All told, Saturday was one of Susan's best days in a long time. Friday night's infusion went pretty well, except I did indeed leave out a critical step at the end. When I suddenly remembered it, I startled Susan by turning on all the lights after she had gone to bed and then troubled her with having to do the two syringe flushes that I had omitted. She seemed no worse for wear, however.
We slept in (for us) Saturday morning, and as the day went on she didn't seem to have as much pain and nausea as on recent days. We had two visits from the granddaughters and in between Shari, Megan and Jamie came over for dinner. Susan really seemed to be energized by the visitors, and she even ate a little better than usual, including some Mg-containing guacamole. Only after Saturday night's infusion did she start crashing, and had to take pain and nausea pills before retiring. We are grateful for this otherwise good day, and hope that there will be some more. Another ray of light is that she has had no substantial fever for two days.
Posted by John Dishman at June 7, 2003 11:48 PM