Thursday, June 26, 2008

I spent the night at my parents house last night to relive my mom a bit and help her with a few things around the house. Dad is having colon spasm's so it is tricking his mind into thinking he has to go to the bathroom all the time. So dealing with that on top of being weak from the chemo takes all his energy. I have no idea how he has the strength to continue to go to appointments and do all the other stuff we ask of him.

This morning I took dad over to get his DC Pump removed. I knew my dad was retaining water and I felt he had some edema in his ankle's so I asked the nurses to check it. His nurse said he did have edema and called in some fluid pills and some potassium to help with the swelling.

So off we went to the Pet/Cat Scan area where my dad had to try and drink barium. Yeah right! I ended up having to put it in his feeding tube. I have grown to really love this feeding tube. Anyway after that we headed home.

Once we made it home, Jamie from Dr Suki's office called and said we had to bring dad back up to the hospital before 4 today. She said his bladder was distended and they needed to place a catheter in and he needed to see a urologist.

After the nurse placed the catheter in she drained 1600cc from his bladder which is like triple of what a full bladder should hold.

Mom said she thought he was feeling better after all that was completed. All day on Wednesday and Thursday when I was with him he was hallucinating and twitching really bad. He mostly is staying in the bedroom and we feed him through the feeding tube. Now that we got a system down we have actually out weight on him even with a liquid diet. We give him 5 Ensure shakes a day and 2-3 bottles of water through the feeding tube, whatever else he will eat during the day is a bonus. These bonus foods consist of 2 bites of this or 2 bites of that here and there.

I am going to meet mom at Dr Suki's office at 830 in the morning for my dad to get lab work completed. Then I am going to take him home and stay until my mom gets home. I hope he is more lucid tomorrow. That would be a huge plus.