Update: 03/20/06

Medications:

60 mg. Oral Morphine in 3 doses.

120 mg. Extended Release Morphine.

1 mg. Lorazepam (for sleeping/anxiety).

10 mg. Compazine

1 tab. NitroQuick

Morning SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 96/Heart rate = 111.

Evening SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 99/Heart rate = 90.

How Joann’s Day Went:

Joann is still having trouble catching her breath, in the morning especially. As her SAT shows, she gets better as the day goes on. This morning she had a new pain in a new place and took a NitroQuick at 7:30 this morning to ease her pain. This new pain is lower than her diaphragm but as sharp as the "belt" she gets around her under her lungs. She’s also saying that she has a dull lower back pain that has gone from infrequent to constant. She’s still taking Compazine, this time only once and an extra Lorazepam at bedtime. In the late night, she was experiencing stomach pains not associated with acid reflux.