Biopsy scheduled...

Mom stood up twice today during physical therapy this morning. She needs to work a lot on the strength on her right side, but the therapist thinks she did well.

She had a lot of company in the mid-day when Mondo and I left to check out some rehabilitation centers. That didn't go as well as we had hoped. The facility we visited looked really nice, but we were told that most centers will not accept patients who are receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatments. We don't even know what her care plan will be in regard to cancer, so it's like another waiting game. There are a lot of other factors that are adding to the complication of selecting the place. I wish I had a genie who knew everyone to contact and every question to ask so that we would have the information we need to make this decision. It's a mess and we'll try to hit it up again tomorrow. Hopefully with some sort of advocates help.

When we got back to the hospital, mom was still out of her room getting her CT scan and then her PEG. She came back up about 3:30pm and was in a lot of discomfort and pain. We were told she had to lay down until 4:30pm and wouldn't be able to get pain medication until then. Just about that time I let her nurse know that she was not laying still and talked about her obvious discomfort. We left the room for a time so that she could use the restroom and the nurses could assess any issues. We came back at about 5pm and whatever they gave her for pain (found out later it was percocet) seemed to do the trick. She rested well until about 9pm when my nephew Jessie came in from Las Vegas. She woke up and gave him the biggest smile I've seen from her today. However, she was still too drowsy and uncomfortable to socialize and quickly went back to sleep.

We spoke to the surgeon who is going to do the biopsy and he said he will meet with us tomorrow morning to make sure she's okay to go through with it. If she is in as much pain as she was this evening, he may postpone it. We also met with the anesthesiologist who did an intake of her medical history and they just came in and did a chest xray. If everything looks okay in the morning, the surgery is scheduled for 10am. She probably won't be back to her room until 1pm and her afternoon and evening should be pretty quiet so that she can rest and recover.

Please pray for a restful night to prepare her for a safe and sucessful surgery.

xox,
Tommy