Update: 03/24/06

Medications:

120 mg. Oral Morphine in 4 doses.

120 mg. Extended Release Morphine.

3 mg. Lorazepam in 3 doses (for sleeping/anxiety).

20 mg. Compazine in 2 doses (nausea)

Morning SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 97/Heart rate = 94 (sitting, awake 3 hrs.).

Evening SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 96/Heart rate = 90 (lying down).

How Joann’s Day Went:

Joann had a fuzzy, yet pacific day. She ate well at dinner of Bill’s extremely delicious baked chicken and fresh asparagus. The three of us played cards afterwards and all was well until about halfway through the game. At that point, Joann started having extreme pain and wolfed down three 30-mg. doses of breakthrough morphine in an hour. She didn’t seem tox’ed-out, or so I thought. That seemed to mean she needed the medication, for whatever reason. I won’t know about the new pain centers until tomorrow. AdvantaCare® delivered Joann’s wheelchair this afternoon. At the moment, she refuses to consider using it, but I know that in the future I’ll need it to get her from bed to bathroom.