One Day at a Time

Mom continues to do as well as can be expected with all the medical challenges she faces daily. Stasi arrived back at the apartment on Sunday afternoon while Kathie returned home to be with her family. Kathie blessed Mom greatly with her wonderful care, support and encouragement to Mom. Mom is working hard to consume mass amounts of protein while avoiding sugar. Kathie has had lots of experience with this type of diet within her own family and was most helpful to Mom. Eating comes hard for Mom these days since she feels poorly after she eats or after she takes her medication which is four times a day. Hard to imagine.

Diana Sorensen, a dear friend of Mom's, and Morgan, Mom's oldest grandchild and Stasi's daughter, arrived at the apartment on Monday afternoon. Mom was delighted to see them both and is looking forward to enjoying their company through Wednesday. Stasi is also greatly enjoying Diana and Morgan's sweet fellowship.

Mom is still making her daily trips to the Infusion Ward. She spends at least three hours a day there, sometimes all day. Her fungicide medication alone takes two hours to administer! Add to that platelets, blood, magnesium or whatever else she may need that day and it makes for a long, tiring day.

When I talked with Stasi today, she said that Mom is not feeling as well as she has the last few days. Mom is running a low grade fever (99.4). Her fever is a major determining factor if she will be able to keep her transfusion/IV port. A fever of 100.4 means a trip to the hospital and her port will need to be removed. This would not be a favorable situation. Mom is also sleeping more, coughing and not quite her perky self. She continues to walk, sometimes even without her walker, which is wonderful! Her time lately in a wheelchair has been minimal the last five days. This is good. We will know more after she goes to the Infusion Ward today. At last count her platelets were 18, so she may need platelets today making it a longer day for her.

Please continue to hold Mom up in prayer. As well as she is doing under the circumstances, this is still a very hard road she is walking.