Dad is back in the hospital.  One of the maintainence chemos (administered in the hospital) knocked him out of commission for a bit.  First his kidneys started failing, they're finally back on the mend, and now he has a nasty chest infection.  The main thing the chemo does is stops cell production, so Dad's throat, mouth and lips are extremely and most painfully sore.  With the cells unable to replicate his throat, mouth and lips can't heal.  Which means he can't swallow and the constant coughing up of fluid is wrecking havoc.

 

Oy vey.

 

I'm still exhausted and Dad being ill adds more stress which compounds my exhaustion.  Anyway, suddenly Dad can't be alone in the hospital which means I'm there longer than I should be.  But he's my dad, what else would I do?  On top of that, it seems my strength of sleep med isn't working out anymore.  I dread increasing the dosage because there's only so far I can go with this med.  After I hit the max and it no longer works what else is there for me to use?  Nothing, this is the top of line medication.

 

Double oy vey.