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Ten Degrees and Getting Colder

  Cold Sunrise   That's just the name of the song written by Gordon Lightfoot.  It was actually -13 F when I got up this morning (wind chill -24).  Tucson may have pulled back into the lead!  There's a lot of weighing pros and cons of Colorado vs Arizona by the wood stove.  Not much else to report. I did enjoy a few games of pool and a beer with my brother this week.  We don't get together very often, so it's good to try to keep the lines of communication open, especially with my mother celebrating her 86th birthday next month.  He lives in Milwaukee and just started semi-retirement.  Our opposing politics and lifestyles keep things very casual and surface-level.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.   It's important to find common ground.  He and his wife have started going to concerts and recently saw the Steve Miller Band.  Music is one of our common interests.      
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Justin tolerated his tracheostomy and has been breathing with the assistance of a ventilator since Friday.  The next step is a transfer to a specialty hospital, where he will receive speech therapy and learn to eat with the trache.  The average stay there is about 25 days, but nothing has been average about Justin's hospital stay so far, so we will see.  

The newest development is the prescription of fentanyl patches to alleviate Justin's back pain.  These take about 12 hours to start to have an effect and then last about three days, supposedly.  When I visited Justin this morning, it had been 15 hours, and he wasn't feeling any pain relief yet.    Too much pain medication means that he is too groggy to do breathing therapy.  Too little, and he is in excruciating pain. 

That hospital transfer will supposedly occur tomorrow.  Another day of "one day at a time." 



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MFH said…
There's Allie!!!

And Justin is smiling!! And so is Julia!!

OMG!!!
February 21, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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