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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Today, mom's doctors told her that they could give her a patch that would infuse pain medicine into her system continuously and let her go home.
They're convinced that she isn't going to eat anything solid and cause a complete obstruction. They think she will be more comfortable at home. As long as the pain patch does its job, I think they are right.

While they were getting the paperwork done, I went to get a Diet Coke. I needed one.... Before leaving the room, I told mom, "See that nurse call button? The nurses REALLY like it when you push that a whole bunch! Just push it as many times as you can!" (note: nurses hate that) Her nurse was sitting outside her room and hollered for me to go play in traffic somewhere. Mom laughed. (Thank you God)

When the paperwork was finished her nurse came in and looked at me and said, "you don't have that IV out yet?? What's wrong with you?" She handed me the stuff to take it out and I told her that we wanted a BIG discount for this. Mom laughed. (tyG)