Hurting

Upon our arrival, Shayla and I stopped at the nurses' station to inquire about the night. Shayne and I had text messaged until midnight, but I didn't know anything beyond that. Unfortunately, I was told her night was very rough with a great deal of pain and vomitting. When she was here in pain in January, she received 1 mg. of morphine. Last night in the ER she received 2.5 which never helped ease her pain. It was upped to 3 and then 4 last night; yet still not enough for the horrendous pain. They decided to up it to 5 and then to put her on a PCA pump for a continuous infusion. Hopefully, that will help get her out of the pain. Dr. Maris said in hindsight he should have done that last night in the ER, but he was hopeful what he did would have worked, but it didn't.

Dr. Maris was in this morning. He's concerned about what may be going on in her head so she just left in a wheelchair with Shayne to get a CT done. The results will let us know if she'll begin radiation immediately or not. Dr. Maris said that they'd also do her entire left femur to try to help with her leg pain as well while they're giving her radiation. We are in a palliation mode now and will soon be meeting with the radiation oncologist to get things rolling in case we end up going that way. (We'll see what the CT scan results say.)

Dr. Maris said he'd see us later with the news and I'll update then. Shayla will be meeting Mr. Grant and his beautiful girls at noon to give her a break from this hospital. My heart is breaking for her. Days ago, the wonderful Ronald McDonald House gave Shayne four box suite tickets to the Phillies / Braves baseball game for today. We kept thinking we'd somehow make it; yet, yesterday made us realize we couldn't possibly make it to the baseball game. Shayne and I can't stand the thought of leaving Christi, yet I'm certain it'll do Shayla some good to get out with her Phildelphia friends for the afternoon at the ballpark.