Trish here blogging for Cheryl! Sorry I didn't blog earlier, I know you are all waiting to know what's going on! After I blogged this morning God gave us a small miracle! Cheryl woke up and stayed up for several hours!! She was awake, alert and talking!! She still was slightly drowsy, but was able to have conversations and her pain level is down to a 3 or 4!! The doctors here have been working very hard to achieve this goal of better pain control with the ability to be awake. So she is no longer on the Morphine for pain, they changed it to Dilaudid. While she is not consider allergic to the Morphine they think she does not metabolize the end products of Morphine, meaning that the Morphine is lingering. The Dilaudid seems to be working better. Her levels have not been checked again yet (they usually do that in the mornings), but they are watching her levels closely. Since she did get 2 units of blood yesterday she looks much better. She has her coloring back again (it's amazing what a little blood will do!). Anyway just wanted to make sure I got this Praise report out to you all who are fervently praying! I really enjoyed Cheryl today as she was more like herself. Her oxygen levels are still dropping when she is active and at night, but she is holding her own! Her cousin Andy was here tonight too. It was really nice to have company and conversation! As Cheryl says always, "God knows what He is doing" and boy am I praising Him for a better day, with better pain control and better wakefulness! Till tomorrow! ~ Trish ~
PS pray for her Mom who flies in tomorrow! (See you soon Mrs. Dearing!)
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