Things are looking up again. After a terrible Monday with confusion, disorientation, and lack of communication, Melvine rebounded Tuesday and Wednesday to make significant gains in her mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual life.
After a modification of Melvine’s prescribed medication, namely for pain, she is back to normal. I think the chemo she had received last Friday had worn off.
Julie, with in-home physical therapy from St. Mary’s, was able to continue getting Melvine to stand from her new La Z Boy recliner, place her hands on her rollator walker, and instead of two laps in our home, she made three. Melvine says, “I am out of breath with the second one, but I was able to do a third lap and I was really tired.”
Julie comes twice a week to help Melvine with her exercises. The more she does gradually, the stronger Melvine will get.
Melvine’s cough continues, but I am giving her medication for it along with cough syrup. I hope that this cough will soon leave her. Your prayers will add immeasurably to what I am trying to do for her.
Melvine ate better today and that is another plus.
One of the good things about Melvine’s La Z Boy recliner is that she can raise her feet and legs up to help with the circulation in her legs. It is good to take a nap or sleep in it.
One issue is the Meals on Wheels. Melvine doesn’t like them, but I do. Today was delicious. So, I had to make Melvine a banana, mayonnaise and bread sandwich with potato chips, and a diet coke. So, what should I do? I must honor Melvine’s wishes. Chemo changes the taste buds and food doesn’t taste like it use to. I can understand that.
Next Monday, Melvine will have a CAT scan. Then, Wednesday, she will meet with Dr. Jane Huang, her oncologist, to get the results. What we will do from there is to be determined.
We need your continued prayers. We want Melvine cured of cancer in her body.
Oral Roberts helped us all to understand God’s love for us and His desire to heal us. Her is a Scripture he often quoted:
3 John 2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
KJV
We desire that measure of health promised here.
Greg has been home. He had jury duty on Monday and was selected. They gave him Tuesday off, and he had to returned on Wednesday for jury duty. They voted to work through the lunch hour and he got off around 3 p. m. This was the seventh time he has had jury duty--six in Clarke County and now one in Barrow County where we live and move and have our being.
Greg will leave at 5 a. m. on Thursday to return to McDuffie-Thomson Middle School to teach music. He will have several rehearsals with his students. I understand they will have competition for which he is preparing them.
He will be coming home on Friday after a special rehearsal.
Life goes on, I am making it. Today, I have an appointment with the Nurse Practitioner who works for my cardiologist. I have to be cleared for my up coming out patient Botox surgery to inject medicine in my bladder to slow it down. Pray for me that this surgical procedure will be successful and I won’t have to use a catheter. Lord, please deliver me from such a thing.
May God bless you all.
Hugh H. Morgan
After a modification of Melvine’s prescribed medication, namely for pain, she is back to normal. I think the chemo she had received last Friday had worn off.
Julie, with in-home physical therapy from St. Mary’s, was able to continue getting Melvine to stand from her new La Z Boy recliner, place her hands on her rollator walker, and instead of two laps in our home, she made three. Melvine says, “I am out of breath with the second one, but I was able to do a third lap and I was really tired.”
Julie comes twice a week to help Melvine with her exercises. The more she does gradually, the stronger Melvine will get.
Melvine’s cough continues, but I am giving her medication for it along with cough syrup. I hope that this cough will soon leave her. Your prayers will add immeasurably to what I am trying to do for her.
Melvine ate better today and that is another plus.
One of the good things about Melvine’s La Z Boy recliner is that she can raise her feet and legs up to help with the circulation in her legs. It is good to take a nap or sleep in it.
One issue is the Meals on Wheels. Melvine doesn’t like them, but I do. Today was delicious. So, I had to make Melvine a banana, mayonnaise and bread sandwich with potato chips, and a diet coke. So, what should I do? I must honor Melvine’s wishes. Chemo changes the taste buds and food doesn’t taste like it use to. I can understand that.
Next Monday, Melvine will have a CAT scan. Then, Wednesday, she will meet with Dr. Jane Huang, her oncologist, to get the results. What we will do from there is to be determined.
We need your continued prayers. We want Melvine cured of cancer in her body.
Oral Roberts helped us all to understand God’s love for us and His desire to heal us. Her is a Scripture he often quoted:
3 John 2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
KJV
We desire that measure of health promised here.
Greg has been home. He had jury duty on Monday and was selected. They gave him Tuesday off, and he had to returned on Wednesday for jury duty. They voted to work through the lunch hour and he got off around 3 p. m. This was the seventh time he has had jury duty--six in Clarke County and now one in Barrow County where we live and move and have our being.
Greg will leave at 5 a. m. on Thursday to return to McDuffie-Thomson Middle School to teach music. He will have several rehearsals with his students. I understand they will have competition for which he is preparing them.
He will be coming home on Friday after a special rehearsal.
Life goes on, I am making it. Today, I have an appointment with the Nurse Practitioner who works for my cardiologist. I have to be cleared for my up coming out patient Botox surgery to inject medicine in my bladder to slow it down. Pray for me that this surgical procedure will be successful and I won’t have to use a catheter. Lord, please deliver me from such a thing.
May God bless you all.
Hugh H. Morgan