Stuck in the Mud

Stan here:

We have all been stuck in the snow. Salt, shovels and human pushes eventually solve those problems but somehow we sort of got stuck in the mud here for a few days and no matter what we did we were not  making progress.


Due to some of the difficulties of transitioning some of the drugs we made a decision last week to have Deb be cared for at a local facility.  On that day we decided that Deb was having some confusion problems and some response problems so Hospice decided it would be best to get her outside of the home to help with the care.

Without pointing fingers we had problems at the care facility.  For some reason they just could not seem to figure out how important it was to get the medications for pain on time and the consequence was more pain than she had here at home so we did kind of a "jailbreak" and decided to come home and just do the best we could. So today we are attempting to transition from the Morphine to the Methadone right here at home.  So far that seems to be going good.  I do not have that many other details right now as things are changing now almost daily but I did want people to know that Deb is home.

I am not sure either how to really explain how this all happened but I do know that the situation as it relates to pain has a small window of getting the stuff needed for relief.  More later but for now we are doing a good job of this at home.

Stan