Really not much to report

We talked with the Oncology staff on Tuesday and they are not so ready to switch Mary to the neurontin. It turns out that the transistion from narcotics to neurontin is fraught with difficulty including withdrawal symptoms from the narcotics and several neurontin side effects that need to be monitored during the switch over. So, for now we stay on fentanyl and morphine.

The good news is that once you start the morphine, the body tends to adapt to it after 10 to 14 days. And, based on Mary's behavior the past couple of days (#12 & #13), Mary seems to be stabilizing and getting into a routine. There are still plenty of hours of sleep and often times things come out of left field. Just tonight she told me about being in a store and someone had seen or heard my family name and they were from Alabama. Well, after several approaches she finally recalled it happened over a month ago, the someone was the clerk accepting a check she wrote and she still is not sure what store it was in. Considering she hasn't been anywhere other than Stanford or with me and one trip to her hairstylist, we'll check with the hair studio to see if it was real or if its a hallucination.

MaryR has helped a bunch this week, spending several hours in the middle of the day on Monday and also buzzing to the house at the end of the day Tuesday to give Mary her medication. We don't allow Mary to self administer the morphine--too dangerous to lose track. Anyway, I was tied up at work and thank you, MaryR!

Ingrid spent a very long time today here at the house helping Mary so thank you Ingrid! She even managed to show up just as Mary finished her shower so her timing was impeccable.

As I may have noted before, Mary does not shower unattended after falling a week ago Saturday. Fortunately, when we remodeled we built a shower for two so its easy to be with her and she does appreciate the help. Ingrid plans on being her for Mary's lunch tomorrow as I need to be at work.

On Friday, I will take Mary to her CT Scan at Stanford. We won't get results on that until we see the doctor on the following Friday--unless they find something amiss, then we'll get the dreaded "come see us" call.

Oh, and I am scheduled for cataract surgery on March 17. I am crawling out of my skin to get my eye fixed, it is driving me crazy. And, the doctor reaffirmed that my distance vision can be corrected so that I will not need distance glasses after the surgery. HooRay!