Sunday, August 18, 2024
Last Night's Sleep
6 hr 14 min
6 hr 14 min
Today's Forecast
Today: Showers or thunderstorms. Local amount 20 to 30 mm. Wind south 20 km/h becoming light late this morning. High 26°C. Humidex 34°C. UV index 4 or moderate.
Tonight: Showers or thunderstorms ending this evening then cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Local amount 5 to 10 mm. Wind becoming north 20 km/h gusting to 40 this evening. Low 17°C.
RAINFALL WARNING
Rain, at times heavy, is expected.
Hazards:
Additional rainfall amounts of 30 to 40 mm, leading to total rainfall amounts of up to 80 mm.
Rainfall rates of up to 30 mm in an hour.
Timing:
Continuing through today.
Discussion:
Showers and thunderstorms are expected again today. Locally higher amounts in thunderstorms are possible this afternoon and evening.
This weather pattern typically brings rapidly changing conditions between sunny skies and heavy downpours.
Showers and thunderstorms are expected to taper to isolated showers tonight.
For information concerning flooding, please consult your local Conservation Authority or Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry office. Visit Ontario.ca/floods for the latest details.
Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads. Localized flooding in low-lying areas is possible.
Today's Journal
I woke up at 5:45 this morning to very loud thunder and flashes of lightning. We had torrential downpours for the next hour or so.
At 7:00 a.m. I went upstairs to bring Dennis his medications and puffers and the blood thinner needle for the belly, and the cough syrup and the mouth rinse, and then he told me that at midnight last night he started coughing up blood. Well there was only one incident and he said it was about a teaspoon of fresh blood, but there was a clot in it. He didn't tell me at the time. He said he just sat up and waited a while to see if it would happen again and it didn't so he went to sleep. 😳
But the last time he coughed up blood they took him off of the blood thinner, so we thought we better not give him the blood thinner injection in his belly this morning. But I wasn't sure if I should give him the rest of the medication, including the 14 prednisone tablets (70 mg of steroids).
Why do these things always happen on the weekends? So I had to call the after hours number and they had an oncology nurse call me. She agreed that we definitely shouldn't give him the blood thinner injection and she said she wanted to double-check with an oncology doctor and would call me back about the steroids.
She said prednisone would have nothing to do with bleeding so it's very likely that they will have me give it to him but she just wanted to make sure.
So she just called back now and said go ahead and give him all the rest of his medications as usual but no blood thinner today. He normally gets the needle twice a day, 12 hours apart. She said if he coughs up more blood today we should take him to the ER. If not then first thing tomorrow morning I have to call his oncologist and she's probably going to want to check him out at the Cancer Center. Dennis is worried they're going to admit him to the hospital again.
Dennis does not want to go to the ER and he does not want to go back to the hospital. He will definitely fight over this one. 🤕
I'm sure the average person has no idea how all encompassing, all consuming, this cancer stuff is. I don't think most people realize how much actual work is involved. It's more than a full-time job. It's a game of one step forward two steps back and it's exhausting.
From the moment he wakes up to the moment he falls asleep Dennis is thinking about breathing. He's trying to breathe through his nose. He's trying to take deeper breaths rather than his normal shallow breathing. But his nose is often so congested he cannot breathe through his nose. And trying to do so makes him cough. And he's constantly checking his blood oxygen levels because they drop so quickly. Like it's on his mind almost every waking moment.
11:00 am - We just had another little episode of Dennis coughing a bit of blood but he insists it's much less than before, and no need to panic.
However he wants to pretty much lay in bed so that if he does have a blood clot floating around it won't enter his heart. 😳
He will not let me take him to the ER right now because he knows we'll be waiting for hours and hours, so his plan is to take it as easy as possible today and then take him to the ER in the middle of the night tonight after things have quieted down. OMG.
We had a very quiet day. Dennis and I both ended up taking a nap. Dennis intentionally did not move around too much. He did cough up just a wee bit of blood late morning, more of a pink tinge than actual blood. But that seems to have stopped. As long as nothing happens this evening we are just going to go to bed tonight as usual and not go to the ER. We're hoping that we can just hold off until the morning when I call his oncologist and see what she recommends.
Today's Daily Affirmations
* I see the beauty of my journey.
* I let go of the pressure to meet specific milestones.
* I let love guide my decisions.
* I welcome a new beginning.
* I let go of the old chapters of my life.
* Painful memories are quickly fading away from my mind.
* I am in harmony with the process of manifestation.
* I am unlocking a world of growth.
Today's Exercise
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Today's Total Steps:
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