My excitement turned to disappointment today. Had the nurse and aide lined up to tag team to get Dad in and out of bed. However, he did not want to get up today. "Tomorrow", he said, but it leads to another tomorrow and another one. Also tomorrow I have no one to get him up.
He still is really weak and lethargic. Moving requires a tremendous effort. He has a loose cough and now his upper back hurts he said. The nurse said his lungs are clear so don't know what is going on there.
Trying a new medication to see if he will perk up and want to do something. Just the few days he has been inactive has taken a toll that I don't know can be regained. Praying that he will not have side effects from the new med and that it will work like it's supposed to.
Maybe I'm in denial and the cancer is really causing the decline but to me it seems more likely that it is the inactivity so we are in a catch 22. He has to do some activity to even want to be active. He's becoming dead weight and that is going to be very difficult for me to handle alone so something will have to change and I don't want to think about that problem right now.
