Marlene and I have been the main care takers. My job has been to stay with Lin at night and figure our all the meds. Marlene's has been to tend to Lin wants during the day and help her Mom, Julie with household stuff.
I was busy after a visit from Bonnie, Lin's new weekday R.N. We had to change all her prescribed meds as I had to give her allot of morphine by mouth, morphine sulfate, numerous times throughout Sunday evening and early Monday morning.
I asked Marlene to help out and help Lin with her shower. We had been fortunate enough to have remodeled our bathroom several years earlier and built a large walk-in shower. Marlene donned her bathing suit and got in the shower to get the water ready. Meanwhile, "independent" Lin decided to get her own clothes out of the closet. The door bell rang, Chickl`e was going crazy as usual. The hospice nurse, director and a training aid had all come to the door. I went to get the dog and move him to the back room when next thing you know, Marlene is screaming and commotion breaks out. Lin fell backward from her walker. She struck her head, right where she had a new growth of a tumor and smacked the hell out of the tumor that sticks out on her back!
Everyone helped and we got her to the her bed. The nurse started with the morphine sulfate and gave her enough to finally knock her out. She slept most of the evening. She was in extreme pain.
My mom, sister Pat, her husband Ray and my sister Marti, all came by to visit. We got Marti to sit with Lin so we could go run some much needed errands.
Marti called, Art had brought over a brisket, beans and tortilla's, we did not need to worry about dinner. This has been a phenomenon, one day we got a happy face balloon and truffles, Allison made us a killer chicken pot pie, Terry and her daughter from down the street brought over a chicken, veggies and a coconut almond cake. Our friends from the corner, Judy and Ron brought over a pot roast and rolls and my reliable neighbor Burt brought us over a six pack of beer when we most needed it badly.
Lin looked to be in awful pain throughout the night. She finally awoke around midnight and wanted to sit in the living room and talk!
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