Hospital Days 2-4

So excuse the greasy hair (hence why i am wearing the hat) and my adult onset acne and non make up face. Heather has a good style going on too. I asked her if she stuck her finger in a light socket when she got up this morning. Too cute I love it!

I am sure that after the post on Saturday people are curious to get caught up. I am proud to say there is not much to say. On Saturday Heather was a new person. Still weak, but had color in her face and her spirits were up. She was able to get to the bathroom in her hospital room with the walker. That is about as much physical activity as she can endure. She did not get radiation over the weekend so maybe that helped her feel stronger. However, she did have an MRI on saturday so the neuro-surgeon can take a better look at her brain. A cat scan is like a polaroid it shows you an image quick and id's big tumors or masses. The MRI allows you to see more of a 360 view and you can see all parts of the brain. The MRI ended up showing that instead of 4 lesions that are on the original cat scan, that Heather actually has 10. It does not change the current plan as she is still going to get radiation. But of course must i say it again, can we just get a break from constant bad news???

Heather is having difficulty holding her spoon or cup to feed her self, but not giving up. I told her it is ok to be a little sloppy to maintain some autonomy and still do some stuff for herself. She can not hold a pen well to write and her soduku (don't know how to spell it) puzzle was a bunch of scribbles instead of numbers. She had a bad Saturday night with some vomiting and nausea. She does not get good sleep either at night. She has been doing better with the vomitting yesterday and today and they are going to give her some sleeping meds tonight.

We don't know when she will be getting home. Her condo is on the second level and it would be so hard to carry her up and down those stairs daily to get her to and from radiation. She still needs to be in the hospital as she cannot eat much. So the next step will be what to do for nutrition. Iv fulids is electrolytes and sugar, but not nutritional. There is some IV stuff you can get called total parenteral nutrition that has all kinds of vitamins and stuff in it. So she will either need that or a tube in her nose to feed her. I hope not that. Plus i still think that will make her barf.

Today the neurosurgeon came and told heather the results of her scan. After he left she pretty much put it together that her life would be short. Later when her friend came to visit she sat there brave and told her friend she would be dying and thanked her for being a good friend. That is my Heather gracious and kind even in a moment like this. Thanks to everyone who has emailed or commnented on this blog. The memories and love you have shared for Heather with me are precious. People we have not seen or spoken to in years have some how found this blog and some even have shown up to the hospital. It is amazing how wonderful our network is as members of the church.