem comes where we (amy and i) told dad we had everything under control.. and mom forced him to go golfing.. and we had to call the home health care nurses and notify Roswell that we couldn't get one of her lines flushed... and dad hid the phone numbers on us (or placed them securly in his wallet so they'd be easily accessable.. if we were with him or knew this at all!) geez. so after searching the house, calling Roswell and breaking down to call dad, we called the home health care number and the nurse said there was nothing they had to even do today, it wasn't an emergency! could have fooled me..
we still were'nt totally comfortable with this, so we looked up mom's neighbor Korrin, a nurse who worked in an oncology office.. and she came and saved the day!! she flushed the line (and said there was some resistance, so i'm glad I'm just not a wimp) and made sure everything looked ok! now it was already after noon! where did the time go?!
we spent the rest of the day eating delicious food, telling stories and sharing laughs with family and friends. mom was able to sit outside for a while this afternoon and enjoyed seeing all her beautiful flowers. when everyone left she sat inside by the fire.. only for like 5 minutes because it was like africa in there.. but she got to sit by the fire none the less!
she could hardly keep her eyes open when i said goodbye a little before 9.. she was looking forward to a nap before her night time pills and then a wonderful nights sleep.. with no interruptions!
Dad's spending the day home with her tomorrow.. she has to get blood taken and they'll check out those pesky lines... then they can just enjoy eachother's company and relax... I'm sure that will feel so nice!
she swears she's going to get to those thank you notes sometime this week!!!
have a good night.. thanks for taking the time to check in on mom.
love.
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