Update

July 21 Midnight

A rough 2 days for mom. She had a power port placed on Saturday night. That is an IV access placed just under the skin of her upper chest near the shoulder. A needle goes into the port. The needle only has to be changed out every 7 days. They can draw most of her labs through the port. They can also give all her IV medicines through it. She also has a peripheral access line.

Today she got 4 small bags of minerals to replace the ones she is deficient in - Magnesium, Calcium, Sodium with Phosphorus, and Potassium. She also got 2 more units of blood. Also she got her IV antibiotic, Levaquin. They stopped the IV with Sodium Bicarb because the Tumor Lysis is resolving nicely. And they stopped the diflucan and allopurinol yesterday.

She is severely malnourished. She is so weak that I have to feed her. The effort to feed herself takes too much energy so she doesn't eat. She doesn't eat enough even when I feed her. We changed her diet from soft foods, to chopped foods to blenderized liquids.

Thanks for the cards. She appreciates them all. April visited today. Mom didn't say much but I know she enjoyed having her there. Stephen, Jean and Meg visited Sunday. She won't be coming to the family reunion this Saturday. I hope she is out of the hospital by then. She needs a lot of assistance to even get out of the bed. And she hasn't walked more than a step or two to the chair.