I've never been much of a juggler.  Not very coordinated on this end.  I like to pretend I have grace and coordination....um, its all a roose.  Fortunately I'm not juggling eggs, no china plates, no bowling pins or juggling pins.  Just been trying to juggle calendars and appoitnments.  Juggling Roger's calendar, my calendar - home, personal, work, etc Suffice to say, per my prior statement, good thing I'm not juggling anything like eggs or china.  It would NOT be pretty. 

As I sit here yawning while entering his post, Roger is dozing on and off across from me.  Next to him is his IV pole and on it are two bags of hydration - one with a salt solution and the other with a sugar solution.  We started the drip at 8:00.  I anticipate we won't finish until closer to midnight.  A necessary evil.  He does much much better when he is  NOT dehydrated. So we infuse when we can.  Should've started earlier....shouldda wouldda couldda.  Oh well.  Whats a little more exhaustion. 

Roger has had a couple very rough nights.  He has another new pain this time in his back.  The pain is in his right shoulder blade area and now has also spread to his left shoulder blade.  He describes it as an ice pick in his back.  No amount of baths, heating pads, ice packs, angie-massages,  or even prescribed pain killer  - nothing seems to help alleviate the pain.  He can go to bed heavily influenced by Ambien but wakes around 2:00 with terrific pain.  So we shift his pillows around him and the bed, he takes more pain killer and tries to sleep.  We have also tried moving him to the recliner in the room.  NOTHING seems to alleviate the pain.  Fortunately we have an appt this Thursday with the pain doctor.  (back to my inability to juggle....we are double booked for doctors' appts on Thurs...aslo supposed to meet with the ear nose throat doc too....aint I awesome with juggling??).  Hoping.  Desparately hoping the pain doc will have an idea.  In the meantime, trying to get Roger in to see a massage therapist to see if she/he (Roger would prefer a she...go figure) can help.

Thats all I've got for now.  Need to get the bandages etc ready for when I disconnect the fluids from Roger.  Will try to report back tomorrow with a fun thing  we did.  It was laced with all kinds of fear and apprehension but it was truly an awesome moment.  But for now, I need to do a couple thing before I disconnect Roger from the fluids.  Good night to all.  Sending you our love through the wires.  a &  r