Today I spent 10 hours on my feet directing parking lot traffic at the fairgrounds for a gun show. It was only one day, but gives me a little pocket change to have if needed. I have noticed that since starting workout at the gym, I am not as sore from a day on my feet as I used to be. I can tell that, in certain ways, the workouts are having a positive effect. My back is also not as sore and doesn’t hurt on a daily basis as it had even in the recent past. I like these changes. Of course I would like them even more if I could lose the spare tire and drop more weight. My weight, although down 50 pounds from my heaviest, has plateaued at 250 pounds. It doesn’t seem to want to decrease anymore. I suppose it could be explained that I am building muscle which weighs more than fat, but I would just like to see the reading on the scale drop more.
Since I was away from home all day, I don’t have first hand knowledge of how things went today prior to my arrival back home. However, I can report that, mom is still tired and dad does not appear to be declining after his bounce back. One thing to note though, mom is experience much more pain than before. That is worrisome. Unfortunately that is her lot in life now and will be ’til the end. She took said she took a vicodin, but in the back of my mind I was wondering what the prescription instructions were because should should be able to take more. Turns out that I was right. That she can take 1-2 pills every 4 hours as needed. So I gave her another one and let her know that she could take them more frequently. She has been saying she isn’t in pain and today is the first time I have seen her look at me with that pained look and tell me that it really hurts. I am soooo sorry to see her hurting. I know that is what will happen as the cancer gets worse, but I just don’t want it to.
I asked Jason to make dinner tonight because I would likely be home too late to get dinner started at a reasonable hour. I make sure he had what he would need. He made pollo asado burritos and they were yumlicious.
I am so tired. Can barely keep my eyes open now.
Well I think that sums up the day. We shall see what fun stuff tomorrow brings!