Chapter 162 - Just a Meds Update
Last Friday she decided she needed more medication. Just needs more help. I am unable to explain why. On our gradual slope to debility I notice that she hardly ever needs help rising from chairs (unless she has sunk into someone else's lounge, which always tries to avoid), or rising from the loo, she has been sleeping soundly, mostly holds my arm should we walk anywhere and if she visits a neighbour sometimes she relies on her walker and in super markets she always pushes the trolley, usually does a piece of machine embroidery each day, completes each week but never wins anything useful from her two "puzzle" magazines, rarely needs shower assistance since her leg healed. Yet she shuffles with small steps about the house. When we walk together my striding forces her to step out, making her short of breath. Her only urgencies I remember from the last few weeks has been when, in a lather of perspiration (being a lady) she has called me on the CB because her blouse or nightie has stuck around her shoulders or her trousers have stuck around her legs or bottom.
So on Saturday morning she increased her Sifrol from 500mg to 1 gram. So her daily meds are now 6am 1gm S 1CR 12noon 1gm S 1CR 6pm 500mg S 1CR & 12 midnight (approx when she wakes) 1CR. No changes have been commented upon or noticed in the two days since.
Some concern 2 weeks ago when she noticed that a 1cm or so blemish that had been a beige colour on the opposite side of her left leg to the melanoma site had suddenly turned very dark. And there was a small lump there. I thought it looked like a blood blister but we decided to make an appointment with the GP. Days later the darkness had begun to fade and he obtained a reading of 5 on a scale of 12 with his mole ultra-violet light machine which only detected blood beneath the skin. So no fears about that. However, since the melanoma problem had disorganised her annual checks, last Friday she had a blood test about which she was quite pleased that the nurse had had no difficulty at all taking the sample. Usually there is a lot of trouble finding the vein. She changed her mind once back in the truck when she found blood seeping from beneath the small circular band aid. the seepage ceased by the time we arrived home after visiting the scanning place to make an appointment to scan her kidneys (a check up on her kidney cancer since she wanted to avoid dye injections etc). Then she was concerned that the blood that seeped was very pale.
So on Saturday morning she increased her Sifrol from 500mg to 1 gram. So her daily meds are now 6am 1gm S 1CR 12noon 1gm S 1CR 6pm 500mg S 1CR & 12 midnight (approx when she wakes) 1CR. No changes have been commented upon or noticed in the two days since.
Some concern 2 weeks ago when she noticed that a 1cm or so blemish that had been a beige colour on the opposite side of her left leg to the melanoma site had suddenly turned very dark. And there was a small lump there. I thought it looked like a blood blister but we decided to make an appointment with the GP. Days later the darkness had begun to fade and he obtained a reading of 5 on a scale of 12 with his mole ultra-violet light machine which only detected blood beneath the skin. So no fears about that. However, since the melanoma problem had disorganised her annual checks, last Friday she had a blood test about which she was quite pleased that the nurse had had no difficulty at all taking the sample. Usually there is a lot of trouble finding the vein. She changed her mind once back in the truck when she found blood seeping from beneath the small circular band aid. the seepage ceased by the time we arrived home after visiting the scanning place to make an appointment to scan her kidneys (a check up on her kidney cancer since she wanted to avoid dye injections etc). Then she was concerned that the blood that seeped was very pale.