Mom Update 2-15-12

Hayden and I went to see Mom today.  They moved her up to the rehab floor of the hospital last night.  They are working with her 3 hours a day.  Just trying to get her strength back.  She got to take a real shower (I think she felt like a new woman!) and did some exercising in the gym this morning.  They are still having a really hard time relieving the edema.  She is still quite swollen.  Another new doctor came in today. I do think he kind of  had an understanding of carcinoid cancer and carcinoid heart disease.  Carcinoid cancer is so different and effects so many different things.  They had taken her IV out, but he had them put one back in to start her on a couple of different diuretics.  Bless her heart.  Mom is such a hard stick.  They tried 3 different times to get her IV back in before they got it in this time.  She was just cringing and in tears. :-( 

She is still having quite a few flushing episodes too.  They have started giving her a short acting dose of her Sandostatin three times a day.  Hopefully, this will start helping! 

I guess we will see how things go the next couple of days.  I think she will probably be in there until atleast Monday. 

If you missed my earlier post today on Hayden doing donuts, go here.