Thursday, January 3, 2013

Doctor´s visit

No energy tonight so will be very factual:
The doctor came today to see Helder at home. It was a big relief to have him around and see that someone is taking a good care of Helder. He found that Helder is fighting an infection, probably in the lungs, we got strong antibiotic to help with this. The bottom part of Helder´s lungs are filled in with something and not working, because of this Helder has very little oxygen circulating in the blood, tomorrow we should have the oxygen tank to help Helder breethe properly. The pain is causing Helder more discomfort so the doctor advised to increase the dose of the morphine patches and see if it helps.
Soon after doctor arrived, came also the nurses. It was great to have them all in the same time. Both parts decided to work as a team from now on to keep Helder as comfortable as possible for as long as possible away from the hospital. We will still have to go to hospital in Portimao on Tuesday to see specialist in paliative care and to be registered within the system, but it is more precaution and making sure that we do what is best for Helder. That´s it for now. Goodnight everyone...

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