Friday, May 21, 2010

John did not get to sleep well last night. Therefore he could not wake up for me to give him his 6:30 am meds orally. I decided to see if I could get enough through the blocked feeding tube and it went quite easily. I thought that maybe all the flushing and poking they did in the ER last night had finally worked. However, as the day went on it became harder and harder to get the fluids in and finally John began to say that it hurt. So I called the surgeon - and guess what? He does not work Fridays - or holidays. So I cannot get in touch with him until next Tuesday at the earliest. I am not sure how we will make out until them. Worst comes to worst we will have to pray he can swallow enough to go back to giving him the meds orally and hope he can drink some of his protein drink as well.
Today was OK although he had a couple of bad spells and a really bad one tonight because I was late with his 10:30 meds.
I feel like it has been a one thumbs down day just because it was so discouraging.