from Rhonda’s notes:
In the bed at 9:30, to the chair at 10:30, back to the bed at 11:00. To the chair at 1am,to the bed at 1:30, to the chair at 3:00 am. To the bed at 3:15, to the chair at 3:30. Back to bed at 3:36.to chair at. 6:30.
On the back porch….finally…
Brad went from the bed to the chair to the couch to the chair ( where he slept for an hour, sitting straight up as Rhonda sat in opposing chair and watched) to the couch to the chair, all within an 8 hour period.
Today is about the same as yesterday. He’s back in the bed this morning.
Today is not good and he hurts, but it’s about twice as good as yesterday. So today’s not that good…yesterday was just that bad. He can make it to the minimum hours between pain medicine and he’s not yelling in pain….that’s an improvement.
Brad slept a long time this afternoon, going 5 hours with a dose of pain medicine. He’s not in a particularly good mood, but today is a whole lot better than yesterday. At least the weather’s crappy, so he’s not missing out on any boating.
He’s back to 4 hours between pain medicines doses, an improvement over yesterday. The pain seems to be tolerable up until the last hour of the cycle.
He showered and brushed his teeth, which makes us all happy. He’s upstairs now playing x-box, so it seems we’re back to where we were Friday.
The Incision
It just wasn’t too good today as the pain was relentless. He’s moved to the master bedroom for now. He walks some, but not much.
Flexoril + Percocet = Knocked Out
RC is also sleeping upstairs (finally). She was getting a little grouchy for some reason…
Liz is here to help out and is knocking out a week’s worth of laundry.
I picked up some muscle relaxers for him, so we’re going to try those instead of the pain medicine for now. He’s being really still in bed and the pain seems a lot better now.
