Mom had an appointment with Dr. Pham this morning. Dr. Pham was pleased with how well Mom did in Las Vegas (medically not financially). She said Mom's blood work looked good and Dr. Chan had also reviewed the results and was fine with them. She also checked out Mom's vital signs and said she was doing good, we just need to get the extra fluids out of her tissues. In hindsight, I should have had her on the furosemide while we were in Vegas since I had no control over the amount of salt that was in her food. Dr. Pham agreed, she said to keep Mom on the furosemide until her weight is back down to 95# (she's at 100#, so has about 5# of water weight).
I shared with Dr. Pham that Curtis said Mom was 10 times better on this trip than on the end of June trip. (She went to the emergency room the day after they returned and was diagnosed with leukemia a few days later.) In June, Mom had to take breaks every couple of hours, said her legs were feeling heavy, and would be breathing heavily whenever they had to walk a bunch. This time Mom stayed up late gambling, only complained about her hip hurting from sitting at the video poker machine, and had no problem with breathing, though we did make her use the wheelchair when we went to Du-Pars for breakfast since it was a block away from our hotel.
Both Mom and Dad were back to their normal sleep patterns today. I made pulled pork in the electric pressure cooker again and we had dinner at the normal time.
A couple other things I forgot to mention earlier, there were a lot of messages on the answering machine when we returned. Several were from cousin Noreen, her mother Aunty Jean - Dad's sister - passed away on Monday. Aunty Jean was 4 years older than Dad. Now Dad is the last of his 6 siblings that is still left. There was also a message from Lei, the daughter of Dad's friend Walter. He passed away on Friday.
Mom's friend Evelyn also called. We scheduled a trip to visit with her next week. She lives in Haleiwa on the north shore of O'ahu.
On the evening that we returned from Las Vegas, after Curtis dropped us off he went to use the bathroom and the chain on the toilet broke. Since I slept till 6 pm yesterday I never got around for getting the new flapper valve, so I did that today. Trying to see into the tank was difficult since Mom has a cabinet installed over the tank so I used the flashlight app on my phone and balanced it on the edge of the tank. But don't worry! I have a LifeProof case so if it fell in it would not be a problem. (If, however, it leaked the warranty on the case would have bought me a new phone!) Sorry no photo, Smart phones can't provide light and take a photo of itself at the same time ... yet.
Happy Birthday to Bilbo & Frodo! And Happy Hobbit Day!
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