About the same

No caregiver with her this morning, but since she's in dialysis, I thought I'd take my walk. How is she? Not a simple answer. She has been sleeping through the nights in the hospital, which feels like a miracle. She is very dopey whenever I visit. She complains that they are overmedicating her, but I think it's the sleeping pill they give her, which probably doesn't metabolize out as quickly, because her kidneys don't work. The neck CT scan showed no significant change in the past few months since the last scan. My guess is that the increased neck pain is caused by her sleeping in a bad position. She tends to lean her head over at an exaggerated angle, when no one is helping her to avoid that. The pressure sore seems worse than last week. Her leg sores don't seem any worse. One of her hands has really bad deep scabs on all of the knuckles, probably because she scraped her hand doing something. They are so deep and hard, that they must be causing her immense pain. That's getting much better, since I started putting tons of moisturizing lotion on both hands, several times during each visit. The bowel control problems have significantly reduced, since she stopped taking the chemo med for the CML. Unfortunately, the trade-off is that her white cell count is going through the roof. An Oncology doc stopped by yesterday, and mentioned that he saw blasts in the smears, which is generally bad, but might be mitigated by the fact that the WBC is very high because she's (temporarily) off that med. He said the medication for CML is very targeted, and should not adversely affect wound healing. So she should consider restarting that soon. Sorry if that's TMI for some, but I know others will appreciate knowing some of these details.