On morning rounds the oncology team said we should try to push Hope a bit and see if we could go home today. She needs to be able to get off the pain pump and eat and drink just enough to take oral pain meds. (They can send her home on IV fluids if needed.) So we turned off her IV nutrition and fluids to see if she would drink and try to eat, and turned down the morphine pump. A few hours later she was in pain, had taken two sips of water, and shown zero interest in eating other than holding a bagel in a death grip while napping.
Morphine and fluids are running again. Some ice water has seemed moderately interesting in the last half hour. We'll try again tomorrow. Still hoping for a few nights at home and to get a few good meals into her before we face Methotrexate Round 2 on Wednesday.
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