Stopped by Mom's last night after work and she was still down and out. It's surprising for her to go from one extreme on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, where she was doing as good as she has in the last month, to Thursday, Friday and Saturday where she is as sick as she has been since she was in the hospital.
Becky and I discussed more of what made her feed so good on those days vs. what caused the turnaround to this. Last weekend she was suffering with the bad rash and on Sunday she was started on prednisone. On Tuesday we took her to Dr. Hough and he gave her a shot of cortisone for the rash and told us we could stop the prednisone.
We had Dr. Hough paged last night and spoke to him about it. He said the shot would not have caused this and actually should have helped. We talked about how well she did after being on the prednisone for a few days he said to start her back up on it. It will stimulate her appetite and he also called in a liquid prescription to help the appetite also. It was clearly the fact that she started eating more last week that was making her so strong, just as it is clear that she only had 2 pieces of toast and one Popsicle from Thursday though Saturday and she has gotten so weak. I just now called Becky and Mom took 2 pills last night and was having some toast this morning. Becky said she did look a little better this morning. Her rash is going away also.
Lets pray that these pills are the answer to keeping her hungry and strong. As Dr. Hough made sure to point out that our goal here is to keep her comfortable to the end and if this is what does it then lets keep her on it. Take care, Jim
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Ok, day one of the prednisone and Mom looks much better. She ate a piece of toast for breakfast, some watermelon for lunch and some of Peg's yummy turkey noodle casserole with strawberry pie for dessert. One small problem, her cough is back. After no cough syrup for 4 days, she has had two doses today alone. But I am giving this day a good mark.
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