A Blog Retraction

Ok, ok so Angelique’s declaration yesterday of “no pain” was drug-induced and a little exaggerated, so I guess I need to hereby retract my blog post of yesterday. However, her pain seems to be “managed” at this point. She mostly slept through the night, which is new and welcome, and when the Hospice nurse called this morning and offered to come over and increase her drip, Angelique waved her off. Her pain was at a “tolerable” level-5 and she wanted to see how she’d fare through the day.

At about 4 this afternoon the nurse called again and this time Angelique requested the increase in dose. After the nurse’s visit we got her (Angelique—not the nurse) bathed and as of 7 pm, she’s sleeping ahead of her dinner of my mom’s homemade chicken noodle soup. As I write this, I’ve got the baby monitor speaker here on my desk so that I will hear her when she stirs.

Meanwhile, I’m seeing dark, heavy clouds in a couple of directions and it appears that some locales are receiving the rain that they so badly need; but not this locale. It’s so dry here you could lose a golf ball in the cracks in the soil. The dry conditions only amplify the heat. A good shower would not only nourish the earth, but I’m sure it would put everybody, Angelique included, in a better frame of mind.

The nurse has given us a “heads-up” that the IV bag will run out of medicine sometime in the wee hours. We are to call her, at which time she’ll come out and change out the medicine bag, so we’ve got that to look forward to. Oh, boy!

Let’s just hope that waking up in the middle of the night and changing out her medicine bag is the worst that happens until tomorrow.

Thanks for caring. Stay tuned.