Non-stat Day:
When I approached Mom, immediately after she awoke while still in bed, with what I wryly refer to as "the instruments of torture", the blood pressure wrist cuff and the glucometer, she shook her head and wearily asked, "Do we have to do that today? Not today."
I quickly checked her feet and her sheets, both of which showed that she had, indeed, flushed quite a bit of fluid. I agreed with her. "You're right. Not today. No stat checks today."
It was a good decision. She relaxed today and revived from all the medication I gave her yesterday and all the tension I created checking, checking, checking her blood pressure. She slept a fair amount between night sleep and her nap and ate three good meals: Normal breakfast; typical lunch of cottage cheese, V-8 juice and MCS's Bread & Butter pickles; a dynamite, delicious dinner of a large dinner salad with mixed greens (no iceberg lettuce), broccoli slaw, sliced radishes, chopped Bermuda onion, green pepper and green pimiento stuff olives, shredded carrot, a sprinkling of sunflower seeds and toasted soy nuts and about four ounces of the salmon left over from last night which marinated all day in fresh lemon juice, dressed with my Greek/Italian combo dressing. She drank a fair amount of liquids throughout the day but not too much. No swollen feet or belly when she retired tonight at 2300; light out at 2330.
I quickly checked her feet and her sheets, both of which showed that she had, indeed, flushed quite a bit of fluid. I agreed with her. "You're right. Not today. No stat checks today."
It was a good decision. She relaxed today and revived from all the medication I gave her yesterday and all the tension I created checking, checking, checking her blood pressure. She slept a fair amount between night sleep and her nap and ate three good meals: Normal breakfast; typical lunch of cottage cheese, V-8 juice and MCS's Bread & Butter pickles; a dynamite, delicious dinner of a large dinner salad with mixed greens (no iceberg lettuce), broccoli slaw, sliced radishes, chopped Bermuda onion, green pepper and green pimiento stuff olives, shredded carrot, a sprinkling of sunflower seeds and toasted soy nuts and about four ounces of the salmon left over from last night which marinated all day in fresh lemon juice, dressed with my Greek/Italian combo dressing. She drank a fair amount of liquids throughout the day but not too much. No swollen feet or belly when she retired tonight at 2300; light out at 2330.
posted by Gail Rae @ 23:59
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