Marti has continued having a good attitude, but there have been some chalanges this week. She has been more tired, having more trouble walking, and sometimes getting dizzy and light headed when standing. She has more trouble finishing a sentence, or thinking of a word, and somtimes just stops and gives up trying to finish. Short term memory is definitely more of a problem.-----Some of this may be due to low blood pressure. She has had difficult to control high blood pressure for a long time and now that she is on so many meds, her blood pressure is low normal, OK for most of us, but not enough for her---plus her labs 2 days ago showed that she was dehydrated. ----so she recieved extra IV fluids yesterday, and her blood pressure meds have been cut in half---it may turn out that she can get off of them completely for awhile.-----She is also having an MRI of the head sat at 3:30 to make sure everything is alright there.-----------She has been eating OK but we are trying to encourage more fluids, not just water--I wish she liked gatoraid but whe hates it for some reason---
Barabra has been here almost 2 weeks and she has been fantastic--it would have been impossible without her, and Marti loves cuddling Luke, too(Barbara's very large Bijon).
I will do another update this weekend, after the MRI--
Love to all our friends and relatives
Bob S.
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