No big news today Amanda’s doing good still in pain though. Yesterday we tried cutting one of the pain meds down to 1 pill instead of 2 but that just didn’t end up working. I ended up giving her 1 and a half for today. She seems to do better on that for now.
Our primary doctor’s PA called back today to tell me she was still working on getting the Medtronic rep. She text me this afternoon and let me know to expect a call from the rep. We haven’t received a call yet. We will still need to go see the primary tomorrow or Friday to get a prescription for both pain meds.
As I said yesterday God had given me a great passion for cooking, my second calling/passion is to love on teenager and lead them to a life of adoring Jesus. Tonight I got to spend a little time doing just that at our regular youth meeting. It was good to see their faces and to meet a few new ones.
I finally got our shower chair set up along with a handheld shower head. So Amanda was able to take a shower this evening. Having a large walk in shower is a blessing for this. The shower was a little rough for her and fairly painful. Just to much moving around on the side with all of the incisions. The water running over the surgery site is even painful.
Amanda usually loses weight after surgeries like this because she eats so little. She has lost some but she’s retaining a little fluid even with all the diuretics she is taking. With mama feeding us the last few days and all the snacks we have I think I’m going gain whatever Amanda’s is loses!
Up and around
Amanda been up today the most since we’ve been home. She’s been on a few walks making laps around our living room so I’m not very popular today either! I’ll try to get her up and around even more tomorrow. Amanda says I’m a mean nurse but my response is she makes requests that she wouldn’t make of a regular nurse!
We still haven’t received a call from the Medtronic rep. I don’t think we’ll be getting one to be honest. I text the PA this morning to let her know. She called him and left a message to call me back but still no call all day. We were planning on seeing the doctor when we saw the Medtronic rep. Since they didn’t get ahold of us I called to get a follow up office visit with our primary but he was gone today and they didn’t have anything till Monday. Amanda will be out of pain medicine by the weekend. I text the PA back to ask her if we could get the prescriptions without coming in. I got her info on what Amanda was taking and sent her a pic of the new prescription. She got right on it and had the scripts ready for the doctor to sign when he gets in tomorrow. We love our primary and his PA they are both great and have both given us their cell numbers. Which is convenient for days like this. They have both been so helpful over the years.
If we don’t hear anything from the Medtronic rep I guess I’ll call the doctors office in San Antonio for an apportionment before we go back to Houston. We also need to go ahead and get the appointments set for Houston also.