11:45pm. Katie is doing so well. Her allergy-rash from the Percocet is almost completely gone. Yay! The new pills (tramadol) seem to be working fine. She’s still taking Benadryl to chase away the lingering itchy-rash, but I think she will be rash/itch free by Sunday.
The Physical Therapy guy (Scott) was here again; this is his last time since she’s doing so well, and insurance won’t justify him coming over if he’s not teaching her anything new. He showed her stretches for her back, legs, and how to turn herself onto her side when she’s in bed. She has also “graduated” to going up/down the steps on alternate feet, instead of the “old lady way” of putting both feet on one step, then moving to the next step and repeating.
The visiting nurse won’t be back until Tuesday, so it seems we might have a “normal” weekend for once.
We took our 6-minute walks today….twice. Each day she goes a little farther in the 6 minutes; tomorrow she’s going to walk for 7.
Her incision is healing beautifully.
She is doing so well that there’s not too much of a daily update anymore. We are keeping track of her “pipes”…might be time for another wonderful dose of that “delicious” Milk of Magnesia. <shudder>. The hospital said to get a scale so she could weigh herself everyday…a severe weight gain/loss is not good. Especially a severe gain, as that would mean fluid is backing up. So far she’s been fine.
We are now getting into a pretty good routine, especially with these new pain pills and the benadryl. She takes a dose of the Benadryl and her pain pill at 11 and that seems to get her through til about 8AM for sleeping. I’m also “allowing” myself to get into a deeper sleep now since I don’t have to be worried about her during the night. Feels like I’ve gone full circle back to when she was a baby!!! ha.
Getting more sleep is great for both of us.
Speaking of which….good night.
Til later…….
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