Graham is still in the hospital. He has his waves of ups and downs, but he has been on 2L of O2 for the past week!!! They have changed up his Marinol to only 5mg during the day and 10 mg at night...he's no longer stoned into a frozen euphoria. He is also taking a fairly new medication - oral, liquid Morphine. This gives him instant relief - well, it does take the nurses 45 minutes to bring it, so instant is kind of questionable. There is an obvious difference in Graham. He's laughing again, cutting up, socializing. Friends came up on Easter and he never once became anxious or stressed!!! He actually got irritated they stayed such a short time!
We are still waiting on Cobra paperwork, therefore, he is considered "Without Insurance." Not really looking forward to this hospital bill, but the bigger stressor is there is no insurance to fill all his new medications and equipment...besides Medicaid. I don't know if you've ever dealt with Medicaid but it ain't easy! They tend to drag their feet.
We miss Graham so much at home...it's difficult not seeing him all the time, it's difficult leaving him at night and not being by his side, it's difficult when I stay to leave Jordan. I fully realize that this is the life of many people going through many different circumstances...but it still sucks, they may not whine, but I do!
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| He's going to kill me for this, but this is something we see so rarely! He can make it one full trip around the nurse's station without a break. And 2 laps before he needs bed rest! Current Weight: 96LBS Current O2: 2L |
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ReplyDeleteYay Graham!!
ReplyDeleteHoly Moley, I love the picture, great to see ya motivatin' you know what they say about buzzards?
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