We are now in the double digits of daily opiate intake. We got a wheelchair yesterday just in case. Sometimes it's hard for Ken to walk. But mostly he's a trooper.
By July 1, he will be off all opiates. On Tuesday we meet with the surgeon and learn if he has to have a trial, when the surgery can be scheduled and if there's anything Ken can take during his two week off-all-pain-meds to help with spasticity and cramps. Maybe not.
Ken's sister comes Monday for 10 days to stay with Ken during the day while I'm at work. It will be the longest time they've ever spent together without their parents maybe their whole life, with the exception of one two-week period when Karen was 14 and they spent two weeks at Lightening Dude Ranch, a time Karen loved and Ken hated.
Lucas comes after Karen leaves to spend a weekend tending to his father and his mother.
About Me
- Eventuallysusan
- I am of that age, a journalist since I was in 4th grade and wrote that as my career goal, mother of two grown children and wife of one heroic, sweet man. I am a transplanted midwesterner who makes her home in the Southwest and her living writing for a major metropolitan daily. There are fewer of us than there use to be.
1 comment:
Wow! you guys have a lot on your plate. good luck to you these next few weeks/months? What's the recovery for the surgery? And, what's the surgery for?
We miss you!
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