Good morning! Don & I are headed to Madison for a consult with the pain doctor. When we were there last week and he changed up all the meds, he wanted to take a week to see what was working, what wasn't, etc., etc.


The pain is about 90% gone!!! Amen!! The other 10%, though, is causing quite the problem. I cannot stand on my feet for more than three to four minutes, thereabouts. So we'll see what he has to say.


Life has been interesting on more morphine...when I'm awake, I have no problems with all the drugs. But when I go to sleep, that's when "stuff" happens and it's usually the middle of the night, though these have been known to happen anytime I fall asleep!! I've asked Don to water the refrigerator, I "lose" things in the bed and spend many minutes trying to find them - lost a tube of toothpaste in bed one night (I was shaking out the sheets to look for it) and I continue to lose little scraps of paper in the night (again shaking the sheets to find them), but my fingers don't work so good and picking up the scraps is a problem (in my dreams). I talk out loud, I push grocery carts, thought his arm was a log one night and tried to throw it back into the river...

Don says my arms and legs are moving a lot in the night - most nights. This one particular night the restless stuff was pretty bad so Don threw his leg over my legs and his arm over my arms to see if that might help quiet me down. It worked for a little while, but then I was hunting for something else. We'll see what the doctor says today!

Don is most patient and kind - we are just enjoying one another to the max. He works in the kitchen now. He prepared most of our Christmas Eve food. Please keep him in your prayers.

Well, off we go...I'll write more later when we get home from the doc's office.

Love you,
Deb