Can't say too much about Mom since I didn't spend ANY of the day with her today... got a call from Chloe's school nurse (2nd school day in a row...) to pick her up from school due to her severe abdominal pain. Friday we spent the afternoon in the ER where they did an ultrasound... normal. Visited the pediatrician Saturday morning... take Tylenol. Went back to the pediatrician today... see a surgeon to rule out appendicitis... saw him... have a CT scan... did that (for 5 hours...), everything seems normal. No idea, maybe some kind of virus that's causing lymph node swelling in her belly. Anyway, poor Mercy who was awake with Mom all night, then had to pull the whole day shift. I called her a couple times and Mom was doing fairly well. She had her massage therapy today, which she loves (by the way, I forget if I wrote this already, but the massage therapist is going to be coming 3x per week starting this week!) I called my dear-do-anything-for-you-friend Judy, who's a nurse, to prepare Mom'd midday medication in my absense. When I got home, Mom was actually fine... spent most of the day in bed after the massage but no worse for the wear. I did talk to the hospice agency today and we got set up with some other medications, not as strong as morphine, for whenever Mom feels that she needs something.
Annie called this morning to talk about how difficult it is to be back home and to be away from Mom, when none of us know how much longer she's going to hang on. The long and short of it is that Annie's coming back up tomorrow night and is going to stay through the holiday. Mercy and I worked this evening to rearrange the downstairs so Annie can have a bedroom. I know exactly how hard it is to go away and then to be away after having been in the middle of taking care of Mom... I don't blame her at all and I'm happy to have her here. Anyway, Mom's calling, gotta run.
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