Update: 03/28/06

Medications:

200 mg. Oral Morphine in 8 doses.

180 mg. Extended Release Morphine.

1 mg. Lorazepam in 1 dose (for sleeping/anxiety).

20 mg. Compazine in 2 doses (nausea)

Morning SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 89/Heart rate = 130 (sitting).

Evening SAT: Oxygen Saturation = 93/Heart rate = 101 (lying down).

How Joann’s Day Went:

SSDD (Same Shit, Different Day). Joann had a very rough day today. I keep worrying about giving her too much morphine, but her pain is such that she just gobbles it up. And, I can tell its her pain too, she starts violent spasms when she needs more medication. However, she was a little better by evening, so she, Bill and I played a short game of cards. She ate well of Bill’s magnificent ground-beef-sausage meatloaf. We were in bed by 11:00 PM. I was really exhausted as I hadn’t slept the night before due to keeping Joann’s oxygen on all night so she didn’t bleed.