It's so repetitious, saying, "Well, Jimmy seems a little better today...blah, blah , blah" and in some ways he is, but our situation is radically changed from a month ago. A month ago, there were issues, but we were going to the beach, dining in restaurants, he was driving to the office for a few hours. Today he cannot make it from the bed to his chair without a walker and oxygen, and even doing that drops his oxygen level to high 70's, low 80's. It goes back to high or mid 90's after a few moments rest, but it frustrates him no end. He is so weak and it exhausts him to talk.
Maybe it's all the inactivity or maybe it's all the coughing or maybe it's something more sinister, but his back pain has worsened to where I've had to increase his pain meds. We know that the cancer which attacks the bones is active, and we've had to stop the chemo because of the respiratory problems. It's a vicious cycle.
He's still asleep (it's only 12:30 PM!) but last night we were making a tentative plan. I'll rent a a wheelchair and get a portable canister of oxygen and we'll go have his back scanned to see what's what. If it's bad, we'll get to Atlanta, somehow or other, and if it's not, we'll look at it from the physical therapy angle.
In the meantime, we continue dealing with the breathing problem, and he seems a little better... (sigh.)
No comments:
Post a Comment