mom update
the tests from Monday came back negative. There do not appear to be cancer cells that have metastasized anywhere else. The port insertion on Friday went well. They used it Monday to put the contrast in for one of her tests. It apparently hurts to use it.
She is in a lot of pain pretty constantly. The expander space holders for her reconstruction are designed to stretch muscle under the skin so that they will have a place to put the prosthetics. I hope she can get herself through this. Come to find out she stopped taking her pain meds. Luckily the nurse told her to stop that. That she had enough to deal with right now and there was no reason to add recovery pain to that. I did tell her this weeks ago but the nurse has more pull than I do.
I am going to drive down to bring her some soup this weekend. I worry about her eating habits. She is thrilled she has lost so much weight in the past year but really its because she just isn't eating much anymore. She cannot do that in chemo. She can't. So I am taking things to her. I feel like there is so little else I can do.
X-posted to DW
She is in a lot of pain pretty constantly. The expander space holders for her reconstruction are designed to stretch muscle under the skin so that they will have a place to put the prosthetics. I hope she can get herself through this. Come to find out she stopped taking her pain meds. Luckily the nurse told her to stop that. That she had enough to deal with right now and there was no reason to add recovery pain to that. I did tell her this weeks ago but the nurse has more pull than I do.
I am going to drive down to bring her some soup this weekend. I worry about her eating habits. She is thrilled she has lost so much weight in the past year but really its because she just isn't eating much anymore. She cannot do that in chemo. She can't. So I am taking things to her. I feel like there is so little else I can do.
X-posted to DW