8:26pm
Cindy:
Today marked day 7 since mom started throwing up everything.
I finally went home for the first time in a week to pick up a few things. When I finally got back to the hospital I was sad to discover mom had been put back on a clear liquid diet because she'd been throwing up bile and having pain again. In this short week she's lost over 10lbs and the lack of food isn't going to help,but is necessary in order to give her colon a chance to rest and recover. When the oncologist came by a few hours later she let us know she wouldn't be resuming mom's chemo until mid-November so she could have some time to recoup from the infection, inflammation and malnutrition she's been going through this week. She slept a lot today, but eventually got a energy spurt, took a shower and stayed awake long enough to talk to our brother and tell him about my tripping while carrying the vomit basin. Apparently that's one incident I'm never going to live down,but at least everyone can laugh about it now:-). To lighten the sad mood in the room she asked me to pick up a big bag of candy to give the nurses and doctors whenever they come in, so her room has been pretty popular to say the very least and you'd be pretty amazed how many uses you can get out of a dinner cover. "We need to get out of this place before I start posting these ideas on Etsy".:-) lol
On the up side the views not to bad....
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