Well, after three good days, I guess we had to expect a bad one - and we got it. John woke up at 3am with severe hickups, and once they passed, he began to cough and choke on a lot of phlegm. After sitting up for awhile he was able to lay down but we went through the same thing at 5am. By 8am he said he could not stay in bed any longer so I moved him out to the couch and he lay there using the suction machine to deal with all the mucous. When the support worker arrived at 9am he did not want to be moved, or washed, or changed. So she sat and had a cup of coffee with me while he tried to sleep.
The 12am worker was not able to do much more for him. He just felt too awful to even brush his teeth. So we just let him rest.
In the afternnon he did pick up and seemed to feel better for a few hours. Then the congestion and mucous all came back and by bedtime he was almost as bad as he had been in the morning. I gave him his sleeping pills early hoping they would settle him down, but he is in bed and coughing quite a lot.
Please pray he will sleep well.
Two thumbs down for today.
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