[Janet]

Mom isn't doing very well today and her Dr. isn't in until Thursday. She just can't eat and swallow. Since she couldn't eat the meat, mashed potatoes or peas I fixed her tomato soup. She drank about 1/4 cup and that was it. I put her back in bed. A little while later I heard her calling me. She had gotten up on the commode and must have sat there too long, her legs went to sleep and she couldn't get up. Once I got her back in bed Mom then started throwing up the tomato soup. After that.....a coughing spell kept her busy for a couple minutes, but I got her through that. Now she is sleeping. I feel so bad for her.



This morning I went for my appointment with the neurologist. He might be a fine Dr. but I don't like him. Very hard to talk to and doesn't explain things very well even when I ask him too. So...what I got out of it was this: I have degenerative disc disease (which I guess is common?) I also have a slipped disc between C5 and C6 that is touching my spinal cord. At first he wanted me to go see someone about pain management. I told him that wasn't going to help the problem, just mask the pain. So now he wants me to continue with the PT and wrote on a script paper for the PT to use traction. I go for PT in the morning and I'm suppose to go back to the neurologist in a month. I think I'm going to talk with my regular Dr. to see if I can see someone else. This guy is just too weird for me. I need someone easier to speak with and who can explain things better.

He did say that if the therapy doesn't help, we can see about injections of some sort and then the next step would be surgery. I just don't know what else to say, excet I don't need this right now.