Hi, Ardith...

AH>          Not to worry... people often write at erratic intervals in this
AH>echo,
AH>depending on their own state of health (or whatever).  The volume of mail
AH>tends
AH>to drop off around Christmas too because it's a busy time for many people.
AH>:-)

  Too busy.

AH>          Well... if it's anything like Nora's treatment for leukemia, the
AH>cure
AH>may seem worse than the disease at first!  The doctors use some very heavy
AH>duty
AH>stuff to get folks into remission, but the protocol is easier later on....

  He is real weak, and hasn't had much of an appetite lately. Janice and
I went over to my parents house Tuesday to walk him a bit. He is
drinking Bulgarian buttermilk, and he likes that. He is also
hallucinating from not eating, and from the medicine.

AH>one of the side effects of Gravol is (guess what??) nausea & vomiting.  We
AH>quit
AH>using Gravol, and she didn't throw up any more or less often as result....

  Want to really torture a rat (rodent)?? Give them Gravol...as they
can't vomit. (I know...warped humor ).

AH>          Ah... I think one's prior experience does play a part here!  I had
AH>to
AH>suppress my gag reflex on many occasions when Nora threw up or had a smelly
AH>BM.

  I've always had a vety sensitive gag reflex...any work in the back of
my mouth or where a tube had to go down, they had to spray a chemical on
the gag reflex to numb it.

AH>But when I was alone with her & my husband was going to be at work for the
AH>next
AH>eight hours, I didn't have anybody else available to do the cleanup.  I doub
AH>a
AH>nurse who expects others to do it would be popular with her colleagues....

  One of the veterinary technicians we know (and some of the nurses at
the clinic my wife and I go to) draw the line at vomiting...whether its
from a human or an animal.

AH>          So you're supporting him as best you can... that's good.  I trust
AH>you
AH>will continue to talk to him on the phone or whatever, as you've been doing.

  It may be just a matter of time now...we've done a lot of praying, and
it's truly in God's Hands. We know it's incurable, but when he finally
does cross over, we'll have a bunch of good memories.

  My late grandmother died of lung cancer in 1993...she went down hill
fast a month before she died. But, she was a real card at times. One
Sunday after church, my parents and her were playing pinochle (my Mom
despised the game). Well, my Dad was studying his cards as if he had all
the time in the world...when, without warning...out of the blue, my late
grandmother exclaimed "Well, s*** or get off the pot!!". I about fell
off the couch I was laughing so hard. :) She also didn't care if the
preacher was standing there...she spoke her mind...much to the
embarassment of my parents!!
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