Update: 03/27/06

Medications:

80 mg. Oral Morphine in 4 doses.

180 mg. Extended Release Morphine.

2 mg. Lorazepam in 2 doses (for sleeping/anxiety).

30 mg. Compazine in 3 doses (nausea)

Morning SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 89/Heart rate = 110 (sitting).

Evening SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 93/Heart rate = 95 (lying down).

How Joann’s Day Went:

My apologies for the lateness of this post. I had been up all night keeping Joann’s oxygen on her face so she didn’t bleed. Tiredness overcame me in the evening.

VNA nurse Wes stopped by today and he finally got a chance to see Joann as we all know and love her. She even took a shower, did up her hair and put on fresh clothes. She hadn’t done her hair in ten days or more. I could tell that she was doing better on the higher doses of extended release morphine. By even, however, she started slipping down that slippery rope of reality to about where she had been the night before. No cards tonight, bedtime by 10:00 PM.