Monday Oct. 13 6pm
Not much new to report. Up until today Mom was still drinking sips of water and we were able to get her to swallow medicine. She's no longer able to do this. We are also starting her on a 24 hour pain patch. We'd been holding off on this and giving the pain medicine as needed in hopes that it would better enable us to gauge if the radiation was improving her condition, which it doesn't appear to be. Since it is difficult for us to tell when she is experiencing pain we felt that the 24 hour pain patch would keep her pain free without us having to guess. We still plan on bringing her home wednesday. Thank you again for all of the wonderful support. We know there are far more people than just us hurting right now. We wish we could lift you up in the same ways you are lifting us.