Tuesday, July 29, 2008
God Give Me Strength
The nights are so long and sleep a butterfly that I chase. It flies ever so lightly through my mind and lights but for a moment. My eyes get heavy and my body so weary from so many long nights. Three o'clock the witching hour. Your fear of death sets in. Will death come to take you in the dark?...
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And Pneumonia It Is
Three o'clock a.m. the witching hour and awake we are again. Richard's lungs are full and he is coughing up yellow sputum. He is still confused and speech garbled but he has equal movement of extremities. I phoned the hospice nurse and decided to give him 80mg lasix and 200mg of doxycillin until the...
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Monday, July 28, 2008
If it's Monday We Must Be Somewhere and Need Something
It has been a frozen day all day long. Richard just cannot move no matter what the activity. It is as if he is stuck to the floor and he has been a total lift for standing and turning but in his mind he is helping. He has ask for the texas cath to be put on. He had to take lasix last night so he...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
Waking up from the snow
It is been a slow day. My intentions worked again and although I had to be up a few times last night, it was short and we were both back to sleep easily. I got to sleep until 9:30am. I fixed breakfast and we both went back to sleep. Richard has had a pretty good day except for freezing. He has not...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Best of Intentions
Sleep wonderful sleep. All be it interrupted in the middle, from the wee hours to almost noon was wonderful. I hope that I will be able to reset my caregiver's hours to afternoon. This way if I don't sleep all night, I can sleep without interruption until noon because it will be daylight outside and...
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