Jolene's Journey

An update to Jolene's condition. When she came home the doctor told me she had 2-3 days at most. After she came home she became more coherent and responsive every day for about a week and has been at the same level of responsiveness since then. Lately, Jolene has been very communicative and recognizes everyone who comes to visit. She seems to be a little bit weaker each day and is eating very little. She only eats about one Popsicle per day along with a rice drink and lots of water. Sometimes she wants something else other than the Popsicle and drink and the nurse told us to give her what she wants. A PRN from hospice comes in every day to clean her and we try and reposition her every few hours so she will be comfortable. A RN comes to visit twice a week. She sleeps quite a bit and is only awake for 4-6 hours every day. If she has any pain we give her some pain medication and that makes her sleep even more. At this point it is a day to day thing and we are just trying to keep her as comfortable and without pain as possible. She has a massage therapist that comes over a couple of times a week and she really enjoys that. If anything else develops we will put it on the blog.

Dick Potter