Potassium - ouch!

I didn't update last night because yesterday was fairly uneventful - Thank God...


Mom did have physical therapy in the morning. She wasn't able to get out of bed, but she did do some leg and arm excercises while lying down. And then she sat at the side of her bed and did some more leg motion excercise.


All visitors left early last night (which gave me some time to sleep before "relieving" dad at midnight"). About 11:30pm the nurse came in and said she would be giving her a potassium and magnesium drip. Hearing the word potassium woke me up. I've had that drip before and remember it being kind of painful causing a burning sensation at my IV site. Within about fifteen minutes, she started complaining that it was hurting. The nurse was able to slow the drip so it didn't seem to cause as much pain - but it bothered her enough to keep her awake. She finally finished it and then had stat checks and such that kept her up until after 4am, when she finally fell asleep.


About 6:30am they gave her a painkiller and she slept until they checked stats again at 8am. Through the night her temperature and oxygen levels were good, but her sugar level went up enough that they gave her insulin. The nurse said that's normal with the PEG feeding and shouldn't be permanent. In relation to that, she seems to be taking food through her PEG well and hasn't had the bad cramping in her stomach. Praying for that to continue because the cramping was so very painful for her.


Today she got an xray and a bath :)


The xray results are good, but doc said it will take time to see how the pneumonia is progressing. She's resting well and pretty much only wakes up to see who is visiting and give a smile.


Sorry for the late post, but glad there isn't anything too concerning to add to her condition. We're hoping for continued rest this weekend to prepare her for the biopsy next week.


xox,
Tommy