abeswife's blog

Abel had a tough night with pain last night. It was learned about 10 days ago that he has secondary liver pain and blood clots in his lungs. He is taking Lovenox injections 2 times a day. They increased his morphine to 30 mg every 12 hours and if any pain in between to take morphine 15 mg every 4 hours. We had a very quick appt. to go over this with the oncologist and were really quite upset as we were told we would…

Hi: Please excuse spelling errors, just going to wing it with out checking for errors. Abel is scheduled for an appt. tommorow with his team of doctors. I wanted to ask for help on being prepared for this meeting. Quick update on to what has transpired. He was diagnosed in sept with esophogeal cancer and we learned in Oct. that it had gone to the liver and lympth nodes. Surgery was no longer an option and the game plan…

My husband Abel was in a clinical trial for metastasis esophegal cancer. It was a very intense trial. It was to be 6 rounds with a total of 18 infusions. He was to complete the 4th round last week but was experiencing a great deal of pain in what he thought was his liver area. The doctors moved up his cat scans and it was detected that he had 12 spots on his liver. ( that was the wet read) He could no longer finish the…

The house is just about decorated and Abel has put up his village which takes up 2 large banquet tables. He has been playing the Christmas music since before Thanksgiving and for the first time we don't complain about the music. I am really not looking forward to Christmas because all I want is not going to be under the tree! I know I should be more upbeat but its really tiresome trying to remain up and positive with…