Hospital Update!

Here's a quick update, I will post more details and updates by later tomorrow with hopefully more news and progress on the pain.

Monday

After Mom was in so much pain over the weekend, she went to see the oconologist on Monday morning for a pain consult. After the past 1.5 weeks of her testing different recommendations of pain medicine from the home and three visits to the ER, the doctor decided and we all agreed that she should go to the hospital in Omaha (she's at Immanuel Hospital - this is where her team of ocologists practice out of) so they could monitor the pain more closely and figure out exactly what could work to stop the pain. They thought it would take about 3 days. This was all a good thing & not to be too concerned with as this was the best for mom. The pain was getting to be too much, too often. The result was to understand the right balance of pain medicine that works for her. Reminder that the Fentanyl pain patch has been managing her pain quite well for the past 5 months until the last few weeks.

Tuesday

After 24 hours into the pain meds, taking off her pain patch, slowly adding pain medicine, she was still in pain. Everyone was frustrated, including Mom. The balance of how much pain medicine they give her is important as they need to understand at what level it is managed. Then, she can manage that at home & get stronger to see what's next. Part of where they believe the most severe pain in her back, chest, and other areas is coming from pressure from the intestine pressing the tumors on her liver. They are trying to relieve the bowel backup which could help a lot. They did do an X-ray of her abdomen to be sure there was backup & to confirm it was nothing else except that.

Wednesday

Now today, she is still in pain, she's had some relief, but still doesn't seem to be under control. We're still waiting for the doctor today to see how she thinks mom is doing and what else they can do. They did do another X-ray on her lower back and side to see if they could see anything else that could be causing the pain, we're waiting to hear.

Prayers, thoughts, love, positive thoughts are needed. She isn't up for visitors right now, sleepy and so tired of all of this pain. Tara, Tyler and I (Travis will likely be coming soon) are here with them today. We are all a little worried, but hoping they can figure out the pain and she can go home soon and be more comfortable.

Thanks you for all the calls, texts, love you are all sending, and what I know are lots more prayers and thoughts we don't even know about. She's a strong woman as you all know.

More to come...