Her present care is medicine management, PEG feeding, swallowing intake, excercise and confidence are my main obstacles. Her PEG tube has been replaced twice since May due to infection or blockage. She has had MRSA twice. Her radiation is finished and is recovering slowly. She has good days and bad. She is supposedly cancer free, but this is a recurrence she had a partial glossectomy in 2003. Stopped smoking for 2 years then started again....
I am afraid she is becoming to dependent on sleeping pills and pain meds.(methadone 2xday, oxycodone as needed). She weighs 99lbs, 5'2. The docs have her convinced she may need them for years!!!! God I hope not.
I have to leaver her home alone all day while I work and kids in school. So afraid she is going to fall or pass out and my kids will find her. We have already had a heart attack scare and she is now starting to take blood thinners on top of everything else.
She is afraid to be alone too....