Wednesday, September 24, 2014

My sleepy boy

Brody is doing well after his surgerys.   And,  LOOK,  no tubes in his nose!   NG and NJ tubes are out and he's off of the oxygen in his nose now too. 

He is very tired but hopefully will feel more energetic as his pain medication is titrated down today.  

I was very nervous last night that he might start vomiting a lot again since he no longer is on any suction for his gastric contents.   He just has the g tube to gravity drainage.  So far (knock on wood) he is doing about the same in the nausea department as he was before this change.   Nausea is still a battle but it's not worse since the switch to g tube.  

Brody's left leg is very swollen and he is having trouble moving his leg.   He had a doppler ultrasound of his leg a little while ago.  I do not know the results yet.   They were checking for a blood clot.  It is suspected it could just be due to pressure from the growing tumor and inflammation from the surgeries.   Fortunately,  his leg is not hurting him.  

We are hoping to bring him home tomorrow.   We have been approved for hospice care (along with giving Eribulin to treat the tumor).   Once we are back home on hospice, we should have more support than we had previously at home.  

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