Saturday ~ from Kara

Hello everyone. Mom finally came home from the hospital late on Wednesday. She has been in lots of pain ever since. She is so uncomfortable, and her pain medication is still making her sick. This morning, she woke up horribly ill and was vomiting all morning. Her visiting nurse came and called her doctor, who told her to go straight to the hospital. She spent the day in the ER at Northside, getting fluids (she was dehydrated), morphine, drugs for nausea, a chest Xray, bloodwork, etc. The fluids helped to get her back under control. She will now have to take a half-dose of her pain medication, and anti-nausea medication around the clock, to help prevent her from getting so sick. She is now back home and trying to rest. We keep trying to reassure her that she won't always feel like this. But we were all warned that the recovery for this operation is long and difficult. Hopefully she will begin to improve a little in time.